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2024 Living wage rates for Newfoundland and Labrador: Understanding costs in Labrador
Region Rate 2024 Difference to Labrador Central 24.10 13% Eastern 24.70 11% Western 24.10 13% Labrador-Northern Peninsula 27.30 Highest Item Central Eastern Western Labrador-Northern Peninsula…
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Incomes and the Recession
Today’s Statscan release “Incomes of Canadians” provides data for 2009 and a partial reading on the impacts of the recession. (I say partial because the 2008 annual…
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Incomes in Canada – Booming and Busted
Today’s release of the annual Income in Canada report is Statistics Canada’s first word on the impact of the Great Recession on Canadians’ incomes. The…
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Incomes in Canada: Booming and Busted
Today’s release of the annual Income in Canada report is Statistics Canada’s first word on the impact of the Great Recession on Canadians’ incomes. The…
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The Wild West and dysfunctional B.C. politics
Anyone wanting to see just how dysfunctional politics in B.C. has become should check out Bob Simpson’s recent Private Members’ statement in the provincial legislature.…
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Evaluating Corporate Tax Cuts
Don Drummond has an op-ed in today’s Toronto Star concluding: Federal and provincial governments and the Canadian business sector should [establish] monitoring mechanisms that will…
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Foreign trade issues playing out in BC
Last week Premier Christy Clark took the unprecedented step of promising there would be public consultation regarding the Province’s position on the Comprehensive Economic and…
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Fast Facts: How Unions Protect Our Human Rights
Unions are usually thought of as being about higher wages. It’s true. Unions do produce higher wages for their members (and often, as a result of…
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What Happens When the Bed Bugs Do Bite?
The Social Impacts of a Bed Bug Infestation on Winnipeg’s Inner-City Residents Download 1.11 MB31 pages Bed bugs (Cimex lectularius) are making an international comeback,…
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BC Commentary: A Review of Provincial Social and Economic Trends
Spring 2011, Volume 14, Number 2 Download 1.3 MB8 pages Inside this issue: Look to Europe for next phase of BC’s carbon tax by Marc…
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Social Determinants of Health
It is now clear that economic, and social variables – more than individual behaviour – are the most salient factors in determining people’s well-being. Working…
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CETA: A Hot Topic at Gathering of Municipal Leaders
The Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) was a hot topic of debate at the recent Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) annual conference, held…
