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The Loonie’s Stagnant Purchasing Power
Year E-Rate PPP 2002 63.7 81.3 2003 71.4 81.5 2004 76.8 81.2 2005 82.5 82.4 2006 88.2 82.8 2007 …
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A toxic spill and communications chill
So here’s the little that we know about a pipeline break that occurred more than half a year ago and that British Columbia’s Oil and…
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Shared Futures
Big Institutions and their Inner-City Neighbours Download 676.93 KB38 pages “This paper examines cases of institutional expansion in three neighbourhoods within Winnipeg’s inner city. In…
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Making employment work
Connecting multi-barriered Manitobans to good jobs Download 891.25 KB 52 pages About the authorsRay SilviusShauna MacKinnon
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Increasing number of migrant labourers in Nova Scotia deserve adequate protection
About the authorJason Edwards
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Tilting at Windmills: What to do about Dutch Disease
In response to Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty’s complaint about oil and the exchange rate, several (conservative) commentators argued that this “Dutch disease” is not what…
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Slim pickin’s for BC’s children and youth in budget
Just in case anyone missed just how bad BC’s new budget is for the province’s children and youth, I thought I’d post First Call’s reaction…
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BC isn’t broke: putting teacher bargaining in perspective
Last Monday, BC teachers held a Day of Action in communities across the province to protest the BC government’s decision to legislate a contract and…
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Santa Claus Delivers a Positive Quarter Despite Corporate Scrooges
The Month: Christmas Gift Canada’s economy was buoyed by Christmas cheer as a December bounce more than offset slight declines in October and November to turn the fourth quarter positive. Unfortunately,…
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The Unintended Consequences of Outsourcing Cleaning Work
Download 1.04 MB42 pages The City of Toronto is currently debating whether or not to privatize as many as 1000 municipal cleaning staff. This paper…
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Consequences of outsourcing Toronto’s city cleaning jobs
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Canadians were justifiably outraged when Electro-Motive, owned by Caterpillar, threatened its London, Ont., workers with a 50 per cent pay…
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Local living wage employer wins best employer award
Hats off to Eclipse Awards, a local small business that was one of the first to seek certification as an official Living Wage Employer. At…
