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New report gives voice to migrant workers in Manitoba
Each year approximately 400 Mexican men, migrant labourers under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP), work on farms in Manitoba. Workers spend up to eight months in Canada, returning...
May 29, 2013 | Manitoba Office
A solution to Toronto's $2.5 billion public transit expansion
A new report by CCPA-Ontario economist Hugh Mackenzie lays out a range of revenue generating options that could readily fund plans to expand public transit in the Greater Toronto Area and Hamilton...
May 22, 2013 | Ontario Office
Temporary Foreign Workers in Canada
The Canadian Foundation for Labour Rights has a new e-bulletin with some interesting updates. Given the interest lately in temporary foreign workers and their impact on Canada's labout market, Ken...
May 16, 2013
New video from our Budget Forum featuring Kevin Page
On April 25th, the CCPA hosted a forum on the changing nature of federal budgets, featuring former Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page. As the keynote speaker, Mr. Page delivered a...
May 14, 2013 | National Office
Is wealth too powerful in Canada?
Thursday evening at the Canadian War Museum, in a debate presented by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and moderated by historian Jack Granatstein, CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan and...
May 12, 2013 | National Office
Inequality is accelerating
"Inequality is accelerating – and with it, the fragility of our economy." The latest column by Frances Russell, Tax cuts a race to the bottom, connects the dots between worsening...
May 9, 2013
CCPA presents on income inequality to the Standing Committee on Finance
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May 6, 2013 | National Office
Links to Union Related Material from Broadbent Institute
The Broadbent Institute has posted...
May 3, 2013
Four more years of austerity
Ontario's provincial budget has been tabled and the conclusion is: Ontarians can expect four more years of austerity budgets. Read the tea leaves in this instant budget analysis by Hugh Mackenzie...
May 3, 2013 | Ontario Office
Without change in public policy, Canada's gender gap will persist
The coming weeks will see women and men graduating in nearly equal numbers from schools across Canada. By the time those women and men reach their 30s, they will see the gap between their incomes...
April 24, 2013 | National Office

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