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  • Targeting generic instead of brand-name drugs not the best way to lower Ontario’s drug costs

    The Ontario government has recently announced major changes to the way that it will pay for generic drugs. The aim is to rein in rapidly increasing costs for the Ontario Drug Benefit Program. Generics help make public drug plans affordable, but, to get used, they need to be dispensed by…

  • Labour Matters

    Work Life: More than a Dream

    Many of us have, like John Lennon, imagined a world without war, greed, hunger or possessions. There are those rare individuals who insist that we should settle for nothing less, that humankind’s true heart is to live in communities guided by understanding, compassion and social justice. This year May Works…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    The US wants a NAFTA deal this month; Canada should say no

    Lighthizer, Guajardo and Freeland feeling the NAFTA love in April.For the past four weeks, NAFTA negotiators in Washington, D.C., have been working around the clock to reach an agreement in principle before the U.S. and Mexican electoral calendars sideline the Trump administration’s hopes for a speedy deal. Due to the…

  • Comments on the Fair Elections Act (Bill C-23)

    The CCPA was invited to appear before The House of Commons’ Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs to present on Bill C-23, the Fair Elections Act. Patti Tamara Lenard, an Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and CCPA Research Associate, presented…

  • Farewell

    Editor of CCPA Monitor since its inception says good-bye This is the last page 4 column I’ll write as editor of the CCPA Monitor, so I suppose it’s fitting that it take the form of a farewell. I was asked to serve as editor of the Monitor when it was…

  • Farewell

    Editor of CCPA Monitor since its inception says good-bye This is the last page 4 column I’ll write as editor of the CCPA Monitor, so I suppose it’s fitting that it take the form of a farewell. I was asked to serve as editor of the Monitor when it was…

  • Provincial legislature grounds in Edmonton Alberta.

    Five things to know about the 2018 Alberta Budget

    Alberta’s 2018 budget was tabled on March 22, 2018. The official name of this year’s budget is Budget 2018: A Recovery Built to Last. Here are five things to know: This was largely a status quo budget. Total estimated provincial revenue for 2018-19 is $47.9 billion, compared with $46.9 billion in 2017-18.…

  • Fast Facts: It takes all day to be poor

    The State of the Inner City Report 2009 For the past five years, CCPA Manitoba has conducted inner-city research in collaboration with community-based organizations. The purpose of our research has been to chronicle the progress being made and to identify where problems continue to exist and how they might be…

  • Unions are still our best hope

    When it comes to workers and unions there is good and bad news. The good news is that polls show that Canadians’ approval of unions is increasing. Most Canadians think that unions make a positive contribution to society and overall prosperity. And many workers would join a union if given…

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    State of the Inner City Report 2013

    A Youth Lens on Poverty in Winnipeg Download 1.71 MB52 pages Sixteen youth from North and West End Winnipeg were given an important assignment: tell the stories of their neighbourhoods to the rest of Winnipeg for this year’s State of the Inner City Report. The CCPA’s Manitoba office worked with two…

  • Quebec Values Charter: Bad Solution to the Wrong Problem

    It’s near impossible to ignore the current debate regarding the Québec Values Charter. It would seem laudable at first for a society to decide to reflect on its shared values. There is no cause to rejoice in the face of the current debate: it is certainly not the relevant exercise it…

  • 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…