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  • Growing Gap

    Middle class for sale

    A leaked Ontario Progressive Conservative document reveals a deep disconnect between ideologically driven wedge politics and the realpolitik of Ontario’s struggling middle class. The document lays out a provincial election plan for the party that is premised on an explicit attack on workers and a promise to bring in American-style low-wage policies.…

  • It’s a Living

    Hennessy’s Index: A number is never just a number Hennessy’s Indexis a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy, about Canada and its place in the world. Scroll down for a PDF version.  For other months, visit: http://policyalternatives.ca/index 32 Percentage of two-parent families working full-time, year-round in…

  • Gone Fishin’

    Hennessy’s Index: A number is never just a number 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 47 Percentage of Canadian workers who say they need a vacation more today than…

  • Thanks to Wikileaks

    Myth of Canada’s non-involvement in Iraq war discredited “One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.” –Mark Twain, Vice-President, American Anti-Imperialist League. Thanks to a U.S. diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks, a small crack recently appeared in the…

  • Canada vs. the OECD

    Hennessy’s Index: A number is never just a number 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 34 Number of countries with membership in the OECD (Organisation for Economic and Co-operation…

  • Growing a Movement

    Unions need to develop deeper, broader membership activism The 21st century has been a liberating time so far; bumpy, yet liberating. We have seen waves of democratic revolutions in Africa and the Middle East. We have seen popular worker and citizen uprisings against neoliberal extremism in Wisconsin. And we have…

  • Alternative Federal Budget

    Federal budget set to unleash significant program spending cuts: CCPA

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—Monday’s federal budget is expected to unleash one of the biggest assaults on the public sector in Canada’s history, says a new Alternative Federal Budget (AFB) report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). The report gives Canadians a sense of what…

  • You Know You’re Not Alone: Community Development in Public Housing (the report)

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  • Alternative Federal Budget

    Big Train Coming

    Does Canada Really Have a Deficit and Debt Problem? Download 152.5 KB6 pages This CCPA study examines Canada’s debt and deficit and finds that debt in Canada—even after two years of stimulus—is still at very low levels compared to other countries, and compared to the mid-1990s. Big Train Coming: Does…

  • February 2005: OPEC and the Alberta Advantage

    Alberta’s oil riches created by OPEC, not by politicians or CEOs To fully understand oil-rich Alberta’s status as Canada’s most affluent province, and how it achieved that prosperity, it is necessary first to look briefly at the history of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or OPEC. *                 *                   …

  • Stoking the Tsunamis of War and Repression

    Canada’s military exports arm world’s most belligerent nations Finally, after years of delays and just a few hours after Japan’s horrifying earthquake on March 11, the Harper government finally released its latest deeply-flawed report on Canada’s military exports between 2007 and 2009. This timing ensured that the latest data on…

  • Fairer taxes on finance could generate $10 billion annually: study

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—Canada’s financial sector has been the greatest beneficiary of recent corporate income tax cuts, says a study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).  The study, by economist Toby Sanger, says Canada should join other countries in introducing fairer taxes…