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Patients or profits first?
Saskatchewan’s Patient First health plan still leaves the door open to for-profit services
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Falling Behind: Service and Wage decline at the City of Winnipeg
Download 597.92 KB 24 pages The City of Winnipeg is experiencing difficulty retaining and recruiting employees to deliver key public services due to low wages…
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What we’re watching as parliament resumes
Parliament has returned from its summer break. We’re expecting a packed—and heated— agenda.
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Five reasons supply matters to the housing crisis
VANCOUVER — As municipal and provincial leaders gather for the Union of BC Municipalities convention this week, housing affordability is a key issue on the…
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Hate the high cost of rent? Blame the 1990s.
Bewildered by the high cost of housing? Wondering how we got to this place in Canada? To understand why we’re here now, we need to…
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Gender-based violence’s disproportionate impact on 2SLGBTQ+ communities
We’re failing 2SLGBTQIA+ communities amidst rising gender-based violence because policy-makers still don’t understand intersectionality.
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Putting an end to the student debt sentence
Student debt forgiveness has sparked hope in the U.S. Canada should pay attention.
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Nearly 50% of Nova Scotians earn less than a living wage—New Report
Living Wages in Nova Scotia 2022: Working for a Living, Not Living to Work READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Halifax/Kjipuktuk—The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova…
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Living Wages in Nova Scotia 2022
Working for a Living, Not Living to Work Download 546.48 KB 36 pages Nova Scotia’s living wages are calculated annually to reflect changing living expenses. Nova…
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Show me the money: It’s not a worker shortage, it’s a wage shortage
Two-thirds of job postings are offering wages that are too low to entice applicants. Employers are going to have to be more competitive to fill…
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Dangerous liaisons: Canada’s toxic mix of interest rate hikes and private debt
The combination of rising interest rates and high private debt catapults Canada into the top third most dangerous economic periods since the Second World War.…
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The devil’s crowbar: how the right weaponizes inflation
The brand of turbo-charged capitalism that we call “neoliberalism” arrived in North America on a rising tide of inflation.
