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  • Nova Scotia Alternative Budget

    Fast Facts: Curbing public largesse to corporations in times of economic restraint

    Finance Minister Graham Steele is asking Nova Scotians to pull in their belts to help the government overcome the deficit and pay down the debt. It is only fair, therefore, that corporations who have been the recipients of government largesse be expected to go on a diet as well. Government…

  • Low income earners in Nova Scotia need a raise

    It’s time for Nova Scotians working for the minimum wage to get a big raise.  A substantial increase in the wage will go some way to addressing poverty experienced by  low income workers and households in Nova Scotia.  It would stimulate the provincial economy and contribute to productivity growth at…

  • CCPA researchers evaluate BC’s health care restructuring

    (Vancouver) The CCPA has published a policy brief called “Health care restructuring in BC.” It considers the implications of the provincial government’s plan for health care reorganization, announced on April 23, 2002. The report’s three co-authors, Sylvia Fuller, Colleen Fuller and Marcy Cohen, are available for interviews. Sylvia Fuller, the…

  • The public interest in a maze

    Canada, patents, and the Harvard Mouse Look up “patent” in your dictionary and you’ll find “plain and evident” among its definitions. But because patents seethe with contradictions, questions surrounding them are hardly plain, and their answers hardly evident. Patents shrink one public domain (by granting exclusionary rights to inventors) while…

  • Resource Economics Project (BC)

    Jobs vs. the Environment: Do We Have to Make a Choice?

    Keynote Address Given at a Sunshine Coast Public Forum I am glad to be talking to you today about the jobs vs. the environment dilemma because a major focus of my job is trying to resolve this dichotomy. I work with an advisory group of people who are from the…

  • State of the Inner City 2009

    It takes all day to be poor Download 2.46 MB51 pages “What most people just don’t get,” she stated, “is that it takes all day to be poor.” Those words, spoken by one of CLOUT’s member representatives, have taken on a life of their own. Its simple, but profound message…

  • Public Interest Research Project (BC)

    Policy Brief Re: Women’s Economic Equality Strategy

    Introduction The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) is an independent, non-profit research institute dedicated to producing and promoting economic and social policy research of importance to Canadians and British Columbians. Our activities support the efforts of individuals and organizations working towards social, economic, and environmental justice. We appreciate this…

  • A whole lotta waste goin’ on

    Last week, research I completed for the CCPA was released suggesting that in the last five years alone the forest industry in this province has managed to leave 17.5 million cubic metres of usable wood behind at logging operations. Loaded onto logging trucks, you could fill a cross-Canada convoy just…

  • GTA working poor need pay hike: Study

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT TORONTO – In Canada’s most expensive urban area, Ontario’s minimum wage falls far short of what families need for a decent standard of living, says the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. The study, A Living Wage for Toronto, estimates two working parents raising…

  • What’s wrong with traditional schools?

    For some, things just seemed better in previous times. Teachers stood in front of the class and taught. Students sat in rows and were polite (mind you, far fewer of them graduated). Schools didn’t have to deal with complex social issues. Recently, a simplistic solution appears to be for like-minded…

  • Growing Gap

    Growing Gap, Growing Concerns: Poll

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT TORONTO – A record high number of Canadians think Canada’s gap between rich and poor is growing – and it’s causing them concern, according to an Environics Research poll conducted for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). The poll reveals three-quarters (76%)…

  • Trade treaties heighten privatization threat to Medicare and health care reform: new study

    Ottawa — Trade treaty rules and proliferating health care privatization are a dangerous mixture that threatens Medicare and health care reform in Canada, warns a new study published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Canada’s trade treaty commitments could make health care commercialization a one-way street, not easily reversible…