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  • Let’s make day care a great place to learn

    CANADIANS ARE increasingly aware of how important the early years are to the development of children. We know that children’s future educational and career opportunities are influenced by their experiences as young children at home and in the care of others. Unfortunately, I think many of us still view child…

  • Silencing Dissent: The Conservative Record

    Over the past five years, exercise of the fundamental freedom of speech in Canada has been curbed and discouraged by a federal government increasingly intolerant of even the mildest criticism or dissent. Particularly affected have been organizations dependent on government funding which advocate for human rights and women’s equality. Their…

  • Corporate Tax Cuts: Big Costs but No Job Creation

    Today the CCPA released a study that I authored which examines and debunks one of the biggest contentions of this campaign, that corporate tax cuts create jobs.  One of the key reasons cited by the Conservatives for continued corporate tax cuts is that they are needed to encourage job growth. To examine…

  • February 2004: The Vanishing Country (Part III of III)

    After years of kowtowing, our influence with the U.S. is still zilch, Canada is too good a country to let our Americanizers destroy it U.S. President George W. Bush and the U.S. ambassador to Canada, Paul Cellucci, were “disappointed” that Canada didn’t join in the American-led invasion of Iraq. Their…

  • The “Other Saskatchewan”

    A Budget Response by CCPA Saskatchewan If yesterday’s budget was designed to give something to everyone in order to win over voters for the upcoming election, then it is clear where the poorest and most vulnerable in our province rank in the minds of Sask Party electoral strategists. Despite an…

  • Climate Justice Project

    Climate damages litigation could cost Canadian oil & gas companies billions: study

    OTTAWA—Canadian oil and gas companies could be liable for billions of dollars of damages for their contribution to climate change, according a study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) and West Coast Environmental Law (West Coast) that analyzes scenarios in which the legal landscape concerning climate…

  • Nova Scotia Alternative Budget

    Fast Facts: Let’s Make Poverty Reduction a Priority

    In Nova Scotia, 75,000 people—including children, people with disabilities, seniors, parents, and single people— live in circumstances that compromise their health because they are deprived of basic needs such as adequate food, clothing, and housing. Poverty takes its toll on individuals, families and communities, but failure to address poverty costs…

  • Climate Justice Project

    Innovative Approaches to Low-Carbon Urban Systems

    A Case Study of Vancouver’s Neighbourhood Energy Utility Download 546.93 KB27 pages We know that we don’t want to invest in more fossil fuel infrastructure, so what’s the alternative green infrastructure we want? Marc Lee takes a cut at this question with a case study of the City of Vancouver’s…

  • Hennessy’s Index: February 2015

    The Appeal of Middle Class Economics Hennessy’s Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy, about Canada and its place in the world. For other months, visit: http://policyalternatives.ca/index 52% Percentage of Canadians who self-identify as middle class when asked to describe their “social and financial…

  • British Columbia’s largest raw log exporters make pitch to deregulate

    Federal government would do well to resist call by Mosaic Forest Management, before opportunities to process wood in province are further compromised British Columbia’s forest industry was in trouble long before anyone had heard the name of the virus now seared into our brains.  Months before COVID-19 appeared, forest companies…

  • Fast Facts: Canadian Premium Sand Barges Ahead With New Plan

    First published in the Winnipeg Free Press June 12, 2020 During the height of the global pandemic Canadian Premium Sand (CPS) released its plan B for their proposed frac sand mine and processing facility on the east side of Lake Winnipeg. Quite frankly plan B is even worse then their…

  • Resource Economics Project (BC)

    Expansion of industrial salmon farming likely to produce few or no new jobs in BC, new economic study shows

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT Vancouver–A new economic study shows that industrial salmon aquaculture will deliver no or few new jobs in BC, even if the industry doubles in size. What’s more, the industry produces relatively few jobs and minimal economic benefits to the provincial economy right now,…