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4 unusual facts about Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives


Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

The CCPA is based in Ottawa but has branch offices in Vancouver, Winnipeg, Regina, Toronto and Halifax.

Michael Kelway Oliver, a former professor of Political Science at McGill and President of Carleton University was the first CCPA president.

Rabble.ca

First started as a news magazine in partnership with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and the Centre for Social Justice, rabble has expanded beyond the realm of the written word and now includes podcasts as well as branching out to video in 2008 with the creation of rabbletv.

The blog included progressive Canadian thinkers and organizations such as Maude Barlow and the Council of Canadians, The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Campaign for Democratic Media, the Rideau Institute, the Parkland Institute, and contributors including Jim Stanford, Murray Dobbin, James Laxer, and musician Matthew Good.



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