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CC – Loop – 4 Col Blog Index

July 11, 2023

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  • Environment & Sustainability

    Fast and Loose with Tordon herbicide on the move

    Our family business includes growing bedding plants. In the spring of 2010 every tomato, pepper and marigold we started curled up grotesquely and died. After…

    November 9, 2012
  • International
    Municipalities

    Why 38 Ontario municipalities oppose the Canada – EU trade deal

    To date, 38 municipalities have passed motions expressing concern about the closed door negotiations for a comprehensive economic and trade agreement (CETA) going on between…

    November 9, 2012
  • Employment & Labour
    Living Wage
    Policy Note

    England’s serious debate about living wages

    I was in London for the last week and I was amazed to see what a big issue the idea of paying people a living…

    November 8, 2012
  • Living Wage
    Minimum Wage
    News & Commentary

    What if the minimum wage was a living wage?

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    November 5, 2012
  • Memoriam
    News & Commentary

    Errol Black: A truly remarkable life

    If we’re very lucky, every once in a while someone special will come into our lives. Errol Black was special. He would be the first…

    November 5, 2012
  • Employment & Labour
    Income Inequality
    Living Wage

    What if the minimum wage was a living wage?

    Increasingly, leadership for policy change comes from outside of government, not from within. It’s why many Ontarians who are focused on reducing and eliminating poverty…

    November 5, 2012
  • Policy Note
    Provincial Budgets
    Tax Policy

    HST vs MSP: why are only some increases revolting?

    Vaughn Palmer had an interesting piece in the Vancouver Sun yesterday. In a piece entitled “Dix agenda bows to post-HST reality,” Palmer writes that the…

    November 3, 2012
  • Economic Indicators
    Employment & Labour
    News & Commentary

    Welcome to the Wageless Recovery

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    November 2, 2012
  • Food Justice
    Income Inequality
    New Brunswick
    Newfoundland and Labrador
    News & Commentary
    Nova Scotia
    Prince Edward Island

    Getting at the root causes of hunger in Atlantic Canada

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    November 1, 2012
  • News & Commentary

    Idea Factory

    Hennessy’s Index: A number is never just a number Hennessy’s Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy, about Canada…

    November 1, 2012
  • Agriculture & Farming
    Corporations & Corporate Power

    The Attack on Organics

    Anti-organics study funded by Cargill and other corporations Food issues have been much in the news recently, but I want to focus on what can…

    November 1, 2012
  • Economic Indicators
    Income Inequality

    Capitalism is the Crisis (Part III)

    Time to sow seeds of a better world, says Vandana Shiva British colonial rule in India led to the killing of 200 million Indians and,…

    November 1, 2012
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  1. Fast and Loose with Tordon herbicide on the move
  2. Why 38 Ontario municipalities oppose the Canada – EU trade deal
  3. England’s serious debate about living wages
  4. What if the minimum wage was a living wage?
  5. Errol Black: A truly remarkable life
  6. What if the minimum wage was a living wage?
  7. HST vs MSP: why are only some increases revolting?
  8. Welcome to the Wageless Recovery
  9. Getting at the root causes of hunger in Atlantic Canada
  10. Idea Factory
  11. The Attack on Organics
  12. Capitalism is the Crisis (Part III)

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    News & Commentary
    Unemployment & Underemployment

    Youth unemployment is approaching a boiling point in Ontario

    Canada is confronting a deepening youth employment emergency that policy-makers and political debates have largely overlooked, as a recent CCPA analysis highlighted. 

    June 17, 2025
  • Illustration: Gina Gill
    News & Commentary
    Regulation/Deregulation
    Trade

    Federal “one Canadian economy” legislation is a power grab 

    On June 6, Prime Minister Mark Carney tabled his much-anticipated “one Canadian economy” legislation that purports to help the government build nation-making projects and tear…

    June 11, 2025
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    Unemployment & Underemployment
    June 17, 2025

    Youth unemployment is approaching a boiling point in Ontario

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    Regulation/Deregulation
    Trade
    June 11, 2025

    Federal “one Canadian economy” legislation is a power grab 

  • Climate Change
    Environment & Sustainability
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    June 10, 2025

    To fight wildfires and heat waves, Manitoba needs a climate plan

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    Neoliberalism
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    June 10, 2025

    Before the far right threatened democracy, neoliberalism stripped it down

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