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  • New Economy Initiative (MB)

    Social Housing, Neighbourhood Revitalization and Community Economic Development

    Download 578.82 KB32 pages Attachments Research for Communities: Inner-City Housing Programs and Community Economic Development

  • Growing Gap

    Soft landing for Canada’s CEOs

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT TORONTO—Canadians may have been hit hard by a worldwide economic recession, but it appears Canada’s 100 highest paid CEOs are enjoying a soft landing. A report on executive compensation by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), a progressive think tank, reveals Canada’s…

  • Education Project

    La Commercialisation des écoles canadiennes : qui mène la barque

    qui mène la barque? Download 1.76 MB48 pages Attachments Résumé — La Commercialisation des écoles canadiennes : qui mène la barque

  • Education Project

    Commercialism in Canadian Schools

    Who’s Calling the Shots? Download 1.16 MB42 pages Attachments Executive Summary — Commercialism in Canadian Schools: Who’s Calling the Shots?

  • Fast Facts: The case for a national strategy on low income energy and water efficiency

    The vast majority of Canada’s low-income families live in older houses, with inadequate insulation in attics, walls and basements.   While these houses may offer cheaper-than-average rent or require lower down payments than more efficient homes, their upkeep is costlier.   Research by Green Communities Canada (GCC), a national organization which supports…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    Buy American sell-out

    Proposed procurement deal bad for provincial, local governments Despite the Conservative government’s hopes for a quick deal, prospects for an exemption from the Buy American procurement preferences in the recent U.S. stimulus legislation have faded. Unfortunately, the bad news doesn’t stop there. The deal now in the works may actually…

  • April 2004: On Acting Local

    Some alternatives to corporate globalization are already working It’s time to move on from analyzing what’s wrong. Let’s acknowledge that some solutions have been tried–and found working! We now know, as does the WTO, that its principles don’t work, not even for free enterprise and certainly not for the vast…

  • Canada’s Shredded Social Saftey Net

    Our employment insurance system far below OECD average Between October 2008 and May 2009, 363,000 Canadians were thrown out of work – and the OECD projects unemployment in this country to rise to 9.8% in 2010. In this global recession, the weakness of Canada’s Employment Insurance (EI) system has become…

  • The Latin American Revolution (III)

    The U.S. Empire strikes back through a coup in Honduras At 1 a.m. on June 28, Manuel Zelaya, the elected progressive President of Honduras, was roused from his bed at gunpoint by masked Honduran army soldiers, who kidnapped him in his pajamas and put him on a plane to Costa…

  • Spending cuts would kill thousands of jobs and deepen recession

    Report calculates economic and social impacts of limiting deficit during recession CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) In the wake of Tuesday’s Throne Speech signaling major cuts in public spending, a new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) cautions that cuts will only make the…

  • December 2005: The Right to Privacy—A New Oxymoron?

    Our privacy shield is getting badly battered on every front Privacy is an extremely complex human value, but it boils down to the need and “right to be let alone”–to be free of unwarranted intrusions into our daily lives, 24/7. Think of privacy as a cultural and legal shield protecting…

  • Climate Justice Project

    UBC and Canadian think tank receive $1 million to create effective, equitable green policies

    (Vancouver) The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) and the University of British Columbia (UBC) are winners of a $1-million grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) to study the social and economic impacts of climate change and develop innovative green policies. The funding creates the Climate…