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  • Fast Facts: “Mean Streets” society coming

    The election this month of a majority Conservative government will change Canada’s political landscape in ways that will be detrimental to most Canadians. Cuts to public spending will be severe and will cause much human damage. Deliberately crafted attempts to shift Canada’s political culture will not only make dissent, but…

  • Temporary foreign workers and the election

    A major issue getting scant debate An election should be a time to discuss key policy directions. One of the biggest policy transformations in the Harper era has been the enormous growth in Temporary Foreign Workers (TFWs) –– “guest” workers who come to Canada for short periods, generally tied to…

  • Hidden Montebello SPP agreement on industrial chemicals will weaken Canadian regulation—report

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—Contrary to assurances from Prime Minister Harper, an SPP regulatory agreement signed at Montebello sets Canada on course toward a single North American regime for regulating industrial chemicals that will almost certainly weaken the existing Canadian regulatory system and erode policy autonomy, says…

  • La privatisation : le cheval de Troie des services publics

    Une des principales dynamiques de notre époque est la pression exercée sur les gouvernements pour offrir plus de services publics en utilisant moins de ressources. La population vieillit, l’infrastructure urbaine se détériore et, avec l’immigration et la mondialisation croissantes du commerce, tous les paliers de gouvernement font face à une…

  • May 2007: Canada’s Lack of Affordable Housing

    Rent supplements help, but only if landlords cooperate There are many ways in which money for affordable housing can be put to use. Three key methods are: build non-profit housing; provide housing allowances or rent supplements; and provide tax credits for the developers of rental housing. All three methods have…

  • The Halifax Convention Centre – a bottomless money pit?

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT HALIFAX, NS – The proposed new convention centre has the potential to be a bottomless money pit, cautions a new report being released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives–Nova Scotia. Entitled Convention Centre in Nova Scotia: Economic Wellspring or Bottomless Pit,…

  • Alternative Federal Budget

    Federal surplus evaporating: Think-tank

    Harper plan at odds with Canadian priorities CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA — The Harper government is on the brink of exhausting its fiscal surplus on a pre-election spending plan that is at odds with what Canadians want, says the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. The Centre…

  • Growing Gap

    Canada’s Rich and Poor

    Moving in Opposite Directions Download 832.62 KB 20 pages In a study for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), economist David Green found the gap didn’t grow as much over the 1980s as it did in the 1990s – especially post-1995, following cuts to government transfers and taxes. Both…

  • Growing Gap

    No New Year’s hangover for top CEOs

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT TORONTO – By 12:13 pm on New Year’s Day, while many Canadians were still nursing a hangover, Canada”s 100 highest paid CEOs had already pocketed what will take minimum wage workers the rest of 2007 to earn. The clock keeps ticking. By 9:46…

  • Taxes are good for a nation’s health and well-being—study

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—Canada is falling behind a number of OECD nations in a wide range of social and economic areas, and a study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives points to tax cuts as the culprit. The study, by Neil Brooks and…

  • December 2006: Global Warming, Global Wording

    Most government “action” on climate change just rhetoric There is historical precedent for re-naming the purported Clean Air Act devised by the federal Conservative government. It should be called the Clean Air Procrastination Act. We start by going back to Confucius, who spoke of the need for the “rectification of…

  • December 2006: Calling Premier McGuinty

    Where will all of Ontario’s nuclear waste be stored? Ontarians will go to the polls next October to elect their provincial government. If last September’s provincial by-election in Toronto is any indication, energy policy and ethics will play a major role in the next election. Indeed, the new NDP MPP…