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  • Economic Security Project (BC)

    The time is now for a legislated poverty reduction plan

    200 community organizations & leaders to BC political parties CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT On February 5, the CCPA’s BC Office joined with 200 other organizations from across the province as signatories to an open letter calling for a legislated poverty reduction plan. Together these groups launched a…

  • Self-employed workers deserve social benefits

    In Canada, about 2.5 million people (approximately 15 per cent of the labour force) are classified as “self-employed.” Nova Scotia has about 31,000 (12 per cent.) Trend lines show the proportion of such workers has risen steadily in the past three decades, with some spikes in bad economic times. It’s…

  • Free trade has failed to live up to its promises—study

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA— Twenty years after Canada signed the Free Trade Agreement its biggest boosters have grown wealthier but promises ofbetter jobs and rising living standards fell short, says a study released by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. The Canada-US Free Trade Agreement was…

  • December 2007: The Environmental Keynesian Alternative

    Environmental crisis calls for World-War-II-type collaboration As people become ever-more aware of climate change and ecological crisis, they are worried, anxious, and looking for solutions. Forgive me if I’m a heretic, but I think the time has passed for telling them to change their behaviour and their lightbulbs, claiming that…

  • 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: 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…

  • 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…