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  • Fighting poverty

    Major attitude shift needed The working group on poverty reduction appointed by the provincial government last December released its draft report recently and immediately invoked the ire of activists by insisting on waiting for a year to actually take action to reduce poverty. In an article in the Herald on…

  • Taxes are good for a nation’s health and well-being—study

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—Canada is falling behind a number of OECD nations in a wide range of social and economic areas, and a study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives points to tax cuts as the culprit. The study, by Neil Brooks and…

  • Seniors Care

    Why wheelchair fees are not fair and what they say about the state of seniors care in BC

    The recent announcement of a $25/month user fee for wheelchairs used by people in long-term care facilities in the Fraser and Vancouver Coastal health regions has been unpopular — particularly given the simultaneous announcement of pay raises for top government political staff. Premier Clark has since withdrawn the promise of…

  • Education Project

    Our Schools Our Selves: Summer 2008

    Blurring Boundaries in the Lives of Generation @ While educators look for ways to incorporate a powerful learning medium into their practice, millions of youth are growing up in an online frontier where the social and legal rules haven’t been written yet. At the same time, we are seeing a…

  • Growing Gap

    Canada’s Growing Gap

    The Sleeper Issue of the Next Election? Could inequality be the sleeper issue of the next federal election? A new national poll conducted by Environics Research for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives shows a record-high 76% of Canadians believe the gap between rich and poor has widened over the…

  • The Latin American Revolution (Part XIV)

    Opposition to Canadian mining companies rising in Colombia Canadian companies operating in Colombia are more economically powerful than ever before: they partly own and run Colombia’s largest oil pipeline (Talisman), and they are its leading private oil producer (Pacific Rubiales) and its biggest gold mining company (Gran Colombia Gold). With…

  • June 2008: The Press Vs. The People

    Media ownership in Canada one of world’s most concentrated Lawrence Martin of the Globe and Mail, writing in 2005, noted that the media in Canada have become “concertedly conservative, moving to the right of the people, most strikingly on the question of U.S.-Canada relations (missile defence, Iraq, defence spending, taxation,…

  • Building on the strengths of Uniacke Square

    UNIACKE SQUARE provides 184 units of good quality, affordable rental housing at a time when low-income rental housing is in short supply all across the country, including Halifax. As such, it constitutes a very valuable asset, and should be protected and preserved. Yet forces are at work that place the…

  • BC government warned that new welfare policies combined with slow economy spell upheaval, hardship in communities across the province

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Vancouver – BC’s provincial government received a warning today from researchers who say its package of new welfare rules is radical and unprecedented, and will cause unacceptable hardship and upheaval in communities across BC. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) and the Social Planning…

  • May 2008: The Truth About Canada

    Some truly appalling things we should know about our country The Truth about Canada: Some Important, Some Astonishing, and Some Truly Appalling Things All Canadians Should Know About our Our Country, by Mel Hurtig, Douglas Gibson Books at McLelland & Stewart Ltd., Toronto, 360 pages, $34.99. * * * In…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    Le PTP et l’impact de l’élimination des tarifs sur le commerce canadien

    Download 806.76 KB 28 pages Dans le cadre de cette étude, nous évaluons les avantages et les risques potentiels pour le Canada selon la suppression des droits de douane en vertu du PTP. Grâce à une évaluation approfondie de la quantité et composition des produits d’échanges commerciaux du Canada avec…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    There’s nothing smart about “smart regulation”—report

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—Federal deregulation—euphemistically called “smart regulation”—poses a serious threat to public health and the environment, says a new report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. The study, by CCPA Executive Director Bruce Campbell and CCPA-BC Senior Economist Marc Lee, warns against…