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Quarterly financial reports show tax cuts continue to bleed treasury, offer little economic gain
Vancouver–The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says the Finance Minister continues to adopt a Paul Martin approach to budgeting, low-balling his revenue estimates in order…
Labour and Social Democracy
International Perspectives On March 2nd and 3rd, 2002, the Canadian Labour Congress, with assistance from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, sponsored and organized a…
Bank of Canada right not to raise interest rates
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA–The Canadian economy has clearly been more robust than the U.S. economy this year, but is now losing momentum, so…
CCPA’s Dale Marshall says no one needs to fear Kyoto
The question isn’t whether to implement Kyoto, it’s how READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. (Vancouver) Dale Marshall, resource and environmental policy analyst with the Canadian…
The issue is not whether to ratify Kyoto, but how
Kyoto naysayers are predicting gloom and doom if the Chretien government goes through with ratification. They’re wrong. The question is not whether we should ratify…
Proposed human rights legislation gets failing grade
For the second time in twenty years, the Government of British Columbia has decided to abolish its Human Rights Commission. If the draft legislation set…
Our Schools/Our Selves: Fall 2002
In the eye of the storm: Ottawa pushes back against school board takeovers The spirit of local democracy is alive and well in the Ottawa-Carleton…
“Free Trade”
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Key Points From the Cabinet Memorandum (Aug 7, 2002) Seeking a Mandate for WTO Negotiations Leading up to the Sep 2003 Summit
The memorandum to cabinet conveys the same PR message that the trade ideologues are giving to the Canadian public: trade is good (no qualifiers); liberalization…
Discovering the Cape Breton experiment
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT Halifax: A paper released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives–Nova Scotia concludes that the Cape Breton…
CCPA-NS report
Canada’s natural gas exports flow out of Canada through an 80% loophole READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. HALIFAX–A publication released today by the Canadian Centre…
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