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Federal budget task: Fix Canada’s job crisis
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA – Canada faces its worst job crisis in a generation and the federal government needs to step…
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BC’s Shrinking Public Sector
Download 458.2 KB6 pages It is a little known fact that BC’s public sector has been shrinking both in terms of employees per capita and…
Alternative Federal Budget Roundtable: Recession, Recovery and Transformation
Meeting the policy challenges of our time On November 18th, 2009, in Ottawa, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and the Canadian Labour Congress held…
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Buy American deal should be rejected
Government ministers and Canadian trade officials have avoided saying just how much the tentative deal on Buy American preferences is worth to Canadian suppliers. As…
BC Commentary: A Review of Provincial Social and Economic Trends
Winter 2010, Volume 13, Number 1 Download 1.71 MB8 pages Inside this issue: Managing BC’s Forests for a Cooler Planet: Carbon Storage, Sustainable Jobs and…
Fast Facts: We have a floor, now we need a ceiling
Reducing Canada’s income inequalities In recent decades we’ve seen a dramatic increase in income inequality, which has concentrated the gains from economic growth in the…
CCPA-NS responds to budget consultations
In The Shock Doctrine Naomi Klein shows that a perceived crisis can be used to frighten people into accepting unpopular “reforms” as “solutions,” such as…
Visioning Nova Scotia in 2020
Analyzing the current state of affairs in NS and searching for solutions In Nov. of 2009, the Nova Scotia office of the Canadian Centre for…
Taxes and Public Services
Debate over taxes dangerously one-sided and misleading Politics is about choices. But we can’t make effective choices without clarity. And that means we have to…
Equality is the Core Value of Democracy
Stop backsliding, put Canada back on road to equality There has never been a better time in recent history when the core democratic value of…
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