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The Lion’s Share
Pension deficits and shareholder payments among Canada’s largest companies Download 328.47 KB26 pages This study examines the status of the defined benefit (DB) pension plans of…
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2017 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia
Download 1.14 MB46 pages This year’s Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia identifies a slight decrease in child poverty, with 1,600 children…
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Canada’s largest companies prioritizing shareholder payouts over pension contributions
OTTAWA—Last year, Canada’s largest publicly-traded companies paid out four times more to shareholders than it would have cost to fully fund their defined benefit (DB) pension…
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Time for a New Social Contract to Eradicate Child and Family Poverty
Halifax – The 2017 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia reveals that 35,870 children or more than 1 in 5 children…
Challenges persist: Community-based mental health in BC
In 2006, I wrote the report, “Community Based Mental Health in BC: Changes to Income, Employment and Housing Supports” to explain policy changes that had…
KPMG: Reasons to be skeptical of the advice they offer
It is curious that the Pallister government would have hired consulting firm KPMG to provide advice on how to manage the Province’s affairs. KPMG’s actions…
CCPA comments on the Omnitrax NAFTA lawsuit
Senior Trade Fellow Scott Sinclair, who directs the CCPA’s Trade and Investment Research Project, spoke to CBC Manitoba’s Ismaila Alfa on November 14 about Omnitrax’s…