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Employment & Labour
Income & Wages
Policy Note
Tax Policy
The Economy

Which is more important, lower taxes or a higher minimum wage?
BC Labour Minister Murray Coell apparently got taken to the woodshed this week after telling a forum at the Union of BC Municipalities that his…
October 2, 2010
BC

Employment & Labour
Policy Note
Tax Policy
The Economy

We told you so: HST introduction a factor behind GDP drop in July
Among the concerns about the HST that we at the CCPA have raised was the poor timing of the tax change. From my pre-budget piece…
October 1, 2010
National Office

Employment & Labour
International
Law & Legal Issues

“Two Step” Immigration
Canada’s new immigration system raises troubling issues Over the last 10 years, the barriers that immigrants to Canada face in integrating economically, socially, and politically…
October 1, 2010
National Office

Economic Indicators
Employment & Labour
Government Finance

Neo-Con Economics and Canadian Well-Being
Neoliberalism cause of the worst recession since the 1930s… “The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are…
October 1, 2010
National Office

Archives
The Monitor

As David Johnson Enters Rideau Hall…
The Crown’s role in our government needs to be understood With the Queen’s visit in the summer and a new Governor-General taking office this fall,…
October 1, 2010
National Office

Environment & Sustainability
Health Care
Law & Legal Issues

Dangerous Cargo
Nuclear waste to be transported through the Great Lakes Critics on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border are slamming a plan by Bruce Power, Canada’s…
October 1, 2010
National Office

Human Rights
Income & Wealth Inequality
International

Back to the “Good” Old Days
Child labour rampant in Asia, serfdom on the rise here “The disparity in income between the rich and the poor is merely the survival of…
October 1, 2010
BC

Children & Youth
Income & Wages
Policy Note

New voices in support of a BC poverty reduction plan
Two important new voices joined the call for a BC poverty reduction plan in the last couple days. First, on Tuesday, BC Provincial Health Officer…
September 30, 2010
BC

Climate Change
Environment & Sustainability
Policy Note

So what’s a green job, anyway?
Today CCPA released a new report by myself and Ken Carlaw, an economist at UBC-Okanagan, called Climate Justice, Green Jobs and Sustainable Production in BC.…
September 30, 2010

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