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Income inequality spikes in Canada’s big cities
OTTAWA—The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ analysis of new data on Canada’s richest 1% shows how much the income gap has been rising in Canada.…
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A Tale of Two Telecoms or Actions Speak Louder than Words
Where does the Saskatchewan government stand on the privatization of provincial Crown corporations? You’d be hard pressed to come up with a definitive answer after…
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An inadequate appeal process for tenants means a bumpy ride for everyone
(Co-authored by Kendra Milne and Jess Hadley, staff lawyers at the Community Legal Assistance Society) Earlier this week, we read with interest Kathy Tomlinson’s January…
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Beyond Austerity – Hugh Mackenzie
CCPA economist Hugh Mackenzie schooled the room on the manufactured deficit crisis at the “Ontario 2013: Toward a Post-Austerity Vision” session. Challenging the Numbers –…
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Beyond Austerity – Jim Stanford
CAW economist Jim Stanford, the CCPA-Ontario’s Advisory Board chair, showed how the austerity response to the 2008 recession has negative side effects on the economy…
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Beyond Austerity – Trish Hennessy
CCPA-Ontario Director Trish Hennessy summarized the “Ontario 2013: Toward a Post-Austerity Vision” core message in this two-minute video blog, originally posted on www.ontarionewswatch.com. Beyond Austerity…
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Canada’s Infrastructure Gap
Where It Came From and Why It Will Cost So Much To Fix It Download 442.3 KB 16 pages Underinvestment in infrastructure is not a…
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Canada missing $145 billion in infrastructure due to underfunding: Study
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA—Underinvestment in infrastructure is not a crisis but a chronic problem in Canada, says a new study by the Canadian…
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Our Way or the Norway
One of goals in my paper, The Petro-Path Not Taken, was to compare Norway and Canada-Alberta’s record in distributing petroleum wealth amongst persons and amongst provinces.…
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Seeing inequality through rose-coloured classes
Amidst the reluctant media coverage of Idle No More exists a particularly irritating contradiction that centres on how wealth and inequality are examined. The Occupy…
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The dubious case for casinos
I got way off my usual research agenda this morning for a business panel on CBC radio. The topic was the economics of casinos, the…
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Governing Motherhood
Who Pays and Who Profits? Download 0 bytes14 pages In this report from CCPA-NS, Phyllis Rippeyoung argues that the increasing pressures put on mothers to…
