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  • Le coût de la pauvreté dans les provinces de l’Atlantique

    Download 450.68 KB24 pages Le but de ce rapport est de souligner le coût pour les gouvernements provinciaux qui ne répondent pas aux besoins de la population. La région de l’Atlantique a dû investir pour faire face à la pandémie, premièrement en termes de ressources en soins de santé, et…

  • COVID-19: Neoliberalism’s Chernobyl

    COVID-19 has been called neoliberalism’s Chernobyl with good cause. The capacity of our public system to adapt in the face of a sudden and major threat had been all but undermined by four decades of underfunding, leaving the hollowed out remains scrambling to adjust course.

    COVID-19 has been called neoliberalism’s Chernobyl with good cause. The capacity of our public system to adapt in the face of a sudden and major threat had been all but undermined by four decades of underfunding, leaving the hollowed out remains scrambling to adjust course.

  • The job market may be recovering but some jobs are not coming back

    A recent article in The New York Times illustrates this point with the story of an unemployed administrative assistant in her 50s, who has not been able to find a job for over two years after being laid off. As the journalist explains, her difficulties are likely not the result…

  • The U.K. having problems with its P3s

    Britain, which led the charge for public private partnerships under both Conservative and Labour governments over the past decades, is now seeing problems with the projects. This month the new coalition government cancelled the controversial Building Schools for the Future program.  Michael Gove, the Conservative Secretary of State for Education…

  • Don’t count out medicare yet

    Beware of stumping politicians with poker faces and empty hands These days, public health care seems like a high-stakes TV poker game complete with bluffers willing to gamble its future away. For the third election in a row, health care is the top of mind issue. And, for the third…

  • The “Unsustainability Myth”

    Don’t believe claims Medicare is becoming unaffordable Total health care spending in Canada has been rising in recent years, taking larger shares of government revenues and budgets. It has been accused of “crowding out” government funding of other important public services. Some economists and pundits are now predicting that, left…

  • Budget 2017: death by 1,000 cuts

    Social Policy Lowlights Despite pundits’ claims that “its not as bad as it could be” there are a myriad of program cuts and tax cuts in this budget. As the weeks go by more impacts will invariably be felt in our community. Yet poverty and social inequality continue to grow…

  • Fast Facts: We have a floor, now we need a ceiling

    Reducing Canada’s income inequalities In recent decades we’ve seen a dramatic increase in income inequality, which has concentrated the gains from economic growth in the hands of a small minority at the top of the income distribution. Studies documenting this development cite an unprecedented increase in the amount paid to…

  • Budget 2017/18 No Strategy No Change to Poverty

    Low income Manitobans were hoping that this year’s budget would offer a plan to help lift them out of poverty. A well-funded strategy with targets and timelines for its implementation and for reducing poverty would give Manitobans confidence that their government is making poverty reduction a top priority. However, despite…

  • Throwing STC Under the Bus

    There are several compelling questions raised by government’s recent decision to wind down the Saskatchewan Transportation Company. For the most deeply affected, the questions are along the lines of How am I going to get to my cancer treatments now? But even those of us not directly impacted by the…

  • Alternative Federal Budget

    Wanted: more walk, less talk in today’s federal budget

    OTTAWA—The federal government missed a key opportunity to walk the walk and tackle income inequality in today’s federal budget, says Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ Senior Economist David Macdonald. “While there are some positive aspects to Budget 2017,” Macdonald says, “let’s not mistake this for the bold, visionary inequality reduction…

  • Tax Fairly, Spend Wisely

    According to CBC news, 45% of Canadians wait until the last week before the deadline to file their tax returns. The mad pencil sharpening, digging through receipts and online filing is unlikely to generate a great deal of goodwill towards the tax collector. Perhaps this is why the Winnipeg Free…