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  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    L’AECG mènera à une hausse du coût des médicaments

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT Ottawa—L’Accord économique et commercial global entre le Canada et l’Union européenne (AECG) mènera à une hausse significative du coût des médicaments selon une étude publiée aujourd’hui par le Centre canadien de politiques alternatives (CCPA). L’étude examine les dernières révélations concernant l’accord provisoire et…

  • Say Hello to the Pavement!

    Unions under attack need more effective forms of activism Workers in Canada and around the world have been under assault for decades, but most of our recent tactics to stop the bleeding have been ineffective. If we don’t soon get a lot more of our boots on the pavement, our…

  • Hennessy’s Index: October 2013

    Pseudo Census 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 2010 The year the federal government scrapped Canada’s mandatory long-form census, replacing it with a voluntary survey. It sparked a Save The Census…

  • June 2008: The Forestry Crisis (Part III)

    Proposed market-based “solutions” would only worsen the crisis Part I of this essay provided a brief overview of the crisis in Canada’s forestry sector. Part II focused on outlining a process for developing solutions. This third and final part attempts to provide answers to the most difficult of questions: what…

  • Education Project

    Cost of university education to rise 13% over next four years: study

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—The average cost of tuition and compulsory fees for Canadian undergraduate students will rise by almost 13% over the next four years, from $6,610 this fall to an estimated $7,437 in 2016-17, says a study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy…

  • Hennessy’s Index: September 2013

    Unions 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 1872 The year more than 100 printers in Toronto went on strike. They won the right to a 9-hour work day (down from 12…

  • Quebec’s Budget: Setting the Table for Either a Combative Government in the Face of a Catastrophe or Breathing a Sigh of Relief

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  • Percentages are cold comfort to Atlantic Canada

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Halifax- Atlantic Canadians deserve to know how many federal jobs will be cut in their region, their province, and their community. They also deserve to know how these job cuts will affect the delivery of service in their community, as well as how the cuts…

  • Economics for Everyone, Second Edition

    A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism Jim Stanford’s Economics for Everyone has quickly become a standard reference for economics literacy and popular education. Now published in 6 languages, the book is used in higher education, trade unions, and community education initiatives around the world. This new second edition…

  • Canada needs comprehensive energy strategy to address global warming: Study

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA—Canada needs a comprehensive national energy policy, says a study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). The study, by John Calvert and Marjorie Griffin Cohen, finds Canadian energy policy is explicitly driven by private market-based decisions, rather than careful planning by…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    Les nouveaux traités commerciaux mettent en danger la réglementation des pêches

    CLIQUEZ ICI POUR CONSULTER LE RAPPORT. Ottawa – L’Accord économique et commercial global (AECG) proposé entre le Canada et l’Union européenne et d’autres traités sur le commerce et l’investissement menacent la viabilité des pêches et des collectivités de pêcheurs, selon un nouveau rapport du Centre canadien de politiques alternatives (CCPA). La mondialisation,…

  • Why Unions Really Matter

    Labour solidarity key to quelling austerity, neoliberalism Fiscal austerity is a neoliberal economic policy the political purpose of which is to erode the power of — if not destroy — the working class through the reduction of the workforce and the suppression of wages and benefits in the interests, ultimately,…