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  • FastFacts: Keeping Them Poor

    Women and the Minimum Wage Download 30.76 KB 2 pages Attachments Audio File: Keeping Them Poor: Women and the Minimum Wage

  • Government Moving Under Radar to Align Policies, Regulations to the U.S.—Report

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—The federal government’s soon-to-be-released foreign policy review will say little, if anything, about one of its most important priorities—aligning its policies and regulations with those of the U.S., says the author of a report—Of Independence and Faustian Bargains: Going Down the Deep Integration…

  • Alternative Federal Budget

    It’s time: $45 billion surplus could fix federal-provincial woes and address poverty, says Alternative Federal Budget

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA — The federal government will have an estimated $45 billion in surplus over the next three years – money that could significantly reduce poverty and inequalities in Canada and lay to rest overheated squabbles over cash transfers to the provinces, says the…

  • Corporate Income Taxes, Profit, and Employment Performance of Canada’s Largest Companies

    Download 239.03 KB6 pages This study tracks 198 companies on the S&P/TSX composite from 2000 through 2009 and finds those companies—Canada’s largest corporations—are making 50% more profit and paying 20% less tax than they did a decade ago. However, in terms of job creation, they did not keep up with…

  • Alternative Federal Budget

    Getting the most bang for our bucks

    AFB technical paper calls for social reinvestment over tax cuts and debt repayment CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—In the lead-up to the 2005 federal budget, debates about the potential uses for the fiscal dividend—debt repayment, tax cuts, or social reinvestment—have intensified. However, if the federal government intends…

  • Climate Justice Project

    Government claims of LNG jobs grossly overstated, not supported by companies’ own numbers

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) A new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives offers a reality check on government claims about massive job creation to come from a BC-based LNG industry. As recently as last week, Premier Christy Clark stated that the Pacific NorthWest LNG…

  • And then there was one: BC is now last province without a plan to tackle poverty

    On October 22, the Government of Saskatchewan announced in their Throne Speech that it would commit to the development of a poverty reduction strategy, making British Columbia the very last province in Canada without a plan to tackle poverty. This despite the fact BC has the highest or second-highest poverty…

  • Hennessy’s Index: December 2014

    Billionaires Hennessy’s Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy, about Canada and its place in the world. For other months, visit: http://policyalternatives.ca/index 1 There is one billionaire for every three million people in the world. 2,325 Number of billionaires in the world in 2014…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    FTAA negotiations stalled, but U.S. negotiating efforts intensifying–study

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT With the January 1, 2005 deadline for concluding a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) over, hemispheric negotiations are at an impasse.  But the U. S. administration continues to aggressively pursue the FTAA model through sub-regional and global negotiations, concludes a study…

  • Education Project

    Our Schools/Our Selves: Summer 2016

    Project: Change If we are as passionate about justice as we are about our ideas, then we need to seriously invest in and support those who are coming into this work. We have to foster new and developing leadership. We need a way to provide people who may not think…

  • Loukidelis did good work for government accountability. Now it’s a legislative committee’s turn.

    David Loukidelis, British Columbia’s Freedom of Information Commissioner has accepted the new role as the province’s deputy attorney general.  Vaughn Palmer did a good column on the switch in jobs but I thought Loukidelis deserved more credit for his ten years on the job. Personally, I think Loukidelis’s leadership was almost completely…

  • Making Women Count

    Gender equality in Canada going nowhere fast: study

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—Progress towards gender equality in Canada has stalled, says a study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. The study, a shadow report on Canada’s Implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, provides a detailed view of Canada’s progress…