Updates from the CCPA
In Saskatchewan, homelessness has become a grave concern and a serious reality for many women and children. Saskatchewan now has the highest rates of homelessness in the country with one in five...
June 28, 2010 |
Saskatchewan Office Canadians are being told that public health care financing is not sustainable, and that the solution is a shift to more private health insurance and private delivery of services. On June 17, 2010...
June 28, 2010 |
National Office
Canadians are being told that public health care financing is not sustainable, and that the solution is a shift to more private health insurance and private delivery of services. Renowned...
June 28, 2010 |
National Office On Policy Note, Keith Reynolds argues against the anti-tax logic of the Taxpayers' Federation. If municipalities go further down the road of tax cuts, we could end up like California: in deep...
June 22, 2010 |
BC Office Statistics Canada released 2008 income data for Canadians and finds median after-tax family incomes were flatlined and the number of families living in poverty remained virtually unchanged compared...
June 18, 2010 |
National Office In today's Vancouver Sun, Marvin Shaffer argues that the Clean Energy Act is far worse legislation than the HST — in fact, he says, this is the legislation that British Columbians should be fighting...
June 14, 2010 |
BC Office The Carol Shields Auditorium was filled to capacity last night when CCPA-Manitoba hosted the Winnipeg premiere of Poor No More, a film featuring Mary Walsh. The movie was followed by a short...
June 11, 2010 |
Manitoba Office Over on Policy Note, Keith Reynolds has outlined some of the problems with the recent report on the Vancouver School Board prepared by the Comptroller-General. Like, for example, the fact that the...
June 9, 2010 |
BC Office New analysis by CCPA Research Associate Sheila Block shows Ontarians from racialized backgrounds are far more likely to live in poverty, face barriers to finding a job, and receive less pay for work...
June 3, 2010 |
Ontario Office When Mary Walsh was in Winnipeg last fall for a CCPA-MB fundraiser, she spoke about a film she was working on Poor No More (www.poornomore.ca). Now we can see that movie! CCPA-MB, with the support...
June 1, 2010 |
Manitoba Office He has committed his life to the advancement of human rights. He's watched Canada move from a "sharing and caring" society to the "new barbarism." Now Ed Broadbent comes out swinging.
In his...
May 31, 2010 |
National Office
A look back at the spring sitting of the Saskatchewan Legislature with David Seymour of the Frontier Centre and Simon Enoch of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Saskatchewan office....
May 20, 2010 |
Saskatchewan Office On Policy Note, Iglika Ivanova is "thinking about recessions as times of more fundamental, structural change in the economy and the job market and not just periods of temporary slow-down after...
May 20, 2010 |
BC Office A groundbreaking new report shows the earnings gap between the rich and the rest of Quebeckers is at a 30-year high.The report, co-published by Institut de recherche et d’informations socio-...
May 19, 2010 |
National Office Regina —The Saskatchewan office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ series "Transforming Saskatchewan's Electricity Future" was launched with the publication of "Sustainability is...
May 11, 2010 |
Saskatchewan Office