News Releases
(Coast Salish Territories/ Vancouver) A report released today outlines for the first time what implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples could and should...
November 21, 2018 |
BC Office EDMONTON – As debate continues to rage over pipelines and the current price differential for Alberta’s oil, a new Corporate Mapping Project report analyzes how the five companies that dominate the...
November 9, 2018 |
BC Office A note of information - November 7th 2018
Contract U: Contract faculty appointments at Canadian universities provides an analysis of the data that 67 Canadian universities provided in response to a...
November 7, 2018 |
National Office OTTAWA – Selon une nouvelle étude publiée aujourd’hui par le Centre canadien de politiques alternatives, les universités canadiennes dépendent énormément des enseignants précaires sur les campus....
November 1, 2018 |
National Office New study examines reliance on precarious jobs on university campuses; Ontario, Quebec and B.C. have contract faculty rates above national average.
OTTAWA—Canadian universities are relying heavily on...
November 1, 2018 |
National Office FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEOCTOBER 23, 2018
OTTAWA—Many Canadians, including dairy farmers, metalworkers and consumers facing higher drug prices, may come to see saving NAFTA Chapter 19 as a hollow victory...
October 23, 2018 |
National Office VANCOUVER - The major investors in Canada’s fossil-fuel sector have high stakes in maintaining business as usual rather than addressing the industry’s serious climate issues, a new Corporate Mapping...
October 18, 2018 |
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OTTAWA—With the country facing significant and unpredictable headwinds going into another federal election year, the 2019 Alternative Federal Budget (AFB)—released today by the Canadian Centre for...
September 19, 2018 |
National Office OTTAWA — Alors que le pays fait face à des difficultés importantes et imprévisibles à l’approche d’une nouvelle année d’élection fédérale, le Budget fédéral alternatif (BFA) de 2019, dévoilé aujourd’...
September 19, 2018 |
National Office VANCOUVER — British Columbia’s Mount Polley mining disaster bears remarkable similarities to a catastrophe at a Brazilian mine the next year and points to the strong possibility of more environmental...
August 28, 2018 |
BC Office TORONTO – Despite their high level of education, credentials, skills, and even experience, 22 per cent of Canadian professionals are in precarious jobs, says a new report from the Canadian Centre for...
August 21, 2018 |
National Office, Ontario Office OTTAWA—Canada’s wealthiest family dynasties are more than 4,400 times richer than the average Canadian family and much more likely to keep that money in the family than they were two decades ago,...
July 31, 2018 |
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OTTAWA—The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) mourns the devastating loss of feminist researcher and scholar, Kate McInturff. CCPA staff, board and partners remember Kate as a feminist...
July 27, 2018 |
National Office OTTAWA—An estimated 776,000 of non-school-aged children (44%) live in child care deserts in Canada, according to a new study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
For the...
June 28, 2018 |
National Office OTTAWA – Une nouvelle étude publiée aujourd'hui par le Centre canadien de politiques alternatives révèle qu'environ 776 000 enfants (44 %) qui n’ont pas encore l’âge scolaire vivent dans un désert en...
June 27, 2018 |
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