This detailed statistical review of the 13 statistical graphs contained in the Conservative changebook platform document finds that not one of them conforms to the normal requirements of academic or professional practice.
At least three of the graphs (which illustrate various statistical arguments related to the Conservative platform) present data that is clearly false. All of the others contain major errors in the labeling of variables or axes; internally inconsistent or manipulative scaling of bars and data; and misleading or incomplete references to source data.
Government finance
It’s no secret that British Columbia has a problem with poverty. Many of us do our part and contribute to food drives and other worthy causes. But how many British Columbians realize that poverty is costing us – all of us – a lot more than a few cans of non-perishable food and a new toy donated at Christmas?
A new study released by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has, for the first time, quantified the economic cost of poverty in BC. We estimate that poverty costs the average man, woman and child in BC as much as $2,100 each and every year.
(Vancouver) Governments frequently claim that they can’t afford to take action on poverty, but a new study shows that it’s much more costly to allow poverty to continue and pay for the consequences.
Help change the conversation about poverty:
READ the report or summarySHARE the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd_nkCi-pVoTAKE ACTION http://www.bcpovertyreduction.ca
Despite the government’s stay-the-course rhetoric, the upcoming federal budget will lay the foundation for the most aggressive assault on public service delivery in Canadian history. This Alternative Federal Budget report gives Canadians a sense of what to expect from the Harper government’s first majority budget and the long-term impact it could have on Canada as we know it.
OTTAWA—Monday’s federal budget is expected to unleash one of the biggest assaults on the public sector in Canada’s history, says a new Alternative Federal Budget (AFB) report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).
The report gives Canadians a sense of what to expect from the Harper government’s first majority budget, telegraphing a hard shift to the right.
In the Friday April 8th Winnipeg Free Press, Jim Carr, President and CEO of the Business Council of Manitoba, proposed a new plan for dealing with the province’s infrastructure deficit. He recommended the government add a one per cent levy to the provincial sales tax, which will be dedicated to infrastructure repair and improvements. The 2011-12 Manitoba budget, released a week later, incorporated a version of his recommendation with a promise to spend “. . . the equivalent of one point of the provincial sales tax on municipal infrastructure and public transit.” According to Mr.
Halifax – The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia (CCPA-NS) released a new report today which shows that Nova Scotia students and their families are paying almost three times as much as the provincial government.
The report, entitled Fairness, Funding and our Collective Future: a way forward for post-secondary education in Nova Scotia, shows that the largest part of the cost of a university education is not tuition fees; it is the cost of the income students forgo while they attend university.