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  • Making Women Count

    The best and worst cities in Canada to be a woman in 2017: Study

    OTTAWA—A new study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) uncovers the best and worst cities to be a woman in Canada. Victoria ranks highest, while big gaps in income and employment leave Windsor in last place for the second year in a row. The report, by…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    Trans-Pacific Partnership hides significant health costs, according to two new studies

    OTTAWA – As Canada prepares to sign the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in New Zealand this week, two new studies from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) reveal significant risks and high public costs to the Canadian health care system within the text of the agreement. The TPP would require…

  • A bad time to be poor

    Welfare (social assistance) is a critical element of our social safety net. It is an expression of social solidarity–one of the ways we have chosen to look after each other as members of a community. Yet in recent years, welfare has been a favorite target for many budget-cutting provincial governments.…

  • Corporate Mapping Project

    Oil Politics in the Patch

    Climate Change Resistance and Cultures of Silence CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT Regina — In the wake of “The Price of Oil” investigation into oil industry impacts in Saskatchewan by the Toronto Star, National Observer and Global News, the realities of living with the health and environmental effects…

  • November 2008: The Worst Time For the Worst Government

    Canadians need a rebuilt welfare state, not a broken one Ralph Nader, the famous American consumer advocate and perennial presidential candidate, writing recently in The Nation, recalled sitting at the family dining table when he was growing up and listening to his father talk about capitalism and socialism. “Capitalism will…

  • October 2008: Health Canada and Drug Safety

    More people exposed to unsafe drugs before withdrawal Evaluating the safety of prescription drugs prior to approval and monitoring their safety once they have been marketed should be a major priority in any drug regulatory system. Over the past two decades, about 3-to-4% of the drugs approved by the Therapeutic…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    Ratifying CETA – Easier Said than Done

    This commentary is available in French. The majority of Canadians never supported former Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s aggressive brand of neoconservativism. In the October election, they were determined to unite behind the opposition party with the best chance of defeating the Conservatives. This desire for change coalesced around Justin Trudeau’s…

  • Corporate Mapping Project

    Oil sands ‘Big Five’ making billions despite oil price crash and pipeline delays, new report shows

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT EDMONTON – As debate continues to rage over pipelines and the current price differential for Alberta’s oil, a new Corporate Mapping Project report analyzes how the five companies that dominate the oil sands sector have fared during the recent boom-bust commodity cycle. “Despite…

  • All social and economic problems caused by an unfair distribution of wealth

    “The world holds enough to satisfy everyone’s need,” Mahatma Gandhi once observed, “but not everyone’s greed.” In these few words he identified the main cause of most of the world’s social and economic problems–and also pointed to their obvious solution. Poverty, hunger, homelessness, illiteracy, preventable disease, polluted air and water,…

  • Corporate Mapping Project

    Canada’s fossil-fuel sector controlled by a few major players—including the five big banks, new study shows

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. VANCOUVER – The major investors in Canada’s fossil-fuel sector have high stakes in maintaining business as usual rather than addressing the industry’s serious climate issues, a new Corporate Mapping Project study reveals. “Substantial ownership and strategic control of Canada’s fossil fuel industry are in the…

  • The loss of a kind and powerful person – Sandy Cameron

    We at the CCPA are saddened by the recent death of Sandy Cameron. Sandy was one of the kindest and most thoughtful people I’ve ever met. And he was a powerful person — not in the sense of formal power, but in the sense of inspiring others through his words…

  • Pénurie ou pas, le Canada est tenu de maintenir ses exportations de gaz naturel et de pétrole vers les États-Unis

    CLIQUEZ ICI POUR CONSULTER LE RAPPORT. EDMONTON – En vertu de l’ALÉNA, même si le Canada est confronté à une pénurie en gaz naturel et qu’il importe 49 % du pétrole qu’il consomme, il lui est défendu de diminuer ses exportations actuelles de pétrole et de gaz naturel vers les…