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“People are struggling across this country like I have never seen before in my lifetime.”

The following is a re-print of the January 2024 edition of Shift Storm, the CCPA’s monthly newsletter which focuses on the intersection of work and…

“Right now, Canada is the only country with universal health care that does not offer coverage for prescription drugs, including contraceptives.

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…

This analysis examines hourly pay in 2023, with a view to understanding differences between public and private pay practices. The public sector is broadly defined,…

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…

Today, there is an international conversation in former slave-trading nations about the intergenerational economic, social and cultural effects of the transatlantic slave trade.

OTTAWA—Pay practices in the public sector are helping to narrow Canada’s gender and immigration pay gap, which is key to reducing income inequality, says a…

“For the day when some conjunction of circumstances creates a will for change; that day belongs to those who have practical ideas ready.” —Tom Kent, Chair…

The artist statement reads: The central portrait in my piece is of Gazan journalist Bisan Owda. As a Jew, secular or agnostic as I may…

In the never-ending 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…

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