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Trade treaties heighten privatization threat to Medicare and health care reform: new study
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Ottawa — Trade treaty rules and proliferating health care privatization are a dangerous mixture that threatens Medicare and health care reform in Canada, warns a…
Trade treaty ‘chill’: New Brunswick abandons public auto insurance in face of trade treaty threats
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA–A study released today concludes that the New Brunswick government should have proceeded with public auto insurance, despite threats from the foreign insurance industry to…
A Step Back
Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation and the Wuskwatim Project CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT The agreement between the Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation (NCN) and Manitoba Hydro over the development of a…
Liberals choose regressive OHIP premiums over real public service renewal
TORONTO–The first budget of the government elected to repair damage created by eight years of Harris/Eves cuts falls far short of what is needed to adequately respond to Ontario’s public…
What can we expect and what can it mean?
A guide to Dalton McGuinty’s first budget CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT TORONTO–The McGuinty Liberals campaigned on promises to reinvest in public services, balance the budget, and to…
Ontario Alternative Budget 2004-05 recaptures public initiative, provides resources to meet Ontario’s needs
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT TORONTO–The 2004-05 Ontario Alternative Budget advocates new investments of $14.7 billion over four years to address the serious decline in the state of…
Report lambastes debt reduction target
Accuses Canada of squandering economic opportunity READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA – Canada is hoarding unprecedented economic wealth while human insecurity – at home and abroad – deepens, says…
New book examines Paul Martin’s record as a guide to the future
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Ottawa–Canadians remember Paul Martin as the man who slew the deficit dragon “come hell or high water. ” He fulfilled that promise by making the…
Martin sits on surplus while Canada crumbles
Scandal camouflage for inaction OTTAWA–The Martin government is hiding behind the sponsorship scandal as a pretext for inaction in Budget 2004, charges the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. The Prime…
New report on Newfoundland and Labrador’s finances released
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT ST. JOHN’S–While Newfoundland and Labrador must face a number of important issues of financial management in the next few years, provincial finances are…
Riding Off in All Directions
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. The debate over Winnipeg mayor Glen Murray’s proposed New Deal for Winnipeg is central to the City’s future. His assertion that the services gap that…
The preventable cancer epidemic
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Cancer has become such an epidemic that 41% of Canadian males and nearly 38% of Canadian females will develop some form of the disease, and…
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