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First the party, then the hangover
The 2010 Winter Games are almost upon us. In Vancouver, banners are dropping down the sides of downtown buildings; huge tents are being erected anywhere…
Fast Facts: It takes all day to be poor
The State of the Inner City Report 2009 For the past five years, CCPA Manitoba has conducted inner-city research in collaboration with community-based organizations. The…
State of the Inner City 2009
It takes all day to be poor Download 2.46 MB51 pages “What most people just don’t get,” she stated, “is that it takes all day…
Beyond the crisis
Ten propositions for a resurgence of the progressive movement The Hon. Ed Broadbent was the lunchtime speaker at an Alternative Federal Budget Roundtable held in…
The Case for Economic Planning
Companies plan for the future. Why shouldn’t governments? Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne recently unveiled Chrysler’s five-year operating plan. That a corporation should develop a strategic…
Canada’s Sub-prime Mortgage Time Bomb
Harper government is now the world’s biggest sub-prime lender What do the mid-recession housing boom and the Harper Conservatives’ rise in the polls have in…
The Regina Manifesto is Still Relevant
Adopted in 1933, it’s a Manifesto that could be written today During the Depression of the 1930s, the League for Social Reconstruction (LSR), a progressive…
Planning for Prosperity
What’s Partnership Got To Do With It? Speech Presented to the Strategic Partnership Public Policy Symposium St. John’s, Newfoundland and LabradorNovember 27, 2009 Almost a…
15,000 Nova Scotia children still in poverty
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. HALIFAX, NS – Nova Scotia Child Poverty Report Cards have recorded changes in child poverty since 1999. Each annual card…
The coming austerity
With the Financial Times lamenting the “end of the era of liberalization” and the “death of global free-market capitalism” and Newsweek declaring “we are all…
Canada’s growing gap explained
The income gap between the rich and the rest keeps growing, in good times and in bad. Learn more about it in this video. Canada’s…
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