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  • April 2004: Cutting Health-Care Down to Size

    We need to learn that good health requires more than good medicine Health-care practitioners with their treatment and advice loom large in the subject of health, but in fact their activity is only one of many other factors that contribute to the level of our well-being. Health-care practitioners have seldom…

  • November 2003: The Vanishing Country (Part I of III)

    It’s not too late to preserve Canada as an independent country The subtitle of my book The Vanishing Country, published a year ago by McLelland & Stewart, is Is it too late to save Canada? I personally don’t think it’s too late, but even some great Canadian nationalists such as…

  • Canada’s secret constitution

    NAFTA, the WTO, and the end of sovereignty? READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Canada’s sovereignty has been undermined by the international agreements the federal government has entered into with the World Trade Organization (WTO), and with the United States and Mexico in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)–so much…

  • Proposed human rights legislation gets failing grade

    For the second time in twenty years, the Government of British Columbia has decided to abolish its Human Rights Commission. If the draft legislation set out in Bill 53 passes, the Commission will be erased again, this time in the name of providing British Columbians with a new, more efficient…

  • Pensions Under Attack

    What’s Behind the Push to Privatize Public Pensions Download 74.53 KB Will privatizing public pension plans spell disaster for the elderly, or is it a bold idea for coping with rising costs? Major changes to the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) were made in 1998. Most likely on future agendas will be…

  • 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…

  • Public Interest Research Project (BC)

    CCPA calls for government action to improve the lives of women in British Columbia

    (Vancouver) On the eve of the World March of Women and a conference on women’s economic security co-hosted by Premier Ujjal Dosanjh and Women’s Equality Minister Joan Smallwood, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is calling for immediate government action to improve the lives of women and their families in…

  • Public Interest Research Project (BC)

    Government action is needed to achieve women’s equality

    On October 15, women, children and men will take to the streets in more than 140 countries in the World March of Women. Marchers will demand an end to poverty and violence against women. On the eve of the march, Premier Ujjal Dosanjh and Joan Smallwood, Minister of Women’s Equality,…

  • Ontario’s Bill 74

    Clawing back democracy Bill 74 is the most recent step in the Ministry’s goal of centralizing control and decentralizing responsibility in education–so long as the carrying out of those responsibilities is in accordance with Ministry demands. This is all about improving the “quality,” and “accountability” of education, according to the…