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Public broadcast funding in Canada gives Canadians the best bang for their buck
OTTAWA—With the Conservative Party of Canada, and its “defund the CBC” slogan, intent on making public broadcast funding a federal election issue, the Canadian Centre…
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Fast Facts: Selling City Golf Courses to Developers
A Permanent Loss October 26, 2011 was the deadline for developers to make proposals for seven large pieces of prime real estate scattered across Winnipeg. …
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Modest Inflation Outstrips Wages and Canada Social Transfer
Statistics Canada reported today that the annual inflation rate remained 2.9% and the Bank of Canada’s core rate remained 2.1% in November. The monthly increase in consumer…
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Government intervention needed to address youth unemployment
The Canadian Federation of Students, and most of the people we have spoken to, is at a loss over how the government thinks it can…
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Business dominated think tank winds up with report showing little progress in BC
The British Columbia Progress Board came out with its last report today. Gordon Campbell started the think tank in 2001 and now Christy Clark has…
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EI Coverage Falls Below 40%
It may be a grim Christmas for thousands of unemployed Canadians. Today’s Employment Insurance figures show that fewer workers received benefits in October, even as more became…
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Community tranformation from an economic costing perspective
The link between area of residence and places of employment in a disadvantaged community Download 858.04 KB In this study, we investigated the correlation between…
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Just who should be putting who under trusteeship?
I am the first to admit that, lamentably, I know very little about the problems that face First Nations people. That did not stop me…
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Sitting on the Sidelines: Young People Miss Out on the Recovery
As is well known, the youth unemployment rate remains high, and well above average. It stood at 14.1% in November or more than double the…
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The Innovation Gap and the Problem with Research Funding in Canada
While concerns about Canada’s innovation gap have become cliché, too often these observations ignore the elephant in the room: funding for Canadian Researchers is based…
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Europe’s Austerity Implosion
World leaders are doing their best to provoke a global economic downturn of epic proportions. Of course, it is politically hazardous for leaders to admit…
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State of the Inner City Report 2011
Neoliberalism: What a difference a theory makes Download 2.04 MB Attachments 2010 SIC long haul-web.pdf SIC_2009_report_120909.pdf SIC Report 2008.pdf State_of_the_Inner_City2007.pdf About the authorsLindsey LiShauna MacKinnon
