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  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    Fast Facts: The Tough on Crime Strategy Has Not Made Our Communities Safer

    Crime rates in Canada have been steadily declining for more than a decade, yet prison populations have been increasing in recent years. Commentators have attributed this disconnection between dropping crime rates and rising incarceration numbers to the Harper government’s tough on crime strategy. Since 2006 the Harper Conservatives have implemented…

  • July 2005: Peak Oil and the End of Globalization

    U.S. dependence on oil drives its efforts to control what’s left When Paul Martin met with George Bush and Vicente Fox in Texas last March to chart further continental integration (while Martin’s neo-liberal competitor for the Liberal Party crown, John Manley, was pushing for even further subordination of Canada’s economic…

  • TFSA analysis in Budget 2015 does a number on Canadians: report

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—The federal budget’s claims regarding who would benefit from doubling the Tax Free Savings Account (TFSA) annual contribution ceiling exclude key contextual data thereby leading to erroneous conclusions, says an analysis released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). The analysis,…

  • 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…

  • The Monitor, March 2015

    Download 1.54 MB Click the button above to download this issue of The Monitor or click to read a selection of articles below: Bill C-51: A Legal Primer, by Clayton Ruby and Nader R. Hasan How small towns are driving Canada’s digital future, by Cynthia Khoo and Steve Anderson The misuses…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…