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Is the law the last bastion of climate action?
About the authorHadrian Mertins-KirkwoodHadrian Mertins-Kirkwood (he/him) is a senior researcher and political economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. His work focuses on federal…
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Do Corporate Income Tax Rate Reductions Accelerate Growth?
Download 829.39 KB 38 pages This study examines the relationship between the Canadian corporate income tax (CIT) regime and various dimensions of economic growth. The…
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The Living Wage Movement: Responding to the Low-Wage Economy
York University Global Labour Research Centre With the relentless spread of precarious low-wage work and the challenges faced in expanding the scope of unionization, workers…
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Five lessons from the failing fight against child poverty
Ontario vowed to reduce child poverty by 25 per cent between 2008 and 2013. It came nowhere close. What can we learn from that failure?…
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We’re putting fossil fuel industry influence under the microscope
By Bill Carroll and Shannon Daub The tremendous concentration of power and influence we see in the fossil fuel industry today places sharp limits on…
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Why corporate power is a problem at the climate crossroads
By Shannon Daub and Bill Carroll As world leaders head to Paris for next week’s UN climate conference, the spotlight is being turned on the…
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Making History: Cambridge opens the door to a living wage
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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Short-term gain for long-term pain: Ontario’s 2015 Fall Economic Statement
It isn’t easy being a Minister of Finance. Especially when your starting point is: we want to meet the zero deficit target we set 5…
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Want to create good, sustainable jobs for Canada? Try co-ops.
In the coming months and years, the new federal government will make important decisions about jobs: how we create them, protect them and make them…
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5 signs the BC economy is weak and what this means for Budget 2016
Yesterday, the provincial government released its 2015/16 Second Quarterly Report: an update on where provincial finances are at six months into the fiscal year and where…
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Fast Facts: Who’s keeping score?
Two interesting reports crossed my desk recently. The first one, a column by Dan Lett, appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press on November 18th. Lett…
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Looking under the hood of Alberta’s new climate plan
About the authorMarc LeeMarc Lee is a Senior Economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Marc joined the CCPA’s British Columbia office in 1998,…
