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  • October 2008: Prescription for Trouble

    Government’s links to Big Pharma threat to public health Does anyone remember that the Conservative party, just four years ago, promised to implement a national drug plan? During the 2004 election, with health care a top priority for Canadians, the Conservatives made a commitment of $2.8 billion for a federal…

  • Education Project

    Our Schools/Our Selves: Spring 2003

    The devil in the details: The P3 experience in Nova Scotia schools When the previous Liberal government came into power in Nova Scotia, one of their mandates was to explore public-private partnerships (P3s), particularly in education. Private companies would finance and build a number of new schools, which would then…

  • Hennessy’s Index: December 2013

    2013: Year In Review 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 January 2 By 1:18 p.m. on this date most workers had just finished lunch on the first working day…

  • Taxes: A Conversation Whose Time Has Come

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  • Climate Justice Project

    Study shows power of media to shape public response to climate change

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) A new study from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives looks at how the public responds to different kinds of news media stories about climate change. “Our findings have implications for journalists and editors, as well as NGOs that are communicating about…

  • Overcoming the new Precariat: The future of work

    After years of relative progress in Canada’s labour market – where unionization helped turn jobs like mining and manufacturing into good, middle class jobs – by early-1990s a seismic shift began to unfold. “Jobs for life” were being replaced with concepts like downsizing, the 1990s word for mass layoffs, and…

  • One year after the BC teachers’ strike, what’s happening for kids with special needs?

    A key outcome of last year’s teachers’ strike was increased understanding of the phrase “class size and composition.” The public came to appreciate that teachers were fighting not just for better wages, but for improved teaching and learning conditions. Striking teachers explained how classroom conditions had deteriorated since the BC…

  • New Mining Royalties: Much ado about nothing

    On Monday, the Parti québécois government announced a new mining royalty regime. Its hybrid proposal combines aspects from two types of royalty systems: profit based and ad valorem royalties. In this blog post, we will demystify these ways of calculating royalties in order to best analyze the government’s choice as well as…

  • Economist connects the dots

    Resolution of decade-long constitutional debate behind health care talks CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (OTTAWA) Of the three competing visions for health care that are on the table — proposed by Senator Michael Kirby, Roy Romanow, and the provinces — only one will end up defining the direction…

  • Growing Gap

    Good for Canada

    We already know that the costs of inequality are high: poverty, unemployment, housing insecurity, poorer health and well-being.  But what if we invested in the things that could solve income inequality? Given sufficient political will, a federal government has the ability to make a more resilient, healthier, safer, more equal…

  • Education Project

    Erika Shaker: Scapegoating youth in the war on progress

    In July 2013, Erika Shaker, Director of CCPA’s Education Project, was invited to deliver a lecture at the 2013 Summer Institute—an intensive, two-week, interdisciplinary workshop that invites undergraduate, graduate, postdoctoral fellows or doctoral recipients with an interest in youth-related research to work collaboratively with major researchers and public intellectuals to generate new…

  • Hennessy’s Index: November 2013

    Wal-Mart or Costco? 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 $19.3 million Compensation Wal-Mart’s CEO received in 2012. [Source] $10.11 Average hourly Wal-Mart pay for a full-time worker in the…