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Budget Savings on the Backs of the Poor
Who Paid the Price for Welfare Benefit Cuts in BC Download 585.47 KB 4 pages Attachments A Better Way to Set Welfare Rates Welfare rates…
CCPA calls on province to raise welfare rates
Arbitrary cuts, inflation have driven down benefit rates by 30% since mid-90s READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Vancouver – The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives…
A call for accountability at the Ministry of Employment and Income Assistance
The government has now been decisively called to account for its harmful policy choices at the Ministry of Children and Families. Justice Ted Hughes confirms…
McGuinty government fails vulnerable citizens
Look through the smokescreen created by Premier Dalton McGuinty’s $23 billion gap campaign and you see a provincial government that is in denial; one that…
What would they cut to pay for a tax cut in Nova Scotia?
In the runup to Rodney MacDonald’s first budget, business lobby groups are pushing for more tax cuts. The Canadian Federation of Independent Businesses (CFIB) has…
CCPA-NS Newsletter
Spring 2006 Download 59.4 KB 4 pages
FastFacts: The High Cost of Tax Cuts
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Ontario Alternative Budget 2006-7
We Can’t Afford Poverty Download 123.68 KB60 pages Attachments Ontario Alternative Budget 2006-7: We Can’t Afford Poverty
We can’t afford poverty
Complacency is not acceptable, says Ontario Alternative Budget CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT TORONTO— The Ontario Alternative Budget for 2006 released today by…
Who will benefit from the GST cut?
Imagine a tax cut that you only get when you buy stuff. The more you spend, the more you get from the tax cut. Skill…
April 2006: Americanizing the Restriction of Canadians’ Rights
Security overtaking trade as driver of “deep integration” At the time the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and later the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)…
April 2006: The False Gods of Public Education
Our flawed school system in need of fundamental changes As a teacher and researcher in Ontario and abroad for 50+ years, I have come to…
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