The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives published a new report, Missing Teeth: Who’s left out of Canada’s dental care plan, in which CCPA senior economist David Macdonald calculates that 4.4 million of all Canadians still won’t have private insurance and won’t be covered by the dental care plan by the time the federal government finalizes the roll out in … Read more
In a new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Measuring Matters: Assessing Canada’s progress toward $10-a-day child care for all, found that Canada is making solid progress in offering more affordable child care. In the report, CCPA senior economist David Macdonald and the Childcare Resource and Research Unit’s Martha Friendly surveyed licensed child care in 37 … Read more
In Building Momentum: A Budget for Now and the Future, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives presents its Alternative Federal Budget for 2024. The document demonstrates with clear policy proposals that another world is possible. It covers 25 issue areas from child care to poverty to long-term care, including the means to pay for proposals. “The AFB’s investment in … Read more
The 2023 federal budget puts a handful of policies in the spotlight but leaves many crucial issues out in the cold. The budget includes $56 billion in new corporate tax breaks for investments in the clean economy. It also substantially expands the federal dental care program while incorporating new health care spending announced in February. While … Read more
If the pandemic taught us how crucial it is for the federal government to be prepared to support the jobless, reinforce health care, and improve long-term care, then today’s Fall Economic Statement appears to have unraveled those lessons, said Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Senior Economist David Macdonald. “The finance minister is still signaling a cautious approach moving … Read more
Inflation is holding back a worker-led pandemic economic recovery, but corporate profits have captured more in this recovery than after any previous recession, according to new analysis by Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ senior economist David Macdonald. “Corporate profits have recovered far faster and captured much more of our economy than following any previous recession, by a … Read more
Women’s wages are not keeping pace with surging inflation overall, according to one key finding from a new report, entitled A Bumpy Ride: Tracking women’s economic recovery amid the pandemic, released by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). In February 2022 the annual change in inflation was 5.7 per cent, while women’s wages grew on average by only 2.2 … Read more
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives released a new report, On the Offensive: How Canadian companies use trade and investment agreements to bully foreign governments for billions, which found that Canadian mining companies continue to target environmental policy and resource management decisions in developing nations through increasingly costly investor-state lawsuits that threaten human rights, sustainable development and action on … Read more
Child care fees Canada-wide are on track to drop quickly for the rest of 2022, but differences in how provinces and territories plan to meet the federal government’s fee reduction targets mean some are not likely to reach them, according to a new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). “We’re well on our way … Read more
The federal commitment to create a national dental care program will help millions of Canadians, but many key areas like long-term care and pharmacare are missing in action, said Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives senior economist David Macdonald. “This budget puts in place one of the pieces to complete Canada’s medicare project, dental care, but there’s … Read more
