Updates from the CCPA

17 Chapters! 27 Contributors! A community effort to establish a City Budget that takes into account growing inequities, climate change, and a vision for a much better Winnipeg. AMB 2022  
May 9, 2022 | Manitoba Office
A new analysis from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives finds that the Ministry of Education funding for Ontario’s 72 school boards fell by an average of $800 per student from 2017-18 to 2021...
April 28, 2022 | Ontario Office
April 26, 12–1pm EDT Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwscOuqpjMuGt3ZnCU5LzOrjsK_bxRn6eF5  The vaquita, the world’s smallest porpoise, is on the verge of extinction. Scientists...
April 14, 2022 | National Office
New CCPA research shows the province's wood pellet industry is sending forests and forest industry jobs up in smoke with the help of an undisclosed amount of subsidies to UK-based industry giant Drax...
April 13, 2022 | BC Office
Watch this space for response and analysis of the federal budget from CCPA staff and our Alternative Federal Budget partners. More information will be added as it is available. Commentary and...
April 8, 2022 | National Office
Federal budget makes inroads into dental care; Missed opportunity on pharmacare and long-term care There's room to go bolder on climate change, housing, EI, the care economy, taxes   OTTAWA —Today’s...
April 7, 2022 | National Office
Le français suit. Canadian organizations concerned with vaccine equity and the TRIPS waiver negotiations at the World Trade Organization are urging the Canadian government to not accept a compromise...
March 28, 2022 | National Office
What happens to different income levels as the cost of living increases and inflation in on the rise?  Jesse Hajer teases out the details, risks and realities of our economic future in Manitoba.
March 16, 2022 | Manitoba Office
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February 23, 2022 | Manitoba Office
With two unions and a conservation organization, we have asked the Competition Bureau of Canada to formally investigate UK energy giant Drax’s monopoly of BC’s wood pellet industry. Drax is using its...
February 15, 2022 | BC Office
Metro Vancouver needs more housing—specifically “missing middle” housing between the extremes of detached homes and large condo towers—to address twin crises of housing affordability and climate...
February 7, 2022 | BC Office
Coordinated legal efforts call on “recalcitrant” governments to support proposed waiver of COVID-related intellectual property monopolies at the WTO November 25, 2021 Human rights lawyers have...
November 25, 2021 |
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November 23, 2021 | Saskatchewan Office
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has joined over 130 international civil society organizations in writing a letter to members countries of the World Trade Organization (WTO), urging them...
November 23, 2021 | National Office
Ahead of the 12th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization on November 30, civil society leaders from around the world are declaring a WTO effort, supported by Canada, to issue a...
November 19, 2021 | National Office