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Budget cuts are about to wreck Canada’s immigration system
Crunching the numbers on the announced cuts at Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada shows a bloodbath in the making
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The politics of inflation: The good, bad and the ugly
It has been a long, long time since Canadians had to worry about high inflation
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Power, profit, and the politics of inflation
The Consumer Price Index (the major measure of inflation) rose 8.1 per cent in June compared to last year—the biggest jump in almost 40 years.
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The great unaffordable North
Inflation is coupled with wildfires and loss of infrastructure to create an affordability problem unlike anywhere else in Canada
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Inflation and the general ineffectiveness of monetary policy
There is no denying that inflation has become a major economic and political problem, reaching almost double digits in many industrialized countries. Canadians hear about…
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The financialization of rental housing in Canada
Canada is experiencing a permanent rental housing affordability crisis, which has only intensified since the COVID-19 pandemic began. At the same time, we’re seeing a…
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Cost of food at a crisis level
As we grapple with yet another wave of COVID, the parallel poverty crisis in Toronto has been exacerbated past its breaking point and will have…
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The Monitor, September/October 2022
The Politics of Affordability Download 4.07 MB Issue highlights: The devil’s crowbar: “the battle against inflation is not merely about taming the cost of living,”…
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Work Life: Lots to Consider this Labour Day
Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press Sept 1, 2022 September marks the end of summer, the return to school and Labour Day, an opportune…
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Will Drax’s claim that burning Canadian wood pellets is green go up in smoke?
OECD investigates UK power company’s sustainability claims as Drax becomes the largest pellet-maker in Canada In April 2021, the United Kingdom’s Drax Group purchased Pinnacle…
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The concerning rise of corporate medicine: Public contracts with private clinics top $393 million over last six years
Private surgeries and medical imaging are big business in BC. Over the last two decades, this for-profit sector has benefited from increased outsourcing of publicly…
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Manitoba Living Wage
Update 2022 Download 2.46 MB 12 pages The 2022 living wage update comes alongside the fastest increases to the cost of living seen since the early…
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Revenue losses now $7.5 billion a year under Ford
If Doug Ford wants to make the case for more federal health funding, throwing away money is not the way to do it
