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  • Education Project

    Indigo’s “For the Love of Indigo” school library fundraising campaign

    Did you know that parents want their children to have access to well-stocked libraries in their schools? Were you aware that they’re very concerned that provincial governments aren’t doing enough to ensure that there’s enough money to pay for these books and libraries? Or that increasingly teachers have to dig…

  • Tackling inequality means rethinking upper-income tax rates

    2011 was the year rising inequality finally exploded into the mainstream discourse. A few year-end reading recommendations: Victoria Times-Colonist editorial writer Paul Willcocks wrote a terrific piece on the subject (you can find it here); and similarly, a group of UBC economists (including CCPA research associate David Green) authored a…

  • Fast Facts: Winnipeg Needs a Bed Bug Plan

    The thought of being bitten in the night by tiny, blood-sucking bed bugs is enough to make anyone cringe. But bed bugs are making an international comeback—to the point where a global “bed bug pandemic” is predicted. The increase in international travel, modern heating and air conditioning that provide more…

  • Our Deadliest Addiction

    Oil drives our commerce, but could drive us to extinction “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” – Heraclitus, 535 BC-475 BC *     *     * When European explorers first sighted a pristine Gulf of Mexico 500…

  • Media advisory: Economic experts available to comment on positive impact of minimum wage raise

    TORONTO, ONTARIO – With a business lobby-led economic impact assessment on Ontario’s Bill 148, Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, due out this August, economic experts are available to discuss the findings upon release, as well as the decades of research on the impacts of raising the minimum wage. Ontario’s Bill…

  • Tax Increment Financing and Social Enterprise

    Promoting Equitable Community Revitalization in Winnipeg Currently, Manitoba is one of only two provinces in Canada that utilizes Tax Increment Financing (TIF) as a means for financing community revitalization projects in municipalities, although it has a long history of use in the United States. In a TIF financing scheme, the…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    Ce n’est pas ce qu’on ajoute aux accords commerciaux, mais ce qu’on y enlève qui garantit leur caractère progressiste

    Le gouvernement fédéral veut nous faire croire que l’élection de 2015 a marqué le début d’une ère du « commerce progressiste » au Canada.

  • Occupy Canada Resources from the CCPA Vault

    With increased attention on the 99% emerging from the Occupy Wall Street movement, it’s time to open the CCPA vault on the issue. www.growinggap.ca is our dedicated website on income inequality, and it’s a treasure trove of facts and arguments documenting worsening income inequality in Canada and offering solutions to help…

  • Long overdue: Taking a closer look at university library funding

    As we continue to dig into university and college finances in Ontario, what becomes apparent is not only the change in revenue sources these institutions are experiencing (which we discuss here). There are also shifts in how and where institutions choose to spend their money. The current strike by college…

  • Statistics Canada’s Senseless Census Decision

    Open letter to the Honourable Tony Clement, Ministry of Industry and Minister Responsible for Statistics Canada and Munir Sheikh, Chief Statistician, Statistics Canada June 30, 2010 Open letter to the Honourable Tony Clement, Ministry of Industry and Minister Responsible for Statistics Canada and Munir Sheikh, Chief Statistician, Statistics Canada Dear…

  • Economic Security Project (BC)

    The Time is Now

    A Poverty Reduction Plan for BC https://vimeo.com/3346138 This is the first chapter in a narrated slideshow about poverty in British Columbia and what we can do about it. View the rest of the slideshow here: http://vimeo.com/channels/bcpovertyreduction. Features interviews with a parent struggling to make ends meet by working two jobs,…

  • Economic Security Project (BC)

    Poverty Amid Plenty

    A Slideshow About Welfare in BC https://vimeo.com/3593782 This is the first chapter from a narrated video slideshow about British Columbia’s welfare system. View the rest of the slideshow here: http://vimeo.com/channels/welfare. Welfare (or income assistance) is the program of last resort for people who find themselves without work, or who are…