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The crumbling foundation of Medicare in BC
British Columbians are fed a stream of bad news about our public health care system. But there is one very common health story we rarely hear about. A 100 year old woman, almost totally blind, has all her home support services cut. A 90 year old woman loses her home…
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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.…
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Doubling TFSA Contributions Limits: Even Nastier than Income Splitting
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Fast Facts: Upholding the Legacy of Joseph Zuken: Roz Usiskin Citizen Activist
In 2017, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Manitoba (CCPA-MB) assumed responsibility for the Joseph Zuken Citizen Activist Award, which was established in 1987. Joe Zuken was a legend in Winnipeg’s North End. He was a lawyer and politician. He served for 42 consecutive years as a School Trustee and Winnipeg…
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The fateful summer of 1962
Foes of Medicare turn Douglas’s dream into a nightmare As a witness to the birth of Medicare in Canada, and as someone who played a small part in bringing it to life during the stormy summer of 1962 in Saskatchewan, I am sickened now by the spectacle of its slow…
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Fast Facts: Make Homelessness History
Homelessness has recently been much in the news, because of the tragic deaths of three homeless people in Winnipeg and also because of the Canadian Housing and Renewal Association’s National Congress on Housing and Homelessness, held last week in Winnipeg. Canada is one of the very few advanced industrialized countries…
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Fast Facts: Rooming Houses to Rooming Homes
In Winnipeg’s inner city, and especially in West Broadway and Spence neighbourhoods, older homes converted to rooming houses are an important type of housing for many people living on low incomes. However, rooming houses are fast disappearing due to an uncoordinated policy and regulatory framework and market pressures. In addition,…
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Why a PST cut is a bad idea and directions for reform: A backgrounder on consumption taxation in BC
The BC Liberals have made a bold policy announcement that appears to be the centrepiece of their campaign: a one-year rollback of the 7% Provincial Sales Tax (PST), followed by a reduction to 3% until the COVID-19 pandemic is over (although in reality there would be strong pressure to stay…
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EI woes: Canada’s unemployed continue to be ignored
Memo from the Prime Minister’s Office to Canada’s unemployed: it sucks to be you. After waiting an entire summer for Harper’s minority government to finally agree to fix Canada’s inadequate Employment Insurance (EI) system – which the government did only when its electoral back was up against the wall –…
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Public policy in Canada remains haunted by large deficits that prevailed in the 1980s and early 1990s. With COVID-19 economic response pushing the federal deficit to an estimated $343 billion in 2020/21, some pundits are starting to beat the deficit panic drum again. Don’t let big numbers scare you. Here’s…
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The Left is Left Behind
If the left is right, politically, why isn’t it more popular? One of the scariest aspects of the current economic crisis is that its perpetrators have been by far its chief beneficiaries. Their barbaric neoliberal policies, disastrous financial practices, and subservient governments, far from being discredited, are being rewarded —…
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Work Life: The October 7, 2020 Speech from the Throne
CCPA-MB response The five commitments made by the provincial government show that Manitobans can expect more austerity in the coming months. The five commitments are: Protecting health care with ‘record’ new investments; Protecting jobs and creating more jobs with new investment and business supports; Reducing taxes; Building a ‘first-class’ K-12…
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