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Platform Crunch: What are the parties promising in their costed platforms?
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…
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It Pays To Pay A Living Wage
Canadian communities are embracing “living wage” campaigns Work should lift us out of poverty. It’s a simple aspiration, an equation many of us believe in,…
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What Price, Austerity?
Hennessy’s Index: A number is never just a number Hennessy’s Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy, about Canada…
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May Day 2013
Another World Is Possible As we digest the news coming out of Europe, with millions of people out of work at the same time as…
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Why BC’s lower-wage workers are struggling: The case for stronger employment standards
BC has acquired the “distinction” of being home to Canada’s largest income gap, highest poverty rate, and second highest child poverty rate. It also has…
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Climate change: Joe Oliver deems fears “exaggerated”
Federal Natural Resource minister Joe Oliver stopped by Montréal on 11 April to promote tar sands and closed the door to any strict greenhouse-gas ceiling.…
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Fulfilling the Promise of the Parliamentary Budget Office: Bill C-476
Before there was a Parliamentary Budget Office, there was no way to independently assess the federal government’s economic and fiscal forecasts. In the late-1990s, we…
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Fast Facts: The Participatory Budgeting Potential for Winnipeg
Citizens are becoming more aware of the importance of equitable and accountable city management and development. Attendees at a recent forum organized by local non-profit…
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Project Mania
One can excuse politicians in the heat of a campaign of simplifying issues and seeking out tags and slags in lieu of substantive debate. But…
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Tall Tales at Tax Time: Meet Thomas and Colleen
There is a nice little story tucked in to the pages of Canada’s Economic Action Plan 2013. It’s a sweet tale of Thomas and Colleen…
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National Day of Mourning: Past Sacrifice, Present Struggle
Weekends aside, there’s still a lot to thank unions for. Maternity leave top-up. Employment Insurance. Child labour laws. Numerous studies—past, and more recent—have identified the degree…
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Are average Canadians paying too much in taxes?
On April 23, the Fraser Institute released the annual update of their misleading Consumer Tax Index report. The piece is meant to feed the anti-tax…
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Gender gap leaves Canadian women “leaning in” for the next 228 years: study
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—Without a change in public policy, Canada’s gender gap won’t go away anytime soon, says a new study…
