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December 19, 2023

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  • Inflation, soaring living costs cause unprecedented increase in Metro Vancouver living wage

    Living wages increase across BC due to 40-year inflation high & rising costs of living, especially housing CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT VANCOUVER…

    November 17, 2022
  • Working for a Living Wage: Making paid work meet basic family needs in Metro Vancouver

    2022 Update Download 1.93 MB 16 pages Living expenses in BC, particularly for housing and food, are continuing to rise for families, meaning higher wages…

    November 17, 2022
  • Growing Gap

    A tale of two pandemics: the rich and the rest of us

    On the whole, Canada’s richest one per cent got a decent raise in the first year of the pandemic; the bottom 50 per cent? Not…

    November 16, 2022
  • Soft rock and a soft touch

    Trove of FOI documents sheds new light on lax regulation of troubled Site C dam It was the bureaucratic equivalent of waiting for a box…

    November 16, 2022
  • Beyond Recovery

    The racialized employment gap is narrowing but barriers persist

    Bumpy Ride Fall 2022 Update #2: Looking at the racialized employment gap among women workers in the Fall 2022 labour force data

    November 16, 2022
  • Queen’s Park is richer than it admits

    The Ontario government is underestimating 2022-23 revenues by a whopping $10 billion. Rather than recording a predicted deficit, the province is on track to be…

    November 15, 2022
  • Fast Facts: Stop the Education Property Tax Cut until We Have a Better Plan

    First published in the Winnipeg Free Press Nov 14, 2022   The Manitoba government’s plan to eliminate the education property tax – a tax that…

    November 14, 2022
  • Work Life: Provinces, including Manitoba are richer than they think

    Across Canada, initial provincial budget projections early in the pandemic showed provinces would be struggling with large deficits for years to come. Since 2020-2021, these…

    November 11, 2022
  • Woman with hard hat loading long pipes in construction area
    Beyond Recovery

    Women’s employment rate trending below spring highs

    Bumpy Ride Fall 2022 Update #1: Labour market data from Fall 2022 shows an uneven recovery for women workers.

    November 9, 2022
  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    Impact of COVID-19 on Refugee Families in Winnipeg

    About the authorFadi Ennab

    November 9, 2022
  • Canada Post – TD Bank partnership opens door to public postal banking

    Postal workers have a plan to build alternatives to for-profit banking sector

    November 7, 2022
  • Ottawa is flush with cash but signals caution as recession looms

    The federal government just released its latest fiscal update. CCPA senior economist David Macdonald has the details.

    November 4, 2022
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