Regina — A new study from the Saskatchewan Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives shows that corporate leaders in Saskatchewan are positioned to play a major role in shaping public policy in the province, and recommends that Saskatchewan create a lobbyist registry to provide transparency about corporate lobbying efforts.
Corporations and corporate power
TORONTO -- The concentration of power in the corporate sector is perpetuating income inequality trends in Canada, says a study published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).
The study, A Shrinking Universe: How Concentrated Corporate Power is Shaping Income Inequality in Canada, links the rise of the richest Canadians with a shift toward more concentrated power within the country’s largest firms.
(Vancouver) A new study reviews the economic case for the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline (NGP) and casts serious doubt on claims that the pipeline will lead to substantial job creation and other economic benefits.
Enbridge claims that the NGP will create 63,000 person years of employment during the construction of the pipeline, and 1,146 full-time jobs once it’s completed.
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Town at the End of the Road from CCPA on Vimeo.
Remarks by Scott Sinclair to the Columbia Institute’s Centre for Civic Governance “dialogue session” held on June 3, 2011 in Halifax in conjunction with the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ annual conference.
A mid-March report -- A Forest of Blue: Canada’s Boreal Forest, the World’s Waterkeeper -- focuses on the health of our vast northern forest ecosystem, which covers 60% of Canada’s land mass. Issued by the Pew Environment Group (a U.S. organization not without controversy in Canada), the study has nonetheless been endorsed by the International Boreal Conservation Science Panel, whose 14 academics include eight of Canada’s most highly respected scientists, such as Dr. David Schindler of the University of Alberta.
The oil industry in Canada is second to none, at least when it comes to spin. It makes the most creative of Canada’s political leaders look like amateurs.
The latest and most audacious story being spun to Canadians is that the oil industry stands to be hurt by high oil prices; that it finds itself in as tough a spot as Canadians as prices escalate. That’s what we started to hear, not when retail gasoline prices were running up to record levels over the past two weeks, but when prices kept going up at the same time as the price of crude oil was going down.
OTTAWA—Canada’s financial sector has been the greatest beneficiary of recent corporate income tax cuts, says a study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). The study, by economist Toby Sanger, says Canada should join other countries in introducing fairer taxes on the financial sector that could generate over $10 billion a year.