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Five steps BC needs to take to begin building a universal, affordable, quality child care system
There’s no question that BC’s fragmented patchwork of child care programs with exorbitant prices, inadequate spaces and inconsistent quality fails to meet the needs of…
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CETA or sustainable growth: it’s time to choose
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Fast Facts: Income Security to End Poverty in Manitoba
Income security programs in Manitoba and Canada are not keeping pace with the growing problem of poverty. Change is needed to ensure low income and…
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Work Life: Take the Politics out of Pensions
In a new Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives MB report on Manitoba’s public-sector pensions Pensions in Manitoba: What’s Working, What’s Not, What’s a Solution and…
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Pensions in Manitoba
What’s Working, What’s Not, What’s a Solution, What’s Not Download 788.17 KB 36 pages In a new Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives MB report on…
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Fiscal update: Middle class children and those children working hard to join the middle class
In the 2015 election the Liberal Party platform stood out by promising to run a deficit in order to provide stimulus to a then slow-growing…
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Go Big or Go Home: Lessons from the federal government’s botched tax reform attempt
Now that the dust has begun to settle on the federal government’s train wreck of a tax reform initiative that would have limited the ability…
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BC has fiscal room to make lives better
Looking ahead to BC’s 2018 budget, strong public investment is needed more than ever if our province is to tackle the large and pressing problems…
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Pushing back against campus precarity
A lot of numbers are circulated during the coverage of a strike. But in the current strike by Ontario college faculty, two in particular stand…
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Legal Aid Denied: A 20th Anniversary retrospective
Legal Aid Denied: Women and the Cuts to Legal Services in BC was written in 2004 shortly after the election of a neo-conservative Liberal government…
The KPMG Report
No solution for the low-income housing problem Consulting firm KPMG’s recommendations that Manitoba Housing units be sold and that the private sector play a greater…
