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On November 18, 2010 CCPA celebrated its 30th anniversary with a conference entitled Advancing Democracy and Social Justice in Canada: The Next 30 Years. Click on the speakers below to watch their talk. Session One: The Erosion of Democracy and Equality in Canada: What to Do
https://soundcloud.com/policyalternatives/the-trouble-with-billionaires-... On November 3, 2010, CCPA-BC sponsored a book launch for The Trouble with Billionaires, by award winning journalist and best-selling author Linda McQuaig and tax law professor and author Neil Brooks. Thanks to Alex Smith of Radio Ecoshock for recording this eye-opening and provocative discussion about the damage that extreme wealth causes to equality and a healthy, functioning society.
https://soundcloud.com/policyalternatives/the-trouble-with-billionaires-... On November 3, 2010, CCPA-BC sponsored a book launch for The Trouble with Billionaires, by award winning journalist and best-selling author Linda McQuaig and tax law professor and author Neil Brooks. Thanks to Alex Smith of Radio Ecoshock for recording this eye-opening and provocative discussion about the damage that extreme wealth causes to equality and a healthy, functioning society.
This generation of rich canadians is staking claim to a larger share of economic growth than any generation that has preceded it in recorded history. An examination of income trends over the past 90 years reveals that incomes are as concentrated in the hands of the richest 1% today as they were in the Roaring Twenties.
TORONTO – Canada’s richest 1% are taking more of the gains from economic growth than ever before in recorded history, says a report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). The Rise of Canada’s Richest 1% looks at income trends over the past 90 years and reveals the 246,000 privileged few who rank among the country’s richest 1% took almost a third (32%) of all growth in incomes between 1997 and 2007.
The recent unilateral decision by the federal government to spend up to $16 billion on the purchase and maintenance of new fighter jets is both wasteful and dangerous. It’s wasteful because our military doesn’t need such extravagant and costly equipment. The arguments for such military aircraft became obsolete with the end of the Cold War over twenty years ago. 
I — along with a whole lot of other British Columbians — have been stewing away about the abrupt end to the BC Rail trial, and the decision to let David Basi and Bob Virk completely off the hook for $6 million in legal fees. Politics of the matter aside, what really gets me is the appalling contrast between this largess on the part of the Special Prosecutor and the government's denial of access to justice to so many other British Columbians.
On November 18, 2010 CCPA celebrated its 30th anniversary with a conference entitled Advancing Democracy and Social Justice in Canada: The Next 30 Years. Click on the speakers below to watch their talk. Session One: The Erosion of Democracy and Equality in Canada: What to Do
Since 1999, Nova Scotia Child Poverty Report Cards have recorded changes in child poverty rates to track progress on the government of Canada’s 1989 promise to end child poverty by the year 2000.  This year’s report card examines the period 1989 to 2008, the year for which the most recent data is available.  It also reviews changes for a later period (1997 to 2008) to assess the impact of the 1998 National Child Benefit initiative, which is specifically aimed at preventing and reducing child poverty.   
HALIFAX, NS –Twenty-one years ago (in 1989), the government of Canada promised to end child poverty by the year 2000. In 2000, not only had they not kept the promise - the child poverty rate was even higher. Today, ten years after the goal date, the broken promise remains.