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  • To address health inequalities, look beyond the role of individual responsibility

    A new report by the Canadian Medical Association provides a timely reminder that money buys better health, even in a country with a universal public healthcare system. A poll commissioned by the CMA found a large and increasing gap between the health status of  Canadians in lower income groups (household…

  • October 2008: Horrendous Health and Environmental Toll

    Downstream from the tar sands, people are sick, dying There’s deformed pickerel in Lake Athabasca… Pushed-in faces, bulging eyes, humped back, crooked tails… never used to see that. Great big lumps on them… you poke that, it sprays water… A friend caught a jackfish recently with two lower jaws… He…

  • The Ontario PC Platform and MC Hammer Pants: Some things really shouldn’t make a comeback

    Social media has transformed political campaigning in the U.S. and in Canada. So perhaps it’s no surprise to find Ontario politicians glomming on to social media themes in a frenzied attempt to make certain outmoded concepts as hip and cool as that Fonzie character all the young people are talking…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    Canada-EU free trade deal could cost up to 150,000 Canadian jobs: study

    OTTAWA—A Canada-EU free trade deal would create a huge trade deficit for Canada, resulting in the loss of up to 150,000 Canadian jobs, says a study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). The study, by economist and CCPA Research Associate Jim Stanford, models three scenarios to…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    Presentation to the Standing Committee on International Trade on the Canada-U.S. Procurement Agreement

    Download 183.35 KB 8 pages This is the transcript of a presentation to the Standing Committee on International Trade on the Canada-U.S. Procurement Agreement made by CCPA trade expert Scott Sinclair on March 16, 2010.

  • Alternative Federal Budget

    Now is not the time for spending cuts: study

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—Given the fragile economic recovery and the weak job market, now is not the time for a sharp turn to spending cuts, says a study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). “It would be a huge mistake to significantly…

  • Beyond Austerity – Trish Hennessy

    CCPA-Ontario Director Trish Hennessy summarized the “Ontario 2013: Toward a Post-Austerity Vision” core message in this two-minute video blog, originally posted on www.ontarionewswatch.com. Beyond Austerity – Trish Hennessy

  • BC can get more bang from cruise tourism and promote stability for port communities

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Vancouver – Recent developments in cruise ship tourism suggest that BC needs a coordinated strategy for developing the industry. Such an approach would ensure ports aren’t played off against each other and help communities maximize the economic benefits of cruise tourism. Playing Off the Ports:…

  • Why Canadians need universal pharmacare

    The current system for buying prescription drugs in Canada is a hybrid system of multiple public and private drug plans. This system is totally dysfunctional, for many reasons. The diversity of drug plans means that Canadians are covered for their drugs according to which province they live, or where they…

  • National pharmacare plan could save up to $10.7 billion a year: study

    OTTAWA—A universal public pharmacare plan could generate savings of up to $10.7 billion on prescription drugs, says a new study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) and Institut de recherche et d’informations socio-economiques (IRIS). The study, by Carleton University professor and Harvard research fellow, Marc-André Gagnon…

  • Making Women Count

    The BC disadvantage for women

    Women in BC may well decide who becomes the next premier. According to a recent Ipsos Reid poll, most are not inclined to support Christie Clark, and this could make all of the difference in the election. There is much speculation about why Clark is having such trouble with female…

  • The End of the H1N1 Pandemic

    The world spent billions on medication and vaccine stockpiles because the World Health Organization cried wolf. If the WHO cannot cleanse its ties to the industrialists hungry for profits in exaggerating the severity of disease in order to sell treatments, why should we ever again listen to anything they say?