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  • Nurses’ work deserves attention during the Ontario election

    This winter, a bad flu season that resulted in overcrowded emergency rooms shone a light on the need for a reinvestment in Ontario’s health care system.  There were crushing workloads for nurses and health care workers, whose jobs are becoming increasingly precarious—thanks to austerity measures. Starting in 2012-13, the Ontario…

  • Going for gold on minimum wages

    As we prepare to cheer for our athletes during the upcoming Olympic and Paralympic games, it’s worth remembering the fields in which BC isn’t going for the gold. Ensuring that work is a guaranteed way out of poverty, for example. It’s a little known fact, but the “the best place…

  • A missed opportunity to help people with disabilities: BC Budget 2018

    I approached BC’s February budget full of hope. It was the first full budget by an NDP government in 17 years and had been hyped as a spending budget. As a disabled woman and disability advocate, I was encouraged to see an image including someone in a wheelchair on the…

  • Record-breaking CEO pay now 209 times more than average worker

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA – For the first time, Canada’s 100 highest paid CEOs netted 209 times more than the average worker made in 2016, according to a new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). The report shows the country’s highest 100 paid CEOs on…

  • Climbing Up and Kicking Down

    Executive Pay in Canada Download 927.52 KB23 pages CLIQUEZ ICI POUR CONSULTER LE RAPPORT EN FRANCAIS The eleventh in an annual series, this year’s report on CEO compensation finds that, for the first time, Canada’s 100 highest paid CEOs netted 209 times more than the average worker made in 2016.…

  • How Workers’ Compensation cut costs for employers and benefits for injured workers

    A report published by the BC Federation of Labour last week finds that since 2002 employers have saved hundreds of millions of dollars in Workers’ Compensation expenses at the cost of reduced benefits to injured workers. I never cease to be amazed that such a report, which outlines the hardship…

  • Wishing away child poverty

    This past week, local CTV news ran a series on child poverty called “BC’s Shame”. They’ve posted the series on their website, along with the full interview reporter Mi-Jung Lee had with Premier Campbell about child poverty. The series was very good, but the premier’s comments were disappointing. Premier Campbell…

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    Seven immediate steps to reduce poverty while the government consults on a comprehensive poverty reduction plan

    Earlier this week, the BC government appointed an Advisory Forum on Poverty Reduction to provide expertise and assistance to the Minster of Social Development and Poverty Reduction in the development of a comprehensive poverty reduction strategy for BC. The 27 people named to the Forum represent communities across the province…

  • Minimum Wage: Staying the course right decision

    The Minimum Wage Review Committee, with representatives from labour and business organizations at the table, is an example of how public policy should be made –based on meaningful participation from those who understand the issues from different perspectives, and using a solid evidence-base. But missing from the table is a…

  • Fast Facts: Income Security to End Poverty in Manitoba

    Income security programs in Manitoba and Canada are not keeping pace with the growing problem of poverty. Change is needed to ensure low income and vulnerable people and families do not become entrapped in a lifetime of poverty. Canada’s Income Assistance (IA) and Manitoba’s Employment and Income Assistance (EIA) programs…

  • Labour Matters

    Work Life: Take the Politics out of Pensions

    In a new Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives MB report on Manitoba’s public-sector pensions Pensions in Manitoba: What’s Working, What’s Not, What’s a Solution and What’s Not, author Hugh Mackenzie dispels many myths about public and private sector pensions. He anchors his analysis in the context of Canada’s retirement income…

  • Education Project

    Our Schools/Our Selves: Fall 2001

    DIRT(1) Cheap: Students for sale and the tilting of a scale Abstract This paper illustrates how parents, teachers and school administrators have been quietly and unknowingly enlisted as accomplices in the sale of children to commercial interests. This facet of the economic imperative is obscured by the siren call of…