After more than two decades, and on this 35th anniversary of the CCPA, the Monitor is rebooting to seize new political opportunities and adapt to technological challenges.
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A Penny For Your Thoughts
How corporatization devalues teaching, research, and public service in Canada’s universities
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Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Simmering conflicts in higher education have reached the boiling point across Canada and around the globe. Teach-ins, occupations, strikes, and mass protests are being mobilized against exorbitant tuition fees, declining educational quality, mismanagement, the commodification of research, and the suppression of free speech and critical inquiry. A Penny For Your Thoughts shows how Canadian higher education has come to this point.
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[Preview] Table of Contents, Preface & Introduction
Is it possible to save costs while improving health? Armine Yalnizyan in Le Devoir
Everyone wants to bend the health care cost curve. Is it possible to save costs while improving health? Public health measures—like clean drinking water, vaccinations, and smoking cessation programs—have done so for over a century. New population-based health measures have never been more important, but sometimes they collide with the "economic growth" imperative.
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The Monitor, May/June 2015
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Welcome to Your New Monitor
Release Date:
Friday, May 1, 2015
After more than two decades, the Monitor is rebooting to seize new political opportunities and adapt to technological challenges. To reach that audience, in a post–Web 2.0 age, the Monitor needed to be much more than a bulletin, so we’re giving it a little pop.
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The Monitor, May/June 2015
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The Union Card
Sub Title:
A Ticket Into Middle Class Stability
Release Date:
Friday, May 1, 2015
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The Union Card: A Ticket Into Middle Class Stability
Number of pages in documents:
40 pages
This report examines 30 years of unionization and income data to examine the impact of union decline on the mobility of Canada’s middle class. The resulting findings contribute a new addition to our understanding of middle class economics, and reveal that unionization is not just about a wage premium — it affects workers’ location along the middle spectrum of the income ladder.
Click here to view and share our infographic, The Middle Class Squeeze.
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Infographic: The Middle Class Squeeze
Did you know that the loss of private sector union jobs in Canada is putting a squeeze on the middle class? Unionization isn't just about a wage premium—it affects workers’ location along the middle spectrum of the income ladder.
Check out our infographic below, and learn more about the impact of union decline on the mobility of Canada’s middle class in our report,The Union Card: A Ticket Into Middle Class Stability.
Living wage in Metro Vancouver rises to $20.68
Each year we work with the Living Wage for Families Campaign and First Call to calculate the hourly wage that would allow a two-parent family with two children to cover basic expenses. This year it's $20.68.
Read more: Working for a Living Wage 2015.
Check out #livingwage on Twitter, too!
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Living wage rises again in 2015
Release Date:
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
(Vancouver) A report released today finds that the wage needed to cover the costs of raising a family in Metro Vancouver is $20.68 per hour. This is the 2015 Metro Vancouver living wage rate, the hourly wage that two working parents with two young children must earn to meet their basic expenses (including rent, child care, food and transportation), once government taxes, credits, deductions and subsidies have been taken into account.
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Working for a Living Wage 2015
Sub Title:
Making Paid Work Meet Basic Family Needs in Metro Vancouver
Release Date:
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
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Working for a Living Wage 2015
Living Wage Calculation Guide 2015
Living Wage Calculation Spreadsheet 2015
Working for a Living Wage 2008 - Original Full Report 2008
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8 pages
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Please note: The updated 2019 Living Wage report is now available.
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A New Economy Needs Child Care
Release Date:
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
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A New Economy Needs Child Care
Number of pages in documents:
10 pages
This publication examines the Nova Scotia government’s investment in the early years, and finds that it is shamefully inadequate. The report makes it clear that that the lack of financial support for Early Learning and Child Care (ELCC) neglects a significant and growing body of evidence that this investment pays dividends in spades: it is critical for labour force development, will help retain and attract people to our communities, and provides an overall boost to the economy.
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