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  • Growing Gap
    Making Women Count

    Gender gap leaves Canadian women “leaning in” for the next 228 years: study

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—Without a change in public policy, Canada’s gender gap won’t go away anytime soon, says a new study from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). The study, by CCPA Research Associate Kate McInturff, looks at Canada’s progress in closing the gap between…

  • Labour Matters
    Trade Union Research Collective

    Work Life: An Ounce of Suppression Prevents a Pound of Cure

    This April 28 we will commemorate the National Day of Mourning for workers killed or injured on the job. This yearly tribute is a somber reminder that far too many workers deal with unacceptably dangerous conditions while on the job. According to the Canadian Labour Congress more than 1,000 Canadian…

  • Liberal/NDP deal no “Faustian Bargain”

    So there is an agreement in principle between the Liberals and the NDP.  In return for helping to prevent this government from falling before it can even get the 2005 Budget passed, the NDP has extracted promises of about $4.6 billion in new spending, plus a roll-back of future tax…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    Time to draw a line in the sand

    NAFTA and the softwood lumber dispute In the lead-up to the NAFTA leaders’ meeting in Waco Texas, former free trade negotiator Gordon Ritchie called on Prime Minister Martin to ask US President George Bush to muzzle his trade officials who, he said, are threatening to destroy the NAFTA dispute settlement…

  • Your BC income taxes are lower than you think

    As we approach tax filing time, here’s a little context regarding your BC income taxes… One of the problems plaguing debates about taxes in BC is that people think they pay much more in provincial income taxes than they actually do. For example, if I suggested that everyone pay 20%…

  • Fast Facts: More cells not the answer

    A recent editorial in the Winnipeg Free Press (“Programs won’t solve jail crisis” Feb 8, 2013) by the President of the Manitoba Government Employees Union (MGEU) calls on the province to continue building more jails as a response to jail overcrowding. Given recent changes to legislation that will cause the…

  • The City of Regina’s Unquenchable Thirst for Bad Ideas

    It seems the City of Regina just can’t get enough of bad deals. Hot on the heels of the City Plaza debacle and the stadium funding mess, the City has now announced its intention to enter into a 30-year contract with a private corporation to upgrade its waste water treatment facilities. Just as the City seems…

  • Labour Matters
    Trade Union Research Collective

    Fast Facts: Six Unions, One Voice

    This Wednesday, February 13, the six unions operating on the University of Manitoba campus will unite with one voice. The University of Manitoba Faculty Association (UMFA), Canadian Autoworkers (CAW) Local 3007, The Canadian Union of Public Employees 1482 (CUPE), CUPE 3909, The University Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU) and the Association…

  • A government blunder teaches us how not to buy helicopters

    The botched procurement of F-35 stealth fighter jets has attracted much attention, and rightly so at $40-billion and counting. But the F-35s are not the ugliest example of Defence Department incompetence. That dubious honour belongs to the Sikorsky CH-148 Cyclone maritime helicopter, which, as Defence Minister Peter MacKay himself admitted…

  • Aboriginal Peoples Fight For All Canadians

    We should join the First Nations in becoming “idle no more” The day after Stephen Harper finally agreed (Jan. 4, 2013) to meet with First Nations leaders, alert readers of the National Post’s on-line edition for Jan. 5 may have experienced a moment of cognitive dissonance. The headline stated: “Idle…

  • Living Wage Policy: Why Municipal Governments should lead the way

    By Michael McCarthy Flynn and Seth Klein The Living Wage for Families Campaign, along with 54 organizations representing over 300,000 British Columbians, recently issued an Open Letter calling on all municipal election candidates to help low-income families in their cities by passing a Living Wage policy if they are elected…

  • Living wage policy —why municipal governments should lead the way

    The Living Wage for Families Campaign, along with 54 organizations representing over 300,000 British Columbians, recently issued an Open Letter calling on all municipal election candidates to help low-income families in their cities by passing a Living Wage policy if they are elected. Many families are struggling to get by;…