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December 19, 2023

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  • Close up of Apartment for Rent sign on a fence in front of a house.

    Hate the high cost of rent? Blame the 1990s.

    Bewildered by the high cost of housing? Wondering how we got to this place in Canada? To understand why we’re here now, we need to…

    September 12, 2022
  • Gender-based violence’s disproportionate impact on 2SLGBTQ+ communities

    We’re failing 2SLGBTQIA+ communities amidst rising gender-based violence because policy-makers still don’t understand intersectionality.

    September 8, 2022
  • Putting an end to the student debt sentence

    Student debt forgiveness has sparked hope in the U.S. Canada should pay attention.

    September 8, 2022
  • Three children in blurry weather

    Nearly 50% of Nova Scotians earn less than a living wage—New Report

    Living Wages in Nova Scotia 2022: Working for a Living, Not Living to Work READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Halifax/Kjipuktuk—The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova…

    September 7, 2022
  • Living Wages in Nova Scotia 2022

    Working for a Living, Not Living to Work Download 546.48 KB 36 pages Nova Scotia’s living wages are calculated annually to reflect changing living expenses. Nova…

    September 7, 2022
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    September 7, 2022
  • Show me the money: It’s not a worker shortage, it’s a wage shortage

    Two-thirds of job postings are offering wages that are too low to entice applicants. Employers are going to have to be more competitive to fill…

    September 5, 2022
  • Dangerous liaisons: Canada’s toxic mix of interest rate hikes and private debt

    The combination of rising interest rates and high private debt catapults Canada into the top third most dangerous economic periods since the Second World War.…

    September 2, 2022
  • The devil’s crowbar: how the right weaponizes inflation

    The brand of turbo-charged capitalism that we call “neoliberalism” arrived in North America on a rising tide of inflation.

    September 1, 2022
  • The politics of inflation: The good, bad and the ugly

    It has been a long, long time since Canadians had to worry about high inflation

    September 1, 2022
  • Power, profit, and the politics of inflation

    The Consumer Price Index (the major measure of inflation) rose 8.1 per cent in June compared to last year—the biggest jump in almost 40 years.

    September 1, 2022
  • The great unaffordable North

    Inflation is coupled with wildfires and loss of infrastructure to create an affordability problem unlike anywhere else in Canada

    September 1, 2022
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