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  • Which tax, what middle class? Debunking the income splitting debate.

    When MPs head back to the Hill next week, we can expect an already heated debate about tax fairness to go up a few more degrees. At the heart of the matter is a decade-old tax loophole accessible to very few people and with very few spinoff benefits to the…

  • Sense of the Census: Income, wage gaps, and poverty

    New Census numbers released this week show that overall incomes have risen in the past ten years in Canada. This is excellent news. Economic growth driven by rising wages is growth we can feel, growth that translates into a better life. However, not all Canadians are having the same experience.…

  • Build a Better Nova Scotia: the Alternative Provincial Budget shows the way

    The Nova Scotia provincial government is set to introduce its promised balanced budget this year. The Nova Scotia Alternative Budget, released today, proposes some concrete choices rooted in Nova Scotia communities. Rather than pay down debt, the NS-APB prioritizes balancing the social debt threatening Nova Scotia. Can a budget really be…

  • Eliminate and replace it: A better way to reform the basic personal tax amount

    The new federal Liberal minority government has signalled that a tax cut will be its first order of policy business. That’s a shame because this tax cut will do little for those with low incomes while providing the most benefit to higher income households—and there are better ways to benefit…

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    The Burden of Concern

    The Healthy Environment, Healthy Neighbourhood Project Download 8.23 MB 196 pages The HEHN project documented first-hand experiences of Winnipeg residents in inner city and mature neighbourhoods who live near industrial and contaminated sites, most notably in Point Douglas and St. Boniface, in Winnipeg, 2023.

  • Budget 2023/24 Does not Make Up for Seven Years of Health Care Cuts and Privatization

    Manitoba health care is at a crossroads. From emergency care to home care, the entire system is at a breaking point caused by Pallister-era decisions to close emergency rooms and privatize services. Instead of stepping up to fix these problems, Premier Stefanson has carried on the same agenda of cuts…

  • Brandon University left behind in budget 2023

    As the old adage goes, budgets are not only a financial blueprint for a government’s plan but also demonstrate their choices and values. Manitoba’s universities have been under attack by the Manitoba Government. Since the 2017 budget, funding below the rate of inflation has resulted in a substantial revenue shortfall.…

  • Fast Facts: Giving Manitoba’s Working Families a Fair Shake:

    The 2016-17 Living Wage Update Notwithstanding stable economic growth and consistently low unemployment, poverty remains a problem in Manitoba. In 2014, 11 percent of Manitobans lived in low income. That’s down from 11.8 percent in 2011, however, child poverty continues to be stubbornly high, with the 2014 rate at 16.2…

  • Mural at First United Church, Vancouver, BC. Photo: Goh Iromoto.

    BC NDP-Green agreement offers historic opportunity for game-changing new policies

    What an interesting and exciting moment in BC politics! For a bunch of policy nerds like us at the CCPA, it doesn’t get much better than this. On Tuesday May 30, the BC NDP and BC Green Party released the terms of their agreement to cooperate and grant legislative confidence…

  • State of the BC Economy

    As we close out 2012, BC finds itself in some precarious economic waters. To recap, a massive housing bubble that built up through the naughties (2000s) finally burst in 2008, feeding a financial crisis, as extremely loose (some would say fraudulent) lending practices pushed housing prices up to spectacular, never-seen-before…

  • Errol Black: A truly remarkable life

    If we’re very lucky, every once in a while someone special will come into our lives. Errol Black was special. He would be the first to claim otherwise, and to insist that we are all special, he no more than others. That was Errol’s way. He was down-to-earth, friendly with…

  • Portrait of a diverse group of supportive women smiling while sitting together outdoors on patio during a summer wellness retreat
    Making Women Count

    Making Women Count

    The Unequal Economics of Women’s Work Download 3.44 MB 5 pages This study, co-published by CCPA and Oxfam Canada, looks at how women in Canada and around the world are affected by rising inequality, including the burden of unpaid work, the undervaluing of work in predominantly female fields, and the…