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Fast Facts: Housing Improvement Zones
A focused and grassroots approach to housing development On March 10, 2011, the Standing Committee on Property and Development recommended a move of $500,000 from…
This or That
Budgets are about choices. What would you choose? Budgets are about choices, they reflect a government’s values and priorities. With a $250 billion federal budget,…
Fast Facts: Manitoba’s Economic Indicators
The facts are more uplifting than the fiction There are those who worry that Manitoba is not performing up to its potential, but they don’t…
Ground fighter jets, make jobs not war: think tank
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) urges Ottawa to address Canadians’ real financial worries rather than sideline…
Federal outsourcing costs untouched despite budget caps: study
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—If the federal government wants to get serious about spending controls, it needs to look critically at its…
Fix carbon tax by ending corporate tax breaks, using revenues for climate action and new tax credit: study
(Vancouver) A new study from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and Sierra Club BC calls on the provincial government to scale up BC’s carbon…
Disaster in the Making
The Quiet Erosion of Canada’s Regulation System Download 3.95 MB6 pages In Canada, regulations adopted by every level of government have historically helped to make…
Feminism FOR REAL
Deconstructing the academic industrial complex of feminism When feminism becomes its own form of oppression, what do we have to say about it? Western notions…
BC Commentary: A Review of Provincial Social and Economic Trends
Winter 2011, Volume 14, Number 1 Download 1.89 MB8 pages Inside this issue: Cuts to Forest Service are too Deep by Ben Parfitt How BC’s…
Harmonization of drug standards may put private profit before public health
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—As Health Canada begins its final consultations on proposals to “modernize” standards on prescription drugs, a study released…
Mortgage financing reform needed to avoid another crisis: report
OTTAWA—In a report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), two prominent economists propose changes to U.S. and Canadian mortgage finance polices…
The Halifax Convention Centre – a bottomless money pit?
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT HALIFAX, NS – The proposed new convention centre has the potential to be a bottomless money pit, cautions…
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