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CC – Loop – 4 Col Blog Index

July 11, 2023

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  • Employment & Labour

    Let’s Give the Labour Movement Its Due

    Unions are society’s builders, not strike-happy wreckers Given a word-association test, the response of most Canadians to the word “union” would be “strikes.” How else…

    April 1, 2012
  • News & Commentary

    Federal budget worsens inequality, high unemployment future

    The 2012 federal budget, which purports to deliver “jobs, growth and long-term prosperity,” does nothing of the kind. Make no mistake, this is an austerity…

    March 30, 2012
  • News & Commentary

    Budget 2012: Pennywise But Pound Foolish

    Marc, Andrew and Toby have posted substantial analyses of yesterday’s federal budget and I have some comments in today’s Hamilton Spectator. My two cents about the budget’s economic forecasts follow. Table 2.1 envisions…

    March 30, 2012
  • News & Commentary

    Lockouts Almost Derail GDP Growth

    Statistics Canada reported today that economic growth dropped to a bare 0.1% in January. The New Year began with Rio Tinto locking out former Alcan employees at…

    March 30, 2012
  • News & Commentary

    OAS, the Budget, and the Baby Boomers

    The Budget justifies raising the age of eligibility for OAS and GIS on the grounds that  the long-term fiscal sustainability of the program is being…

    March 30, 2012
  • News & Commentary

    Fast Facts: Hostile Labour Relations Cause Unnecessary Conflict with Brandon’s Public Sector Workers

    Last week, the Manitoba Labour Board reinstated Brandon Professional Fire Fighters/Paramedics Association president Wade Ritchie in his job as a fire fighter.  The city of…

    March 30, 2012
  • Income/wages
    Policy Note
    Public Sector
    Tax Policy

    Canadians want higher taxes from the federal budget

    The Globe and Mail released the results of a new poll they conducted on what Canadian priorities are for the upcoming budget. The findings seem…

    March 29, 2012
  • News & Commentary

    CLC Analysis of the 2012 Federal Budget

    Budgets are all about choices. With unemployment and underemployment still at very high levels and a shrinking middle-class, the federal government could and should have…

    March 29, 2012
  • News & Commentary

    CCPA reaction to 2012 federal budget

    The Canadian Centre of Policy Alternatives believes that all Canadians will pay the price for a federal budget that will result in significant job losses, weaker environmental…

    March 29, 2012
  • News & Commentary

    Federal budget drags Canada into unnecessary austerity

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    March 29, 2012
  • News & Commentary
    Provincial Budgets

    A budget that screws the planet for short-term profits

    First off, the 2012 federal budget makes no upfront claim to be a budget. Indeed, the cover states only “Economic Action Plan 2012: Jobs, Growth…

    March 29, 2012
  • News Release

    Federal budget drags Canada into age of austerity: Think tank

    OTTAWA—All Canadians will pay the price for a federal budget that will result in significant job losses, weaker environmental protection, and unnecessary cuts to cherished…

    March 29, 2012
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  1. Let’s Give the Labour Movement Its Due
  2. Federal budget worsens inequality, high unemployment future
  3. Budget 2012: Pennywise But Pound Foolish
  4. Lockouts Almost Derail GDP Growth
  5. OAS, the Budget, and the Baby Boomers
  6. Fast Facts: Hostile Labour Relations Cause Unnecessary Conflict with Brandon’s Public Sector Workers
  7. Canadians want higher taxes from the federal budget
  8. CLC Analysis of the 2012 Federal Budget
  9. CCPA reaction to 2012 federal budget
  10. Federal budget drags Canada into unnecessary austerity
  11. A budget that screws the planet for short-term profits
  12. Federal budget drags Canada into age of austerity: Think tank

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    A stiff price to pay: Predicting federal job losses due to Carney’s cuts

    The newly elected federal government has promised major military spending increases and tax cuts. To pay for it, the government is seeking 15 per cent…

    July 24, 2025
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    Time for a real poverty reduction strategy in Ontario

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