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In addition to our formal news releases (below), you can get informal news about CCPA's activities from our Updates. You can also view news releases and updates from specific CCPA offices across Canada or from specific projects and inititatives (such as The Growing Gap, Climate Justice, Alternative Federal Budget, and others).

Harper budget fumbles on job crisis
OTTAWA – The Harper government’s budget fails to measure up to its own job creation promises, says the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), a progressive think tank. Instead of...
March 4, 2010 | National Office
Federal budget task: Fix Canada’s job crisis
OTTAWA – Canada faces its worst job crisis in a generation and the federal government needs to step forward with a solution in this week’s budget, says the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives...
March 1, 2010 | National Office
La tâche du budget fédéral: mettre fin à la crise de l'emploi du Canada
OTTAWA - Le Canada est confronté à sa pire crise de l'emploi depuis une génération, et le gouvernement fédéral doit monter au créneau en proposant une solution dans le budget qu'il présente cette...
March 1, 2010 | National Office
Budget 2010 advance warning: more government spending cuts will further slow BC’s sluggish economic recovery
In anticipation of Tuesday’s provincial budget, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives warns that further cuts to public spending will impede the economic recovery, which is already expected...
February 25, 2010 | BC Office
Buy American deal gives away Canadian procurement sovereignty
OTTAWA—The tentative Buy American deal fails to gain a meaningful exemption for Canadian suppliers from provisions in the U.S. stimulus package while permanently curtailing provincial and...
February 9, 2010 | National Office
EI system failing recession “stress test”—report
OTTAWA—Canada’s Employment Insurance system is failing the “stress test” of the recession and fixing it must be a key priority in the upcoming federal budget, says a new report from the Canadian...
January 25, 2010 | National Office
Woodworking unions and environmentalists propose bold new plan to protect forests and jobs while fighting climate change
Vancouver — Forest industry unions and leading environmental groups have united behind a plan that calls on the BC government to conserve more forest, halt rampant wood waste and promote wise use...
January 11, 2010 | BC Office
Revision to CCPA’s 2008 executive compensation report
TORONTO—In the CCPA’s annual review of executive compensation in Canada released January 4, 2010 (A Soft Landing: Recession and Canada’s 100 highest paid CEOs), an oversight was...
January 5, 2010 | National Office
Soft landing for Canada’s CEOs
TORONTO—Canadians may have been hit hard by a worldwide economic recession, but it appears Canada’s 100 highest paid CEOs are enjoying a soft landing. A report on executive compensation by...
January 4, 2010 | National Office
Federal environment spending dwarfed by rising defence budget
OTTAWA—A new report shows that Canada’s rising National Defence spending is $21.185 billion in 2009-2010, making Canada’s rank 13th highest in the world, and 6th highest among NATO’s 28 members,...
December 10, 2009 | National Office

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