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Canadian Military Spending 2010-11
Download 326.96 KB 11 pages This study examines Canada’s military spending and finds it is higher now than at any time since the end of…
The Shadow Public Service
The swelling ranks of federal government outsourced workers Download 517.03 KB28 pages If the federal government wants to get serious about spending controls, it needs…
La fonction publique fantôme
Le nombre de travailleurs contractuels ne cesse d’augmenter au gouvernement fédéral Download 550.97 KB30 pages
Fast Facts: Economic and Fiscal Priorities
We need to get them right In recent months the Manitoba branch of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation has been calling for immediate action to eliminate…
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…
Fast Facts: Let’s Make Poverty Reduction a Priority
In Nova Scotia, 75,000 people—including children, people with disabilities, seniors, parents, and single people— live in circumstances that compromise their health because they are deprived…
Fast Facts: Facts, Principles, and Priorities in Government Budgets
Nova Scotians are again invited to help the provincial government “return to balance”, i.e., reduce the province’s deficit and debt. We are reminded that “if…
Fast Facts: Curbing public largesse to corporations in times of economic restraint
Finance Minister Graham Steele is asking Nova Scotians to pull in their belts to help the government overcome the deficit and pay down the debt.…
Death of the Tiger: A Cautionary Irish Tale
The Irish people go to the polls on February 25. The governing Fianna Fail party—that created the fallen Celtic Tiger economic model and is now…
Why Governments Can Safely Ignore Hunger
Corporate food charity keeps hunger off political agenda Over the past 30 years, Canadians have increasingly been led to believe that community compassion expressed through…
No Excuse for Inequality
Canada can easily afford to create a truly just society Five years ago, I went looking for statistical proof that poverty in Canada was inexcusable…
Inequality
Hennessy’s Index: A number is never just a number Hennessy’s Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy, about Canada…
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