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NS Media: New Report – 2024 Living Wages for Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island
Halifax/Kjipuktuk—The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia has released its annual living wage update for Nova Scotia—which, for the first time, provides a broad regional…
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Can We Afford It?
The Case for the New 2005 Federal Budget Download 561.27 KB 6 pages About the authorCanadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
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Liberals refuse to confront the real cause of Ontario’s fiscal problems
TORONTO—“It’s not often that a government facing fiscal problems leads into its budget by declaring proudly that it intends to ignore the fundamental cause of…
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Budget Outlook 2005: Avoiding the Obvious
Ontario Alternative Budget Technical Paper #2 Download 147.31 KB 4 pages About the authorHugh MackenzieEconomist Hugh Mackenzie is a Research Associate with the CCPA’s National…
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Commodity-driven economic boost masks growing BC regional divide
(Vancouver) Provincial taxation and spending policies have worsened the gap between BC’s two economies — the diversified Lower Mainland and Victoria areas, and the more…
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BC’s Regional Divide
How Tax and Spending Policies Affect BC Communities Download 460.04 KB 60 pages This study builds on analysis originally published in Bleeding the Hinterland: A…
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What goes up must come down: Budget cuts make BC communities more economically vulnerable
BC’s economy is a lot like a rollercoaster ride. Commodity prices for our resource exports (like energy, forest and mining products) go up and down…
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FastFacts: The Way Forward for Labour
Download 29.74 KB2 pages About the authorsErrol BlackJim Silver
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May 2005: When Profits Get Priority Over Health
Vioxx disaster exposes the dark downside of corporate rule Testifying before a U.S. Senate committee looking into the Vioxx-induced heart attacks of an estimated 100,000…
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May 2005: The U.S. in the New Economic World Order
U.S. can’t keep relying on other countries to pay for its imperial excesses Empires collapse usually due to a combination of military overreach and economic…
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May 2005: Embracing Canadian Values
Being “pro-Canadian” means much more than being “anti-American” George W. Bush and his gang of neo-cons have inadvertently prompted Canadians to more closely examine their…
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May 2005: Canadian Workers’ Rights Assaulted
Collective bargaining more an illusion than a right Based on the premise that labour rights are human rights, Canadians have seen a serious erosion of…
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New CCPA report makes the case against more corporate tax cuts
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—Despite outraged business and media reaction to the NDP’s demand for rescinding a new round of corporate tax…
