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Public and Private Sector Pay Differences
The Canadian Union of Public Employees has released an extensive analysis of public-sector and private-sector wages entitled,...
December 13, 2011
Pooled plans won’t solve pension crisis
A new CCPA report finds that the government's proposed Pooled Registered Pension Plan (PRPP) program will do nothing to solve Canada’s pension crisis. The report, by Monica Towson, concludes that...
December 6, 2011 | National Office
OECD: Canada's income gap is at a record high
A new OECD report on income inequality among 34 industrialized nations asserts what CCPA research has long revealed: Canada's income gap is at a record high. As the Globe and Mail reports in this...
December 5, 2011 | National Office
Political Paralysis and Disaster Budgeting: Lessons from Toronto
As the City of Toronto considers a budget proposal that would result in drastic public sector job cuts, economist Hugh Mackenzie weighs in with a sobering observation: between October 2010 and...
November 30, 2011 | Ontario Office
Canadian fossil fuel exports threaten climate
A new CCPA report finds that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions embodied in Canadian exports of fossil fuels in 2009 were 15% greater than the emissions from all fossil fuel combustion within Canada,...
November 29, 2011 | National Office
Accounting for changes in unionization
The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) has published a short research note offering a comparative analysis of the decline in...
November 26, 2011
Instruments of Social Change
The recent Occupy movements have sparked a number of fundamental conversations about the world in which we currently live and how it needs to change. But how do we nurture societal change that...
November 15, 2011 | National Office
Carbon footprints increase with income
A new CCPA report finds household carbon footprints increase with income. In fact, the richest 20% of Canadian households are responsible for almost double the greenhouse gas emissions of those in...
November 15, 2011 | National Office
Recommended reading: Fearmonger
Fearmonger, by CCPA research associate Paula Mallea, is the first comprehensive independent analysis...
November 14, 2011 | National Office
Retirement Heist
Unions are working people’s anti-theft device, so goes the bumper sticker.  In a new book entitled, Retirement Heist: How Companies...
November 12, 2011

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