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  • 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: Pharmaceutical Secrecy Endangers Our Health

    Drug research now done mainly to protect profits, not public health Secrecy has always been the norm in the pharmaceutical arena, but over the past decade it has taken on even greater significance as the funding of medical research has swung from something that was done to improve public health…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Resource Economics Project (BC)

    Softwood deal will spur more raw log exports

    The recent vote in the House of Commons ratifying the softwood lumber agreement with the United States may bring temporary relief in Canada’s long running dispute with its biggest trading partner. But it comes at a terrible price, one that British Columbia, the province with the lion’s share of US…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    There’s nothing smart about “smart regulation”—report

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—Federal deregulation—euphemistically called “smart regulation”—poses a serious threat to public health and the environment, says a new report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. The study, by CCPA Executive Director Bruce Campbell and CCPA-BC Senior Economist Marc Lee, warns against…

  • Resource Economics Project (BC)

    Fundamental change needed to save Ontario’s forestry-dependent communities—report

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—The Ontario government must implement far-reaching forestry and hydro reforms if it is truly serious about safeguarding Northern communities and thousands of woodworking jobs, says a new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. “The Ontario forestry sector needs to undergo fundamental…