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The hollowing out of public postsecondary education: What do we have to lose?
Is post-secondary education in Canada a pipeline to train students for jobs or a source of critical perspectives essential to a healthy society?
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Federal anti-scab legislation is a big win for workers
Banning replacement workers in federally regulated industries will remove one of the employers’ most unfair tools against collective bargaining
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Anti-Scab legislation does not increase strikes, despite corporate propaganda
There’s no evidence that banning replacement workers makes strikes longer. Employer organizations simply want to keep using scabs.
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The rich “won” the pandemic: Income inequality skyrocketed in 2021
New data shows what observers long suspected—the rich took advantage of the pandemic to fill their bank accounts
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Time to end information hide-and-seek games: Public deserves more prompt government disclosure of basic data
No one should be told to file a Freedom of Information request simply to learn who works for them. Government must give members of the…
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The fight over carbon pricing is missing the point
Carbon pricing fight a dangerous distraction from real climate policy
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A Not-So-Crazy Conspiracy Theory
If this crisis doesn’t discredit capitalism, what will? There’s this cartoon about two cows. The first cow has just figured out, to her horror and…
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Now You See It, Now You Don’t
How federal and provincial benefits get wiped out with wage increases Download 122.6 KB3 pages Imagine a low-income family working hard day after day to…
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Affordability crisis will persist until we get a handle on runaway housing costs
Although inflation has come down from the historic highs recorded in 2022, the cost of living in Metro Vancouver continues to increase rapidly. It now…
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Missing teeth
About the authorDavid MacdonaldDavid joined the CCPA as its Senior Ottawa Economist in 2011, although he has been a long time contributor as a research…
