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There is renewed attention on Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) in the wake of the recent damning report from the UN Special Rapporteur on…
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Eroding Worker Protections
BC’s New ‘Flexible’ Employment Standards Download 984.85 KB 48 pages About the authorDavid FaireyDavid Fairey is a labour economist, a research associate of the Canadian…
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CCPA-SK organizes Citizens’ Budget Commission
The Saskatchewan government appointed a commission to review business taxes in Saskatchewan earlier in the year. This Business Tax Commission will release its report on…
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Business Taxes in Saskatchewan
Taking Stock for Progressive and Effective Reform Download 207.74 KB 20 pages Attachments Saskatchewan Notes: Lowering Taxes Comes at a Cost: What the Business Lobby…
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The Promise of Investment in Community-Led Renewal — State of the Inner City Report: 2005
Part II: A View From the Neighbourhoods Download 4.27 MB 39 pages Attachments State of the Inner City 2005: Summary About the authorCCPA-MB
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The Promise of Investment in Community-Led Renewal — State of the Inner City Report 2005
Part I: Policy Considerations Download 4.18 MB 44 pages Attachments State of the Inner City 2005: Summary About the authorCCPA-MB
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Alternative Federal Budget decodes the spin, provides a guide to the Economic and Fiscal Update
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA—Monday’s Economic and Fiscal Update is animated more by politics than economics. In the present political circumstances the temptation for…
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Taking the Spin Out of the Economic and Fiscal Update: A Guide to the Numbers
Alternative Federal Budget 2006: Technical Paper #3 Download 115.45 KB8 pages About the authorEllen Russell
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FastFacts: The Employment Standards Act
Improving Conditions for Low-Wage Workers Download 33.76 KB 2 pages About the authorsErrol BlackShauna MacKinnon
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Provincial government risks recruitment and turnover problems if it ignores wage trends in next round of public sector bargaining
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Vancouver–As the BC government enters into collective bargaining with over 80% of the province’s public sector workers, it will have…
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Debt repayment arguments don’t add up: Report
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—A new study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives finds that, contrary to popular belief,…
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The Vanishing Efficiency Gains of Debt Repayment
Alternative Federal Budget 2006: Technical Paper #2 Download 209.13 KB22 pages About the authorsTony MyattJoe Ruggeri
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Paying Our Public Servants
The Dollars and Sense of BC and National Wage Trends Download 90.42 KB8 pages About the authorStuart Murray
