Updates from the CCPA
A new report by CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan warns that if past recessions are any guide, between 750,000 and 1.8 million more Canadians will be counted as poor before recovery is complete...
August 19, 2010 |
National Office Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman has a warning for Canadians: we have one of the worst income-to-debt ratios in the world. CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan writes about the problem in...
August 16, 2010 |
National Office Applications are now being accepted for the fourth year of Next Up: A Leadership Program for Young People Committed to Social and Environmental Justice.
This is an amazing, intensive and...
July 29, 2010 |
BC Office Check out the new paper by CCPA-BC research associate Shauna Butterwick: Meaningful Training Programs for BC Welfare Recipients. Shauna examined the experiences of welfare recipients participating in...
July 26, 2010 |
BC Office The CCPA-BC office released another Climate Justice Project brief today, this one finding that greenhouse gas emissions from exported coal and natural gas generate more than double the emissions from...
July 16, 2010 |
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Brigette DePape, an international development student, is working in our office this summer. In June she travelled in a colourful bus to Toronto to join thousands of others in exercising their...
July 15, 2010 |
Manitoba Office The BC government has announced that the provincial deficit is nearly $1.8 billion. "We told you so," says Marc Lee.
Read BC's Super-Fudge-It Budget on Policy Note.
July 12, 2010 |
BC Office Ever wonder what income inequality sounds like? Check out this video by the Public Service Alliance of Canada.
Posted originally at: http://www.psac-afpc.org/news/2010/what/20100622-e.shtml?l=1
July 9, 2010 |
Yesterday CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan appeared on CBC radio's As It Happens to speak further about the elimination of mandatory long-form questionnaires in the gathering of census data....
July 6, 2010 |
National Office Despite the 2008 financial meltdown, the World Trade Organization continues to negotiate new rules that would promote foreign takeover of domestic banks and more deregulation. WTO advocates are using...
July 6, 2010 |
National Office Marc Lee reminds us that July 1 marked more than the debut of the HST. "The carbon tax is now $20 per tonne of CO2, or about 4.6 cents on a litre of gasoline. And like any two-year old, this...
July 6, 2010 |
BC Office The CCPA's Senior Economist, Armine Yalnizyan, has decried the recent government decision to elmiinate mandatory long-form questionnaires in the gathering of census data.
"This move will weaken the...
July 2, 2010 |
National Office CCPA senior economist Armine Yalnizyan recently wrote a post on the Progressive Economics Forum blog noting that the Great Recession may undo the "success story" of declining poverty rates over the...
June 30, 2010 |
National Office That the HST will take a bite out of family budgets is clear to everyone. The main question right now is just how big of a bite. Two studies released earlier this week asked this exact question but...
June 28, 2010 |
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