News Releases

OTTAWA---Critics of Canada's public pension system are engaging in scare tactics, a prominent pension expert charges. In a new study Pensions Under Attack: What's behind the push to privatize public...
February 14, 2001 | National Office
Urban sprawl is an intensely important issue in Winnipeg that should be controlled, in part, through the use of "smart growth" strategies, a new report published by the Canadian Centre for Policy...
January 23, 2001 | Manitoba Office
(Vancouver) BC's natural gas producers are reaping huge rewards from a hot continental energy market, a new CCPA study shows. "Who's making money on natural gas and what should governments do?" finds...
January 23, 2001 | National Office, BC Office
OTTAWA--"Calls for more openness and public input into communications policy in Canada are falling on deaf ears," say Marita Moll and Leslie Regan Shade, editors of E-commerce vs. E-commons;...
January 18, 2001 | National Office
Ottawa---A patchwork quilt of provincial policies is creating massive imbalances in educational opportunity across Canada, according to an annual report released today by the Canadian Centre for...
January 10, 2001 | National Office
Ottawa – Selon un rapport annuel publié aujourd’hui par le Centre canadien de politiques alternatives (CCPA), la mosaïque des politiques provinciales crée un énorme déséquilibre des possibilités d’...
January 10, 2001 | National Office
(Vancouver) Addressing inequality in BC should be the top priority for the 2001 Budget, the CCPA will tell the BC Legislature's Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services at 4:45pm...
November 22, 2000 | BC 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
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
(Vancouver) The BC Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives co-published a major new study today. Without Foundation: How Medicare is Undermined by Gaps and Privatization in Community...
November 9, 2000 | BC 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
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
(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
(Vancouver) On the eve of the World March of Women and a conference on women's economic security co-hosted by Premier Ujjal Dosanjh and Women's Equality Minister Joan Smallwood, the Canadian Centre...
October 12, 2000 | BC Office