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How the public sector is fighting income inequality (and why it's still not enough)

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Wednesday, February 28, 2024
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68 pages
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Pay practices in the public sector are helping to narrow Canada’s gender and immigration pay gap, which is key to reducing income inequality.

L’écart salarial entre les hommes et les femmes au Canada se rétrécit dans le secteur public

Le secteur public est plus équitable pour les femmes et les néo-Canadiens; le secteur privé privilégie les hommes et les cadres supérieurs
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Wednesday, February 28, 2024
OTTAWA— D’après un nouveau rapport du Centre canadien de politiques alternatives (CCPA), les pratiques salariales du secteur public contribuent à réduire les écarts de rémunération entre les sexes et selon le statut d’immigration au Canada, ce qui est essentiel pour réduire les inégalités de revenus.
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Le secteur public combat les inégalités, mais cela reste insuffisant

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Wednesday, February 28, 2024
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Les pratiques salariales du secteur public contribuent à réduire les écarts de rémunération entre les sexes et selon le statut d’immigration au Canada, ce qui est essentiel pour réduire les inégalités de revenus.

Our Schools/Our Selves - Winter/Spring 2024

Who loses from a commodified university education?
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Friday, February 9, 2024

In the neverending right-wing-led campaigns against social progress, public schools are frequently targeted. And there’s a reason: while battered and underfunded, these institutions are still symbolic of the actualization that we are more than just individual agents or even the sum of our parts; that differences needn’t divide; that a fairer, kinder future for all of us, starting with our kids, is always worth committing to, investing in and being collectively responsible for.

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Getting to net-zero in Canada

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Scale of the problem, government projections and daunting challenges
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Thursday, February 8, 2024
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Getting to Net-Zero in Canada: Scale of the problem, government projections and daunting challenges
Getting to Net-Zero in Canada: summary
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64 pages
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Despite the formidable challenges ahead, Canada’s path to net-zero is achievable with a clear, actionable plan that recognizes the scale of the undertaking and the limitations of potential solutions. This report underscores the need for a comprehensive strategy with practical, scalable solutions and a robust policy framework that will steer Canada toward a sustainable, net-zero future by 2050.

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2023 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia

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Families Deserve Action, Not Excuses
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Tuesday, January 30, 2024
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64 pages
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The 2023 report provides child and family poverty rates for Nova Scotia using 2021 data. The 2023 child poverty report card records a rate increase in Nova Scotia in 2021 from 18.4% to 20.5%—this 11.4% increase is the highest single-year increase since 1989 when the promise was made to eradicate child poverty by the year 2000. A poverty rate of 20.5% represents 35,330 children. 

A paradox in COVID-19 pandemic recovery

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Increased precarity of women hotel workers in British Columbia
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Wednesday, January 24, 2024
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A paradox in COVID-19 pandemic recovery
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This report documents the experiences of women hotel workers—a group of women who have been deeply affected by the COVID-19 pandemic but rarely represented in media, research or policy debates. It draws on focus groups and interviews with 27 women hotel workers in B.C., the majority of whom are immigrant and racialized women. Their lived experiences illustrate how pandemic responses initiated changes in the hotel sector that interacted with pre-existing inequities, challenging labour conditions and a devaluing of care work.