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Media advisory: Economic experts available to comment on positive impact of minimum wage raise
TORONTO, ONTARIO – With a business lobby-led economic impact assessment on Ontario’s Bill 148, Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, due out this August, economic experts…
Infographic: Who benefits from Ontario’s $15 minimum wage?
The Ontario government has committed to raise its minimum wage to $15 on January 1, 2019. But who in the province will benefit most from…
Cost to Canada if Trump administration terminates NAFTA would be “modest,” not disastrous: report
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—New research from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives reveals that a potential U.S. withdrawal from the North…
Infographic: The fracking industry is guzzling water, BC First Nations are paying the price
Our latest report looks at the growing concerns that First Nations in British Columbia have with the fossil fuel industry’s increasing need for large volumes…
Fracking industry’s “insatiable thirst” for water in BC’s northeast violates First Nations rights: study
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT VANCOUVER – Coming on the heels of an investigation that revealed fossil fuel companies have built dozens of…
Time to rethink the approval process for fossil fuel industry developments in BC’s northeast
When the provincial government created the Oil and Gas Commission in 1998, it did much more than open a “one stop shop” for speedy oil…
Media advisory: CCPA in Mexico City for civil society NAFTA talks
MEXICO CITY—On the heels of Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland’s visit to Mexico City to discuss NAFTA renegotiations with politicians and business leaders, civil society…
Cut preferential tax treatment for the rich: report
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA – Preferential tax treatments such as tax exemptions, credits, and loopholes have become a cash cow for…
Most of Canada on track to miss climate change targets due to ‘underdeveloped’ policy: report
OTTAWA—Climate change policy in Canada remains underdeveloped and plagued by a wide “ambition gap” between government promises and policy action, according to a new report by the…
Ending controversial political audits, panel recommendations to free up charities “good news for Canadian democracy”: CCPA
OTTAWA—Following a panel’s recommendation to allow charities more freedom to speak out, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) welcomes the federal government’s decision to…
“I foresee serious criminal liability problems.”
It’s time to name and shame the corporate bosses responsible for tobacco-related diseases and deaths. And to legislate.
Black lives matter—at settlement, Confederation and 150 years later
“I am standing in a place filled with monuments for the early explorers, pioneers, and heroic settlers. I cannot help but think that this memorialization…
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