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Working for a Living Wage
About the authorsIglika IvanovaIglika Ivanova is a Senior Economist and the Public Interest Researcher at the CCPA’s BC Office. She researches and writes on key…
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BC’s soaring EI claims
Today’s Statistics Canada release features the latest (February 2009) stats on Employment Insurance claims. From February 2008 to February 2009, the number of EI beneficiaries…
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Recession packs biggest wallop since 1930s: Study
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA – This recession is hitting Canada harder and faster than any previous downturn and Canadians are more exposed to…
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How Workers’ Compensation cut costs for employers and benefits for injured workers
A report published by the BC Federation of Labour last week finds that since 2002 employers have saved hundreds of millions of dollars in Workers’…
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Oh, about that recession …
BC’s recession started in 2008. That is the upshot of today’s release of Statistics Canada’s Provincial Economic Accounts, which provides the first estimates of BC’s…
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To Tax or Not to Tax — That is Not the Question!
It was disappointing to read Mark Jaccard’s sensational, but grossly misleading forecast of massive job loss if the NDP eliminates the carbon tax. Sure, if…
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Our Schools/Our Selves: Spring 2009
Beyond Child’s Play: Caring for and educating young children in Canada How we care for our children says everything about the communities we create and…
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STV is worth trying
Great to see a debate kicked off among our research associates and others about the pros and cons of BC-STV. As Marc mentions below, the…
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Another side to STV
I will take Marc’s suggestion and provide a bit of information on the other side of STV. No STV recommends on their web site that…
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Government pressure to cut wages will increase the risk of deflation
It is now abundantly clear that Canada and the world is facing its worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. However, a sense of premature…
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That other election: STV
By now, you have probably seen the lawn signs. True, they look a bit like NDP colours but they are actually non-partisan pro-STV signs (not…
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Research for Communities: The Spence Neighbourhood Challenge
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