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  • Special essential services legislation not in our best interest

    It’s hard to argue with the notion that education is critically important. So it’s not surprising that many families greeted the introduction of special legislation making education an “essential” service this week with positive reviews. After all, our education system is an important public program that no one wants to…

  • Economic Security Project (BC)

    Ground-breaking study follows BC welfare recipients for two years

    Reveals welfare rules and rates cause disturbing harm to most vulnerable CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) A ground-breaking study that for two years followed British Columbians living on welfare paints a disturbing picture of how people are forced to make ends meet under new welfare rules and…

  • 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…

  • Nova Scotians subsidizing minimum wage employers: report

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT HALIFAX: Nova Scotia has not had a real minimum wage increase in more than 20 years, according to a report release today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Nova Scotia (CCPA-NS).  “Time for a Real Raise: The Nova Scotia Minimum Wage,”…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    Time to draw a line in the sand on the softwood lumber dispute—report

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—It’s time to play hardball with the US Administration on the long-running softwood lumber dispute, says a report released today by the CCPA. The report, entitled Time to Draw a Line in the Sand: NAFTA and the Softwood Lumber Dispute by CCPA Executive…

  • Government Moving Under Radar to Align Policies, Regulations to the U.S.—Report

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—The federal government’s soon-to-be-released foreign policy review will say little, if anything, about one of its most important priorities—aligning its policies and regulations with those of the U.S., says the author of a report—Of Independence and Faustian Bargains: Going Down the Deep Integration…

  • Alternative Federal Budget

    Getting the most bang for our bucks

    AFB technical paper calls for social reinvestment over tax cuts and debt repayment CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—In the lead-up to the 2005 federal budget, debates about the potential uses for the fiscal dividend—debt repayment, tax cuts, or social reinvestment—have intensified. However, if the federal government intends…

  • Follow the money, or risk squandering billions of public dollars on for-private health care–report

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA–If health-care activists don’t scrutinize where the recently announced over $41 billion in health-care spending is going, it could make the money squandered in the federal sponsorship scandal look like loot bags at a one-year-old’s birthday party, says the author of a new…

  • New formula and multi-year financial commitment required to address Ontario’s education funding gap–report

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT TORONTO–While the commitments to education announced by the McGuinty government represent a real improvement over previous years of cuts, a study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives concludes that several years of additional funding on the same scale will be…

  • December 2006: Power to the People (in Suits)

    New kind of business lobby ominous threat to democracy Last June, “the three amigos”—the name the press gave the leaders of Canada, Mexico and the U.S. because they were meeting in Mexico at the time—launched the North American Competitiveness Council (the NACC). The NACC, described in government press releases as…

  • December 2006: Inequality and Icarus

    What’s inequality got to do with global warming? A lot Recent statistics from the United Nations on the distribution of the world’s wealth tell us that the number of people with financial assets of $30 million or more has soared to 85,400, an increase of more than 10% over the…

  • December 2003: The Vanishing Country (Part II of III)

    Personal incomes rise much more slowly in free trade years The noted Canadian economist Pierre Fortin tells us that, “during the 1990s, Canada’s aggregate economic performance has been the worst since the great depression, and very nearly the worst among all industrial countries.” For those of you who might think…