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May 2006: Mending Medicare: Analysis and Commentary on Canada’s Health Care Crisis
Special 24-page supplement Download 730.87 KB Mending Medicare appeared as a special 24-page supplement in the May 2006 issue of The CCPA Monitor, the CCPA’s…
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…
CCPA-NS Newsletter
Spring 2006 Download 59.4 KB 4 pages
Budget timing opens the door to manipulation, warns Ontario Alternative Budget
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. TORONTO—Despite all of Dalton McGuinty’s talk about taking politics out of budgets, the McGuinty government’s announcement to bring down its…
Canada’s energy security in jeopardy
Time for the Harper government to bring in a made-in-Canada energy strategy: Report READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA—A report on the Athabasca tar sands…
2006 BC Budget creates credibility deficit
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. VANCOUVER – The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says the provincial government is once again low-balling revenues, understating 2006/07’s projected…
CCPA-NS Newsletter
Fall 2005 Download 166.58 KB 5 pages
Action plan shows more stable future for forest communities is possible
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. VANCOUVER–A study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says there is no shortage of solutions available to…
CCPA-SK organizes Citizens’ Budget Commission
The Saskatchewan government appointed a commission to review business taxes in Saskatchewan earlier in the year. This Business Tax Commission will release its report on…
Alternative Federal Budget decodes the spin, provides a guide to the Economic and Fiscal Update
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA—Monday’s Economic and Fiscal Update is animated more by politics than economics. In the present political circumstances the temptation for…
CCPA forecasts large surpluses ahead, calls for increased transparency
OTTAWA—In its presentation to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance today the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives announced that Canadians can continue to…
Canada’s high-income earners are not overtaxed—report
OTTAWA—Despite recent reports to the contrary, Canada’s high-income earners do not pay a disproportionately large share of personal income tax. A new analysis by Prof.…
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