Ontario Office

The CCPA Ontario Office has published a report by The Kingston Community Roundtable on Poverty Reduction, Living Wage Working Group that calculates the hourly wage needed in income to meet the basic standard of living in Kingston.

A Living Wage for Kingston indicates that the minimum wage, despite important increases in recent years, is still far from adequate to provide the basic living requirements of families in Kingston (or elsewhere in Ontario).

Rising costs of living, including housing, food and energy, have not been matched by wages or income assistance rates. As a result, many are forced to chose between food and shelter, or worse. A living wage is an important step toward ensuring that all families in Kingston have the resources that are necessary to raise their children, stay healthy, and fully participate in social and community life.

Click here to read the full report.

We hope you can join us November 10th in Toronto for (In)Equality Matters: Social Justice and the Economy.

Incensed by skyrocketing corporate profits and plummeting average incomes? Think wealthy Canadians and corporations should contribute more to public goods and services? Why aren’t they? What can we do about it?

Join Inter Pares and Canadians for Tax Fairness for an evening of discussion on how to foster economic equality.

Jean Symes from Inter Pares, Armine Yalnizyan, one of Canada’s leading progressive economists, and Dr. Yao Graham, renowned African activist and coordinator of Third World Network-Africa, will speak about examples of deepening economic inequality they see in communities worldwide, and what we can do about it.

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Join us on Thursday, November 10, 2011 for (In)Equality Matters: Social Justice and the Economy!

7:30pm
United Steelworkers Hall
25 Cecil St. (near College and Spadina), Toronto
Free (donations welcome)
Join us in person or live on the web!

Incensed by skyrocketing corporate profits and plummeting average incomes? Think wealthy Canadians and corporations should contribute more to public goods and services? Why aren’t they? What can we do about it?

Join Inter Pares and Canadians for Tax Fairness for an evening of discussion on how to foster economic equality.

Jean Symes from Inter Pares, Armine Yalnizyan, one of Canada’s leading progressive economists, and Dr. Yao Graham, renowned African activist and coordinator of Third World Network-Africa, will speak about examples of deepening economic inequality they see in communities worldwide, and what we can do about it.

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Free parking available behind building.
This space is wheelchair-accessible.

For more about the 4-city tour: www.interpares.ca/inequalitymatters
Questions? 1-866-563-4801 (toll-free) or info@interpares.ca.

Sponsoring organizations

Inter Pares, which means "among equals" in Latin, is a national charitable organization dedicated to promoting international social justice. In Canada and overseas, we support people's struggles for peace, justice, and equality; their efforts to challenge structural obstacles for change; and their alternative development approaches. www.interpares.ca

Third World Network-Africa is a pan-African research and advocacy organization based in Accra Ghana. TWN-Africa’s work covers the areas of economic policy: international trade, investment and the role of the IFIs on African development, gender and economic policy and Africa's extractive sector (mainly mining). Since its foundation in 1994 TWN-Africa has worked to support the self-organizing of marginalized groups and the coming together of African organizations and their allies around the world in activism around these issues. www.twnafrica.org

Canadians for Tax Fairness works to build a national campaign to promote fair taxation. We support the development and implementation of a tax system, based on ability to pay, to fund the comprehensive, high-quality network of public services and programs required to meet our social, economic and environmental needs in the 21st century. Canadians for Tax Fairness will work together with other groups and individuals who share our goals. www.taxfairness.ca

The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is an independent, non-partisan research institute concerned with issues of social, economic and environmental justice. Founded in 1980, the CCPA is one of Canada’s leading progressive voices in public policy debates. www.policyalternatives.ca

The CCPA is proud to present Stephen Lewis and Michele Landsberg—two of Canada’s leading thinkers and recipients of the Order of Canada—as this year's featured guests for the David Lewis Lecture in Toronto November 3, 2011.

Join us for an intimate conversation about their lives, their passions, and the future of this country. Following the lecture, there will be a fundraising social in an adjoining room with members of the Lewis family and CCPA research associates.

November 3, 2011
Lecture: 7:00 pm
Fundraising Wine & Cheese Social: 8:30 pm
Trinity St. Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor Street West, Toronto

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We hope you can join us in Ottawa on Thursday, October 20 for a CCPA-sponsored book launch and panel discussion at the Parliament Pub, 101 Sparks Street Ottawa.  Register for this free event at: rsvp@policyalternatives.ca

Stephen Clarkson, Canada’s leading academic authority on Canada-U.S.-Mexico relations, and Matto Mildenberger’s Dependent America: How Canada and Mexico Construct U.S. Power, is published in Toronto by the University of Toronto Press, and in Washington by the Woodrow Wilson Press. This is the third and last of Stephen Clarkson’s book trilogy on North American relations.

You are invited to a CCPA-sponsored book launch and panel discussion at the Parliament Pub, 101 Sparks Street Ottawa.  Register for this free event at: rsvp@policyalternatives.ca

Stephen Clarkson, Canada’s leading academic authority on Canada-U.S.-Mexico relations, and Matto Mildenberger’s Dependent America: How Canada and Mexico Construct U.S. Power, is published in Toronto by the University of Toronto Press, and in Washington by the Woodrow Wilson Press. This is the third and last of Stephen Clarkson’s book trilogy on North American relations.

CCPA senior economist Armine Yalnizyan, was presented with the Ontario Public Health Association’s Award of Excellence on October 5, 2011 at their annual meetings. She accepted this honour on behalf of all the contributors to the Growing Gap Project and all the people who contribute to the CCPA to make our work possible.

It was an unexpected award, but reflects the fact that the OPHA recognizes and celebrates CCPA’s work as supporting their own in the search for public policies and initiatives that can reduce health inequities.

There are few more noble goals  – and few people who work as hard as the folks at the OPHA in their efforts to make meaningful change in our daily lives, particularly among the most marginalized groups in our midst. The CCPA is lucky to be on a journey with such fellow travelers.

The CCPA is proud to present Stephen Lewis and Michele Landsberg—two of Canada’s leading thinkers and recipients of the Order of Canada—as this year's featured guests for the David Lewis Lecture in Toronto November 3, 2011.

Join us for an intimate conversation about their lives, their passions, and the future of this country. Following the lecture, there will be a fundraising social in an adjoining room with members of the Lewis family and CCPA research associates.

November 3, 2011
Lecture: 7:00 pm
Fundraising Wine & Cheese Social: 8:30 pm
Trinity St. Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor Street West, Toronto

This event is sold out.

 All proceeds are dedicated to future CCPA David Lewis Lectures.

Generously sponsored by the Trinity-St. Paul's Centre for Faith, Justice and the Arts and the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU).

The leaders of the Liberal, Conservative and New Democratic parties debated live on TV last night. While the pundits wrestle over who won or who lost, the CCPA's Hugh Mackenzie provides a reality check with an in-depth analysis of the three political parties' platforms. He also weighs in on which party's platform is at greatest risk of missing its deficit targets: Tim Hudak's Conservatives. Read his blog analyzing the facts in the leaders' debate here, and his report comparing the three parties' fiscal platforms here.