Inflation and soaring living costs have caused unprecedented increases in the living wage across BC. This report shows the living wage has increased in all communities where it has been calculated in the past and is driven by two essentials that every family needs: food and shelter.
As cities around the world lead on climate action, recognition is growing that success often hinges on whether policies designed to address climate change also promote equity. As the City of Regina pursues its goal of becoming 100 percent renewable by 2050, Emily Eaton and Simon Enoch consider what other cities have done to successfully incorporate equity concerns into municipal climate policy. By understanding the best climate equity practices of other municipalities, we can ensure an equitable made-in-Regina climate action plan that leaves no one behind.
OTTAWA—Despite doomsday predictions that the pandemic would hit Canada’s already financially strapped provinces with an even greater blow, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) is showing that most provinces today have enough funds to pay for the programs Canadians rely on to survive and thrive.
In Flush With Cash: The provinces are richer than they think, CCPA Senior Economist David Macdonald reveals that 10 out of 10 provinces have already experienced surpluses or will soon. Nine out of 10 of them are projecting that they will have better finances than before the pandemic started.
The 1980s were an era of great debate over the right’s push for a “free trade” agenda that the CCPA, among many other progressive organizations, warned would cost jobs, weaken environmental standards, and lock in neoliberal austerity.
On September 26, 2022, iAffairs Canada, in partnership with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and the Institute of Political Economy, hosted a virtual book launch discussing the contributions of the latest volume of Canada Among Nations (2021).
Join us on November 2nd for a webinar with economist Jim Stanford as he looks at the current state of our economy. Jim’s talk will break down the factors that have led to current inflation and how by relying on raising interest rates and not looking a
The unmitigated, seasonal, and repeated spread of COVID-19 is forecasting disaster as a mass disabling event. Not only does it represent the ableist exclusion of immunocompromised Canadians, many of whom will have become so as a result of the pandemic itself, it also suggests a continuous hemorrhaging of workers through chronic illness in already tight labour pools. Research shows that structural answers can help mitigate some of the risk, and get us closer to achieving a Canada that’s accessible to all: We have to fix the air we breathe.
Nova Scotia’s living wages are calculated annually to reflect changing living expenses.
Nova Scotia’s living wage rates for 2022 are: Annapolis Valley ($22.40), Cape Breton ($20.00), Halifax ($23.50), Northern ($20.40), and Southern ($22.55). The wages all increased from between 5% and 8%.
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