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Budget Fédéral Alternatif 2023
Se mesurer au defi Download 3.59 MB 214 pages Le Canada se trouve à un carrefour. Nous sommes confrontés à de nombreux problèmes pressants qui…
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CETA at five: working as intended but not as promised
In some areas, the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) is worse than we predicted. We present five reasons why we’re not celebrating its fifth anniversary.
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BC private schools to collect $491 million in public funding this year
Private schools will collect nearly half a billion dollars in public funding from the provincial government during this school year in British Columbia. This is…
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Falling Behind: Service and Wage decline at the City of Winnipeg
Download 597.92 KB 24 pages The City of Winnipeg is experiencing difficulty retaining and recruiting employees to deliver key public services due to low wages…
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What we’re watching as parliament resumes
Parliament has returned from its summer break. We’re expecting a packed—and heated— agenda.
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Five reasons supply matters to the housing crisis
VANCOUVER — As municipal and provincial leaders gather for the Union of BC Municipalities convention this week, housing affordability is a key issue on the…
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Hate the high cost of rent? Blame the 1990s.
Bewildered by the high cost of housing? Wondering how we got to this place in Canada? To understand why we’re here now, we need to look back thirty years to policy decisions being made in the early 1990s.
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Gender-based violence’s disproportionate impact on 2SLGBTQ+ communities
We’re failing 2SLGBTQIA+ communities amidst rising gender-based violence because policy-makers still don’t understand intersectionality.
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Putting an end to the student debt sentence
Student debt forgiveness has sparked hope in the U.S. Canada should pay attention.
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Living Wages in Nova Scotia 2022
Working for a Living, Not Living to Work Download 546.48 KB 36 pages Nova Scotia’s living wages are calculated annually to reflect changing living expenses. Nova…
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Show me the money: It’s not a worker shortage, it’s a wage shortage
Two-thirds of job postings are offering wages that are too low to entice applicants. Employers are going to have to be more competitive to fill those jobs.
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