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Recap of our 2016 Rosenbluth Lecture with Pierre Fortin
This year, CCPA-BC’s annual Gideon Rosenbluth Memorial Lecture featured economist Pierre Fortin, who shared lessons from Quebec’s experience with low-fee, publicly funded child care. Professor…
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Ten things to know about Canadian attempts to count homelessness through Point-in-Time Counts
Alberta’s seven largest municipalities recently released early results of a provincially-coordinated effort to enumerate and survey persons experiencing homelessness. Most of these communities reported reductions in homelessness,…
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Work Life: Portage la Prairie P3 decision fails public interest test
Pursuant to new provincial and federal effluent guidelines, the City of Portage la Prairie is required to upgrade its wastewater facilities, known as the Water…
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Child care for all of us
Universal child care for Canadians by 2020 Download 177.86 KB21 pages It is disturbing but not surprising that, despite some initiatives in a number of…
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Des services de garde pour nous tous et toutes
Des services de garde universels pour l’ensemble des Canadiens en 2020 Download 318.54 KB26 pages Il est inquiétant, quoique pas étonnant, de constater que malgré…
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Work Life: Time to give back to Manitoba’s North
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press, Dec 6, 2016 Those of us who were hoping that the Throne Speech would have details about a…
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Payday loans and bank double standards
Income inequality is mounting in Canada, making an already inexcusable wealth gulf worse.
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Canada’s Sexual Assault Problem
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Infographic: Who’s in the Loop?
Unfair tax loopholes cost the federal government $103 billion dollars each year—but not everyone’s in the loop. These loopholes disproportionately benefit the rich, and perpetuate…
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Out of the Shadows
Shining a light on Canada’s unequal distribution of federal tax expenditures Download 1.75 MB58 pages This study finds that Canada’s personal income tax expenditures disproportionately…
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Predatory Lending
A Survey of High Interest Alternative Financial Service Users Download 786.1 KB 24 pages Ontario is home to more than 800 payday storefronts — more than…
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SaskNotes: The Futility of Austerity
Lessons for Saskatchewan Download 369.17 KB7 pages The instinct of governments across the political spectrum when faced with economic contraction has been to cut public…
