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Corak in Context
Professor Miles Corak had a post on The Globe and Mail’s Economy Lab yesterday comparing measures of unemployment in Canada and the U.S. I remember learning in Economics…
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Opting Out of Union Dues
Murray Mandryk’s excellent column today saves me the trouble of writing a lengthy blog post on the Saskatchewan government’s recent musings about labour legislation. From an economic perspective, it’s…
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Meilinomics II: Income from Within
The following is another excerpt from Dr. Ryan Meili’s new book, A Healthy Society: How a Focus on Health Can Revive Canadian Democracy, which fellow blogger Greg…
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While You Were Sleeping: Fed Policies Make It Easier to Hire a Cheaper You
About the authorArmine Yalnizyan
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Educated Analysis vs Cappuccino Logic: Responding to the Quebec student strike
It was bound to happen. After almost three months, Margaret Wente finally got wind of this kerfuffle in Quebec about students refusing to buy into the whole “but it’s…
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Climate change will shape BC in 2035, one way or another
We live on a different planet from the one our parents grew up on, says environmentalist Bill McKibben. Climate change from our rampant combustion of…
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No News is Bad News
Lack of fair labour reporting fuels the anti-union attacks Journalism was always the career I wanted, almost from the time I learned to read and…
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Employers Abuse Their Power Over Pensions
Pension pie shrinks while bosses, unions fight over it The grand debate between defined benefit (DB) and defined contribution (DC) models has dominated the pension…
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A Cheap Shot at the Poor
Harper government scraps the National Council of Welfare Ever since its creation by an act of Parliament in 1969, the National Council of Welfare has…
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Bringing Up Baby
How modern motherhood undermines the status of women Book Review: The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women; by Elisabeth Badinter, Metropolitan Books/Holt,…
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Canada’s Secret Bank Bailout
About the authorDavid MacdonaldDavid joined the CCPA as its Senior Ottawa Economist in 2011, although he has been a long time contributor as a research…
