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National Office

Environment & Sustainability
Reports

Petrol’s Paid Pipers
Are the tar sands calling the tune in Alberta’s classrooms? Download 123.45 KB 13 pages “Petrol’s Paid Pipers,” from the Winter 2011 Our Schools /…
February 16, 2011
National Office

Corporations & Corporate Power
Economic Indicators

Should you care who owns the Toronto Stock Exchange?
So maybe you didn’t lose a night’s sleep when the TMX group, the owner of the Toronto Stock Exchange, announced plans to merge with the…
February 16, 2011
BC

Employment & Labour
Income & Wages
Policy Note
Transparency & Accountability

Raising the minimum wage: not if but how much and how fast
While lone voices from the business sector still oppose a minimum wage increase (as in this article in The Province), the minimum wage debate in…
February 10, 2011
National Office

News & Commentary

BNN and the growing gap
For the past few weeks, a business leader could scarcely pick up a magazine without bumping into that other inconvenient truth of our era: rising…
February 10, 2011
BC

Employment & Labour
Reports

Myths and Facts About the Minimum Wage in BC
Behind the Numbers Download 397.68 KB4 pages Iglika Ivanova sets out a compelling argument for raising the minimum wage — in just four-pages of clear,…
February 9, 2011
National Office

Child Care
Gender Equality
Human Rights

Feminism FOR REAL
Deconstructing the academic industrial complex of feminism When feminism becomes its own form of oppression, what do we have to say about it? Western notions…
February 7, 2011
Manitoba

Child Care
Infrastructure, Cities & Transit
Tax Policy

Fast Facts: Reverse the Cuts to Anti-Gang Programs
Recent reports that federal funding for four anti-gang programs in Winnipeg will end in March raise the issue, yet again, of how our tax dollars…
February 7, 2011
BC

Climate Change
Employment & Labour
Policy Note
The Economy

Christy Clark’s “sustained development”
A news release from the Christy Clark camp puts its focus on energy policy in BC. While the press release reads as slickly as its…
February 1, 2011
National Office

Income & Wealth Inequality

National Child Neglect
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) annually puts out figures comparing infant mortality rates in countries around the world. Perhaps the biggest story…
February 1, 2011

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