National Office News Releases

OTTAWA—Le système de santé de l’Ontario est menacé par la privatisation insidieuse du financement et des soins, ainsi que par les compressions budgétaires, selon une nouvelle étude, Unsafe Practices...
November 13, 2000 | National Office, Ontario Office
OTTAWA--Ontario's health care system is under threat from creeping privatization and public spending cuts, according to a new study, Unsafe Practices, released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy...
November 13, 2000 | National Office, Ontario Office
What's wrong with privatizing health care? Plenty. That's the blunt conclusion of Health Care, Limited, a new synthesis report on the state of Canada's health care system, prepared for the Council...
November 6, 2000 | National Office
Qu’est-ce qui ne va pas avec la privatisation des soins de santé? Bien des choses. C’est la conclusion tranchante des auteurs du rapport sur les soins de santé intitulé Health Care, Limited, un...
November 6, 2000 | National Office
(Vancouver) The BC office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives released a report today that evaluates a new policy tool's ability to protect our environment. Shifting Ground: A CCPA-BC...
October 26, 2000 | National Office, BC Office
(Ottawa) Federal-provincial negotiations to expand the Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT) should be stopped, according to a briefing paper by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, In Search of...
October 19, 2000 | National Office, BC Office
OTTAWA--An Alternative Economic Update released today shows that between the 1997 election and fiscal 2001, the Liberals will have spent only 2 per cent of the fiscal dividend on social investment,...
October 12, 2000 | National Office
Ottawa–Une mise à jour économique alternative publiée aujourd’hui démontre qu’entre l’élection de 1997 et l’exercice financier 2001, les Libéraux n’auront consacré que 2 p. cent du dividende fiscal...
October 12, 2000 | National Office
(OTTAWA)--Although the economic well-being of Canadian workers has improved notably in the past two years, it remains significantly poorer than before the last recession, mainly because of a sharp...
September 28, 2000 | National Office
Despite the dramatic breakdown of global trade talks in Seattle in December 1999, sweeping negotiations are now quietly underway in Geneva to subject an ever-greater degree of democratic decision-...
September 13, 2000 | National Office
The presence of the Youth News Network (YNN) has disrupted the school community, created a climate of divisiveness, and placed schools in the service of the YNN corporation, according to a report...
July 10, 2000 | National Office
Ottawa--Poverty is still a women's issue - even though people no longer seem to be talking about it. Almost 19% of adult women in Canada are poor. That's the highest rate of women's poverty in two...
April 5, 2000 | National Office
OTTAWA—Tandis que le caucus parlementaire du Parti libéral se réunissait à Ottawa aujourd’hui, une coalition d’organismes nationaux et communautaires lançait un budget alternatif, sommant le...
February 1, 2000 | National Office
OTTAWA--Today, as the Liberal Caucus meets to discuss the upcoming federal budget, national and community organizations released an Alternative Federal Budget, calling on the federal government to...
February 1, 2000 | National Office
Ottawa; January 24, 2000--The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives today released a report, The Missing News, which documents and analyzes recurring blind spots in news coverage by Canada's print...
January 24, 2000 | National Office