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  • Fast Facts: Throne speeches put poverty on the agenda

    There was encouraging news in Manitoba’s 2015 Speech from the Throne for people working to end poverty in Manitoba. In several areas, the Manitoba government announced a commitment to invest in the social determinants of health. Make Poverty History Manitoba’s top five priorities – housing, mental health, child care, minimum…

  • Growing Gap

    Hennessy’s Index: February 2014

    Perks for the Rich: Income splitting 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 2007 The year Canada’s federal government extended to senior families the opportunity to partake in extra tax…

  • Our Schools/Our Selves Summer 2003

    Private dollars in Canada’s “public” colleges and universities: Who really pays? This spring the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives released its annual guide to Canadian post-secondary education—a study comparing the provinces’ commitment to higher education and ranking them accordingly. This is the fourth year of Missing Pieces: An alternative guide…

  • Labour Matters
    Trade Union Research Collective

    Labour Notes: The attack on unions has now come to Canada

    How do we respond? Anyone who has been keeping tabs on recent developments in what can accurately be called the assault on trade unions and working people in the U.S., Britain, Ireland, and much of continental Europe, knew that it would eventually come to Canada. Well, it’s now here, in…

  • Growing Gap
    Making Women Count

    Le fractionnement du revenu favorise les mieux nantis, selon une étude

    Ottawa – Quatre-vingt-six pourcent (86%) des familles Canadiennes ne bénéficieront en rien du fractionnement du revenu que le gouvernement fédéral entend mettre en place selon une étude publiée aujourd’hui par le Centre canadien de politiques alternatives (CCPA). Cette mesure permettra aux couples de partager leurs revenus entre un conjoint plus…

  • Growing Gap
    Making Women Count

    Income splitting is a tax gift to Canada’s rich: study

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—Eighty-six percent of Canadian families would gain no benefit from the proposed Conservative income splitting plan, says a new study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). The study, by CCPA Senior Economist David Macdonald, examines the cost and the…

  • May 2005: When Profits Get Priority Over Health

    Vioxx disaster exposes the dark downside of corporate rule Testifying before a U.S. Senate committee looking into the Vioxx-induced heart attacks of an estimated 100,000 or more Americans (and probably as many as 10,000 Canadians), Dr. David Graham said that such “a terrible tragedy” could have been prevented. It wasn’t.…

  • Good Economy Project
    Public Interest Research Project (BC)

    Calculating the Living Wage: Webinar for local communities

  • Cornerstone Compromised

    A Critical Analysis of Changes to Special Needs Assistance in Nova Scotia Download 840.38 KB44 pages On August 8th, 2011, the Nova Scotia government made several changes that affect access to special needs allowances under the income assistance system. In the summer of 2012, the CCPA-NS began an analysis of…

  • April 2005: Health and bankruptcy

    Editorial Rose Shaffer worked for nearly 30 years as a nurse in various hospitals in Chicago, where she was covered by health insurance. Then she took a job as director of nursing with a home care agency. Seven months into her new job, she suffered a heart attack and was…

  • Hennessy’s Index: January 2014

    Out with the Old: Words primed for retirement in 2014 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 Austerity Government wage freezes, job and spending cuts are adding to the post-recession…

  • Jumping Off the Wireless Bandwagon

    Canadians perilously overexposed to electromagnetic radiation After three days of hearings on the health impacts of Wi-Fi and wireless technologies, Canada’s Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health released a remarkably timid report — An Examination of the Potential Health Impacts of Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Radiation – last December. Judging from the fact…