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Federal budget creates surplus instead of jobs: think tank
OTTAWA—Today’s federal budget will do little to revitalize Canada’s sluggish job market and slow economic growth due to collapsing corporate investment in the tar sands,…
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Ontario Equal Pay Day: Best Place For Women?
CMA Female Male Ratio Oshawa $35,955 $47,628 75% Ottawa-Gatineau $44,819 $60,257 74% Toronto $37,510 $52,190 72% St. Catharines-Niagara $27,546 $38,439 72%…
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The Nova Scotia Legislature: Our House, Their Rules?
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The TFSA Shouldn’t Be Scrapped, It Should Be Fixed: Budget 2015
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The Generations Fund: getting into debt for very little gain
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Got a problem? Privatize it (and pay the price for selling off Hydro One later).
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Doubling contribution limit to Tax-Free Savings Accounts exposes true intent of a bad policy
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A $15 minimum wage for BC would put a serious dent in working poverty
BC is a prosperous province in a prosperous country, but we have done a poor job of sharing that prosperity. Inequality in BC has increased…
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Fast Facts: Lessons from Toronto
Winnipeg’s Rooming House Challenge On April 16th, 2014, a fire broke out in a rooming house on Enfield Crescent in Winnipeg’s St. Boniface neighbourhood. The…
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We’re paying for $7/day child care, so why is only one province getting it?
Many Canadians don’t know that Quebec has the least expensive childcare in the country at $7/day (well actually $7.30 now). Meanwhile in Toronto parents pay $49/day, and in…
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$15 minimum wage will help families, reduce inequality; no evidence that sky will fall
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Vancouver – In the wake of the B.C. government’s shockingly low 20-cent increase to the minimum wage, a new report…
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Balanced Budget Legislation – another zombie policy returns from the dead
Ah, here we go again – when seeking to assert credibility as sound fiscal managers, governments reach for the tired gimmick of “balanced budget legislation”…
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