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Budget fédéral alternatif 2026 : Fiscalité
Ce que le gouvernement canadien devrait faire en matière de fiscalité. Une véritable indépendance exige un nouveau modèle économique.
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What the Just? Transitioning to a low carbon, good jobs economy
For most working people, environmental concerns have historically been a bit like Harvey Dent—two faced. One face says that poisoned water supplies and changing weather…
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Ontario PC convention: Will it shed light on Patrick Brown’s agenda?
About the authorTrish HennessyTrish is the Director of the Think Upstream project and a senior communications strategist with the CCPA National Office. She is focused…
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Charting a path to $15/hour for all workers—and the road beyond
CCPA-BC Submission to the Fair Wages Commission Download 10.68 MB10 pages In this submission to the BC Fair Wages Commission, the CCPA-BC highlights the urgency…
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Fast Facts: No Poverty Reduction Strategy in Speech from the Throne
Tuesday morning, I received a phone call from a Make Poverty History Manitoba member. He lives on a disability benefit that provides him only $180…
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CCPA-BC Director Seth Klein is a signatory to this open letter to the BC government calling for a provincial opioid action plan. The letter was…
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Time for a New Social Contract to Eradicate Child and Family Poverty
Halifax – The 2017 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia reveals that 35,870 children or more than 1 in 5 children…
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Canada’s largest companies prioritizing shareholder payouts over pension contributions
OTTAWA—Last year, Canada’s largest publicly-traded companies paid out four times more to shareholders than it would have cost to fully fund their defined benefit (DB) pension…
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2017 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia
Download 1.14 MB46 pages This year’s Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia identifies a slight decrease in child poverty, with 1,600 children…
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The Lion’s Share
Pension deficits and shareholder payments among Canada’s largest companies Download 328.47 KB26 pages This study examines the status of the defined benefit (DB) pension plans of…
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Big transportation investments needed now in Metro Vancouver: Budget 2018
In Metro Vancouver, as the region’s population has grown so has its congestion problems. Whether enduring a long wait to cross a bridge or get…
Marco Verch
Volodymyr Kyrylyuk
