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Ontario

Education
Government Finance
News & Commentary
Ontario

Ontario’s “nearly $900 million” for safe schools is actually much less
An August 26 news release from Ontario’s Ministry of Education reads, “Today’s federal announcement provides $381 million to Ontario, on top of the nearly $900…
August 27, 2020
National Office

News & Commentary
Trade
U.S. Canada Relations

Canada must be tough on new U.S. aluminum tariffs
Photo by ccbarr, Flickr Creative Commons On August 6, a mere five weeks after the Canada–U.S.–Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) entered into force, the Trump administration announced…
August 27, 2020
Manitoba

Income & Wealth Inequality
Reports

Surviving on Minimum Wage
Lived Experiences of Manitoba Workers & Policy Implications Download 1.01 MB 40 pages In 2001, CCPA-Manitoba published a report titled The Minimum Wage and a…
August 27, 2020
Manitoba

Employment & Labour
Living Wage
Precarious Work & Gig Economy

Fast Facts: Manitoba Minimum Wage workers in poverty, face precarious work – new report
A new report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Manitoba office finds Manitoba’s $11.65 hourly minimum wage is insufficient to bring…
August 27, 2020
National Office

Monitor Print
News & Commentary
The Monitor

A litany of reports, but little accountability for police violence against Black Canadians
When it comes to anti-Black racism in Canadian policing, we don’t have an information gap, we have a police accountability gap. I’m reminded of this…
August 25, 2020
Ontario

News & Commentary

Chrystia Freeland’s golden opportunity
There’s a global pandemic. A deep recession. And a federal budget deficit the size of last year’s revenues. Chrystia Freeland is becoming finance minister in…
August 21, 2020
National Office

COVID-19
Just Recovery
News & Commentary

Prorogation’s silver lining: More time to press for a just recovery
I don’t know who first used “build back better” as a slogan for the post-COVID recovery. Today the rather awful catchphrase is unavoidable wherever you…
August 19, 2020
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BC

COVID-19
Income & Wages
Policy Note
Provincial Budgets
The Economy

Massive public investment, not austerity, is the answer
A depression is still around the corner if the Canadian government does not continue to radically intervene in the economy. We have all encountered the…
August 18, 2020
Ontario

News & Commentary

Queen’s Park makes plans for a decade of pain
Last week’s Ontario fiscal update gave us our first real glimpse of how Premier Doug Ford sees the post-pandemic world. Here’s his plan in a…
August 18, 2020

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