Updates from the CCPA
The Friends of the Sherbrook Pool presented CCPA-MB’s recently released “Winnipeg’s Best-Kept Secret” monograph at their AGM this week. The report examines the important role the pool plays in the...
December 3, 2009 |
Manitoba Office The Honourable Ed Broadbent was the lunchtime speaker at a recent CCPA Alternative Federal Budget Roundtable in Ottawa. You can read the text of his speech here. You can watch his inspirational...
December 3, 2009 |
National Office If you're a regular visitor to the CCPA website you've probably noticed things are looking a little different around here. We've added new features and functions to our site to make it easier for you...
November 30, 2009 |
National Office Release of The State of the Inner City Report 2009
When: Wednesday, December 9th
Lunch 11:30 a.m.
Presentation 12 noon
Where: Circle of Life Thunderbird House, 715 Main Street
RSVP
by December 4th...
November 27, 2009 |
Manitoba Office When The Toronto Star published CCPA research associate Hugh Mackenzie's editorial Can we have an adult conversation about taxes? the CCPA received a flood of positive responses. Canadians agree: it'...
November 27, 2009 |
The CCPA-NS’ second annual fundraising gala and 10th anniversary celebration (November 20) was a great success with good food, an excellent speaker and dancing to live music. The founding director...
November 26, 2009 |
Nova Scotia Office The current economic and financial situation has brought Canada’s retirement income system into sharp focus. Pension expert and CCPA Research Associate Monica Townson has written two policy briefs...
November 25, 2009 |
National Office Today, something remarkable happened.
And, as remarkable as it is, it shows us how far behind Canada has fallen from its ideal self as a beacon of fairness, social justice and equality.
Today, 20...
November 24, 2009 |
"Twenty years after a unanimous federal government motion to eliminate child poverty by the year 2000, which it failed to make good on, Parliament has unanimously agreed to try again," writes Trish...
November 24, 2009 |
Marvin Shaffer questions the BC government's process for evaluating P3s in Thursday's Vancouver Sun. Marvin is a frequent contributor to Policy Note and author of a number of CCPA-BC reports and...
November 20, 2009 |
BC Office Legislation to implement the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement is now back before Parliament. In the briefing paper Investor Rights Trump Human Rights, CCPA analyst Scott Sinclair demonstrates...
November 20, 2009 |
National Office In a recent post on Policy Note, Marc Lee points out that the BC government's recent decision to close down one big GHG producer — Burrard Thermal plant in Vancouver — won't reduce total emissions,...
November 18, 2009 |
BC Office Great fun was had on November 6th when Mary Walsh came to town to perform at Pantages Theatre for CCPA-Manitoba. Mary tackled the issues we care about and made us laugh, while Winnipeg’s own award-...
November 18, 2009 |
Manitoba Office Simon Enoch, Director of the Saskatchewan Office, comments on the return of debt crisis rhetoric with the current recession and what it may mean for Canada's public sector.
November 18, 2009 |
Saskatchewan Office As the CCPA's Climate Justice Project takes off, we're getting some great inspiration and ideas from these innovative American projects: Green for All argues that the US can solve its environmental...
November 17, 2009 |
BC Office