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  • September 2004: All Debt Is Not Made Equal

    Economics 101: Public debt is good, foreign investment bad Read the financial pages of our corporate press, or listen to your average political commentary, and you’ll encounter the following standard propositions: 1) Foreign investment is good and should be encouraged. 2) Public debt is bad, and needs to be paid…

  • October 2003: Canadian Mining Companies Set to Destroy Ghana’s Forest Reserves

    Under pressure from Canadian and U.S. mining companies, the Ghanaian government seems ready to pass legislation in June 2003 which will open the country’s protected forest reserves to mining. The companies’ bulldozers are ready to rip apart thousands of hectares of rainforest in the Ashanti, Eastern and Western Regions if…

  • June 2004: The 2004 Elections

    Voters in both Canada and US have crucial decisions to make Back in the late 1950s and early ‘60s, when the CCF and the Canadian Labour Congress were promoting a political merger between the socialist party and organized labour—later to culminate in the creation of the New Democratic Party—I was…

  • 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…

  • Making Women Count

    Gender equality in Canada going nowhere fast: study

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—Progress towards gender equality in Canada has stalled, says a study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. The study, a shadow report on Canada’s Implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, provides a detailed view of Canada’s progress…

  • PEI fiscal situation

    No cause for alarm READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Halifax–A report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) finds that the current and anticipated PEI deficits are manageable and well within the capacity of the province’s finances. Assessing Prince Edward Island’s Fiscal Situation examines the province’s current…

  • May 2003: West Paupans Oppressed by U.S. Multinational

    An interview with John Rumbiak John Rumbiak is a supervisor for West Papua Institute for Human Rights Study and Advocacy (ELSHAM) based in Jayapura, the capital of West Papua province in Indonesia. He toured Canada in November 2002 to promote awareness of the oppression and exploitation of the Papuan people…

  • Labour Matters

    Work Life: “We asked for workers; we got people instead”

    The above quote, by one of Swiss author Max Frisch’s characters, succinctly captures the inherent conflict between employers and workers. Employers want results; they want productivity, machine-perfect timing and energy for the lowest wage possible. Workers want a living wage, benefits, a pleasant workplace, some say over the work process.…

  • December 2003: The Alternative Federal Budget

    AFB shows how a better budget would lead to a better world CCPA staff, research associates, economists and NGO activists are busily at work drafting our Alternative Federal Budget (AFB) for 2004. It will be unveiled shortly before federal Finance Minister John Manley tables his official budget in February. The…

  • Ten areas of regulatory failure that contributed, directly or indirectly, to the Lac-Mégantic disaster

    My report, Willful Blindness?, released today, summarizes the regulatory failures behind the Lac-Mégantic tragedy. The federal government has so far not acknowledged any culpability or responsi My report, Willful Blindness?, released today, summarizes the regulatory failures behind the Lac-Mégantic tragedy. The federal government has so far not acknowledged any culpability or…

  • New report chronicles regulatory failures behind Lac-Mégantic

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—In advance of tomorrow’s Transportation Safety Board (TSB) final report into why a train loaded with crude oil crashed and killed 47 people in Lac-Mégantic, Québec just over a year ago, a new Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) report details eight key…

  • Piqued by Piketty

    It seems rather clear that the main theories in French economist Thomas Piketty’s best-seller Capital in the Twenty-First Century are irritating a number of people. Recommendations to increase taxes on wealth seem to be the most disconcerting to many. First, the British Financial Times did its utmost to point out calculation errors in a…