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Doctors and MacLean's team up in Winnipeg on Aboriginal Health 17 Aug 2013 | 01:56 am
Doctors are demonstrating their ethical duty to patients by working towards a society in which everyone has an opportunity to lead a healthy life. Last winter, the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) a...
Join CCPA-NS (and Karl Marx) for a special fall fundraiser! 9 Aug 2013 | 12:55 am
Join CCPA's Nova Scotia Office for a very special fall fundraiser. This year's event features Cape Breton's George MacKenzie performing as Karl Marx (returning to defend his life and his work) in the ...
Affordable Housing in Winnipeg 7 Aug 2013 | 08:42 pm
Affordability of housing has been an important issue in Winnipeg for the last decade or so, with vacancy rates well below three percent and rents rising every year. In recent years, however, there has...
CCPA SK presents former PBO Kevin Page in Regina! 6 Aug 2013 | 09:40 pm
On Thursday September 26th, the Saskatchewan Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives will be presenting a night with former Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) Kevin Page at the Universit...
Open for Business Closed for Workers 30 Jul 2013 | 12:33 am
This report comes out of the Broadbent Institute. It looks at the role of employment standards enforcement and the role unions can play. Written by U of Ottawa law student Daniel Tucker-Simmons, the r...
Canada Sinking Fast on Global List of Job Creators 27 Jul 2013 | 01:44 am
Jim Standord has posted a blog on the Progressive Economic Forum about Canada's dismal performance regarding job creation. This blog complements the OECD's recently released Employment Outlook report...
Applications Now Open for Next Up Saskatchewan! 19 Jul 2013 | 09:19 pm
Applications are now being accepted for Next Up: a leadership program for young people committed to social and environmental justice. This is an amazing, intensive and transformative program the CCPA ...
Applications open for the Next Up youth leadership program 19 Jul 2013 | 03:23 am
Applications are now being accepted for Next Up: a leadership program for young people committed to social and environmental justice. This is an amazing, intensive and transformative program the CCPA...
Applications open for the Next Up youth leadership programs across Canada 19 Jul 2013 | 03:23 am
Applications are now being accepted for Next Up: a leadership program for young people committed to social and environmental justice. This is an amazing, intensive and transformative program the CCPA...
Education and the art of social justice 19 Jul 2013 | 01:04 am
From teaching dance to elementary school students, to using poetry about conflict in the Middle East to facilitate a classroom discussion about difference and acceptance, the arts provide students wit...
