Updates from the CCPA
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 |
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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 The COVID-19 pandemic has put pressure on Canada's leaders to think boldly and act on addressing the country's longstanding problems.
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives' latest Alternative...
November 8, 2021 |
National Office Can the world agree to trade rules that help, rather than hinder, a fair and democratic transition away from fossil fuels and toward a Global Green New Deal? We can and we must, says a trinational...
November 3, 2021 |
National Office The living wage has increased for Metro Vancouver and Victoria higher than the rate of inflation, driven primarily by the rise in housing costs, according to the 2021 update Working for a Living Wage...
November 1, 2021 |
BC Office