National Office Updates

Changes to U.S. and Canadian mortgage finance polices are necessary in order to prevent a future financial crisis, say two prominent economists. In What Can Be Learned from the Financial Crisis in...
December 16, 2010 | National Office
CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan writes in today's Globe and Mail about how "economists on both sides of the political spectrum point to an unsettling truth" about the federal government's...
December 8, 2010 | National Office
The most recent Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) publication surveyed those implementing infrastructure projects to see what effect those projects had on unemployment (among other things).  The...
December 7, 2010 | National Office
The Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) has continued to release analysis on spending from the Infrastructure Stimulus Fund adding much needed transparency despite the general lack from the federal...
December 3, 2010 | National Office
A major report by CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan shows Canada's richest 1% enjoy more of the gains from economic growth than ever before in recorded history. The report looks at income trends...
December 1, 2010 | National Office
For 30 years, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has been advancing alternatives to a neoliberal agenda that has resulted in growing income inequality, a middle class under siege and...
November 26, 2010 | National Office
A new CCPA report analyses the financial and human costs of the Harper government's tough on crime agenda and concludes it is wrong-headed, expensive, and counter-productive. In fact, it will likely...
November 16, 2010 | National Office
Although at the periphery of federal budget debates, transfers the provinces were put in focus again this week.  The Chretien government with Paul Martin as finance minister put Canada through the...
November 12, 2010 | National Office
As CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan writes in today's Globe and Mail, the UK government is trying to cram through the biggest public spending cuts in its history. We’ve seen the movie and it...
November 12, 2010 | National Office
Today (at 12 p.m. ET) the globeandmail.com will host CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan (pictured below) and private clinic surgeon Dr. Brian Day for a live discussion on the question: Should...
November 7, 2010 | National Office
The Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) yesterday released its assessment of the federal government's October economic update.  In its October update, the government projected that the federal deficit...
November 5, 2010 | National Office
All levels of government, particularly in Canada, are being targeted by investors for alleged breaches of Chapter 11, NAFTA’s investment chapter, says a new report by CCPA trade analyst Scott...
November 4, 2010 | National Office
Every year as part of the federal government's budget process, the budget committee asks for "pre-budget submissions."  Essentially these documents are ideas that any person or group can put forward...
October 27, 2010 | National Office
Canada already has a large bilateral trade deficit with the EU—$15 billion in goods and close to $4 billion in services, and loses some 70,000 jobs as a result. A new CCPA study by Jim Stanford...
October 26, 2010 | National Office
When you think about taxes, do you think about the $10,000 having a baby could cost if you lived in the U.S. and didn't have health insurance? Do you think about an education system that allows even...
October 26, 2010 | National Office