>Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 12:10:55 -0400
>Subject: New from the CCPA
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>April 18, 2000
>
>NEW FROM THE CCPA
>
>Here is a selection of new publications from the Canadian Centre for
>Policy Alternatives. Note that they do not, for the most part, include
>new publications from our provincial offices. For a complete list of
>our publications, please visit our web site.
>
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>A REPORT CARD ON WOMEN AND POVERTY
>By Monica Townson
>(April 5, 2000 release)
>Leading feminist economist and CCPA research associate Monica Townson
>examines the state of poverty for women in Canada. She finds that almost
>19% of adult women in Canada living in poverty, the highest rate in two
>decades. Among her other findings:
>o There has been virtually no improvement in poverty rates of women
>since the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada issued its
>report some 30 years ago.
>o Fifty-six per cent of women heading single parent families have
>incomes below the poverty line.
>o Almost half of all women aged 65 or older have low incomes – exactly
>the same poverty rate as that reported by the Royal Commission for this
>group in 1967.
>o Most poor people live thousands of dollars below the poverty line.
>Sole-support mothers average $9,000 below the low-income cut-off, while
>older women on their own are about $3,000 below, on average.
>
>The Report Card can be downloaded from our web site:
>http://www.policyalternatives.ca
>Hard copy version is available for $10.00.
>(Discounts for Bulk orders)
>
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>
>FALLING BEHIND: THE STATE OF WORKING CANADA 2000
>(April 19 release)
>
>By Andrew Jackson and David Robinson
>with Bob Baldwin and Cindy Wiggins
>
>Falling Behind is the most comprehensive and up-to-date reference on the
>state of working conditions and living standards available in Canada.
>
>This is the first of what will be annual publication. It charts major
>trends in the economic and social well-being of Canadians: the labour
>market, the social wage: the role of unions, inequality and poverty,
>taxes, international comparisons etc. It is a valuable reference tool
>for progressive researchers, policy-makers academics, media commentators
>and activists.
>
>Copies of Falling Behind can be obtained as of from the CCPA for $19.95
>each (price includes shipping within North America, handling and GST
>#124146473RT).
>
>It can be purchased (after April 19) directly from our web site:
>http://www.policyalternatives.ca
>
>(Discounts available for bulk orders)
>
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>
>A BETTER WAY: PUTTING THE NOVA SCOTIA DEFICIT IN PERSPECTIVE
>(April 3, release)
>
>This is the inaugural publication of the nascent CCPA Nova Scotia
>office. Produced by a team of researchers and policy analysts, its main
>thrust is to demonstrate that program spending is not the cause of Nova
>Scotia's deficit problems, and cuts to spending are not the solution.
>
>The biggest reasons for Nova Scotia’s continuing fiscal problems are:
>weak economic growth over the past decade and the relatively greater
>costs of federal spending cuts. While Nova Scotia has 3% of the Canadian
>population, it took 15% of federal cuts. In addition, the increases in
>Nova Scotia's "own-source" revenues were the third lowest among all
>provinces between 1990
>and 1999.
>
>For more information, contact staff person, John Jacobs
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>"A Better Way: Putting Nova Scotia's Deficit in Perspective" and its
>companion piece, "Choices for Nova Scotia's Future," can be downloaded
>>from our web site: http://www.policyalternatives.ca
>Hard copy version is available for $10.00. (Discounts for Bulk orders.)
>
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>
>BRIEFING PAPER SERIES: TRADE AND INVESTMENT
>
>The third in this series is now available. "The Cartagena Biosafety
>Protocol: Opportunities and Limitations," examines the recently
>concluded international agreement on trade in genetically modified
>products. The stronger-than-expected environmental protection signals a
>small but important step away from the dominance of trade over
>environment, human rights etc. Canada was a reluctant signatory; trade
>policy remains the preserve of hard-line free trade proponents. The
>author, Michelle Swenarchuk, is a lawyer with the Canadian Environmental
>Law Association.
>
>Watch for the Scott Sinclair's briefing paper, An overview of the
>General Agreement on Services (GATS) negotiation, currently in progress.
>It will be available in early May.
>
>The Trade and investment series can be downloaded from our web site:
>http://www.policyalternatives.ca
>
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>
>WHO DO WE TRY TO RESCUE TODAY? CANADA UNDER CORPORATE RULE
>by Ed Finn
>(May 1, 2000 release)
>
>"Ed Finn's new collection is must reading for anyone concerned about the
>growing domination of corporate power and the resulting erosion of
>democracy at all levels of our society."
>--Mel Hurtig, author of "Pay the Rent or Feed the Kids: The Tragedy and
>Disgrace of Poverty in Canada"
>
>"Ed Finn is uncompromising about the need to challenge corporate power
>head-on. Who Do We Try to Rescue Today is political commentary at its best."
>--Tony Clarke, President, The Polaris Institute and author of "Silent
>Coup: Confronting the Big Business Takeover of Canada."
>
>Copies of Who Do We Try to Rescue Today can be obtained from the
>CCPA for $19.95 each (price includes shipping within North America,
>handling and GST #124146473RT).
>
>It can be purchased (after May 1) directly from our web site:
>http://www.policyalternatives.ca
>(Discounts available for bulk orders)
>
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>
>THE FIGHT FOR THE FAMILY FARM:
>By Darrin Qualman
>
>This article on the crisis in Canada's farming community appears in the
>most recent "Quarterly Review; Economic and Social Trends in Manitoba" a
>publication of CCPA-Manitoba. It can be downloaded from our web site:
>http://www.policyalternatives.ca A longer version of this article will be
>published as a CCPA monograph later this Spring.
>
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>
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