News Releases
"The Mike Harris Government has its budget priorities all wrong", the Ontario Alternative Budget says.
"Instead of pouring more and more money into pointless tax cuts, attacking public education and...
May 10, 2001 |
Ontario Office In its annual pre-budget analysis, the Ontario Alternative Budget Working Group has a simple message for the Harris Government: "Park the ideology and call off the dogs. Put the corporate tax cuts on...
May 7, 2001 |
Ontario Office TORONTO--Six years of Harris government housing policy, including massive social housing cuts and growing handouts to private developers, has been a dismal failure, according to a technical report...
May 2, 2001 |
Ontario Office (Vancouver) A new study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says that the current debate about addiction is incomplete. Public debate about addiction prevention, treatment,...
April 30, 2001 |
National Office, BC Office OTTAWA--Canadian farmers are struggling with near-record low prices and many face bankruptcy unless the current crisis is adequately addressed by the federal and provincial governments. But...
April 25, 2001 |
National Office TORONTO -- Despite claims by the Harris government to the contrary, health care spending is not out of control in Ontario, says a study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives...
April 24, 2001 |
Ontario Office Washington, D.C. - An evaluation of the North American Free Trade Agreement on its seventh anniversary finds a continent-wide pattern of stagnant worker incomes, lost job opportunities, increased...
April 11, 2001 |
National Office Toronto--The only way the Ontario government can avoid a budget deficit in 2001-02 is to suspend the implementation of further tax cuts.
That's the conclusion of a study prepared for the Ontario...
April 9, 2001 |
Ontario Office The Manitoba Alternative (Alternative Provincial Budget 2001-02), co-produced by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Manitoba and Cho!ces: A Coalition for Social Justice, demonstrates some of...
April 4, 2001 |
Manitoba Office (Ottawa)–Le Centre canadien de politiques alternatives a émis un nouveau rapport aujourd’hui, qui jette de la lumière sur la Zone de libre-échange des Amériques. En l’absence d’une ébauche publique...
March 29, 2001 |
National Office, BC Office (Ottawa)--The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives released a new report today that sheds light on the Free Trade Area of the Americas. In the absence of a public draft FTAA text, "Inside the...
March 29, 2001 |
National Office, BC Office Winnipeg is growing slowly. As a result, Winnipeggers suffer from entirely unwarranted feelings of inferiority, and these feelings are displayed in the way the city promotes itself as a tourist...
March 19, 2001 |
Manitoba Office Ottawa--Canada can afford to extend Medicare to cover pharmaceuticals, and should do so by introducing a national program to cover drug costs, says the author of a new CCPA study.
Dr. Joel Lexchin...
March 15, 2001 |
National Office Ottawa - Selon un tout récent rapport du Centre canadien de politiques alternatives, les entreprises multinationales de messageries s’en remettent aux négociations commerciales et à la procédure de...
March 5, 2001 |
National Office Ottawa--Multinational courier companies are attempting to impose postal policy reforms rejected by Parliament and the Canadian public through the back door of WTO trade negotiations and litigation,...
March 5, 2001 |
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