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Fast Facts: Can a Housing First Initiative Work?
Homelessness is a major problem in Winnipeg. In 2014 the Winnipeg Poverty Reduction Council estimated that at any time approximately 350 individuals stayed in one…
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Emmanuel Saez on income and wealth inequality
Download the slides (PDF) Emmanuel Saez discusses income and wealth inequality—including the role of technology and globalization, education, government regulations and tax policy—based on…
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The Monitor, December 2014/January 2015
Download 1.94 MB Click the download button above to download this issue of The Monitor or click to read a selection of articles below: From…
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Hennessy’s Index: December 2014
Billionaires Hennessy’s Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy, about Canada and its place in the world. For other…
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Who’s the boss? “The Elf on the Shelf” and the normalization of surveillance
Are we using play to prepare children to accept increasingly intrusive surveillance?
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And then there was one: BC is now last province without a plan to tackle poverty
On October 22, the Government of Saskatchewan announced in their Throne Speech that it would commit to the development of a poverty reduction strategy, making…
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Refuting the tired claims of those opposed to minimum wage increases
In a Vancouver Sun opinion piece, Laura Jones of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business warns against minimum wage increases, calling it “Fa-la-la economics”. Perhaps…
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Inequality is falling in Canada, but not for the reasons you think
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It’s time to seriously tackle child poverty
One in five BC children lives in poverty. This is the sobering finding of the 2014 BC Child Poverty Report Card released on November 24th,…
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