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    Most and least expensive cities for child care: 4 key takeaways for BC

    A new CCPA report reveals staggering disparities in parents’ experiences with child care across the country. Prices are highest in Toronto and lowest in cities in Quebec where child care is heavily subsidized by the provincial government. Cities in Manitoba and PEI, the other two provinces in Canada that set…

  • Fast Facts: How a Living Wage can reduce poverty in Manitoba

    In this time of economic turmoil, living-wage policies are one way to stimulate our local economy. A living-wage policy is employed by at least 122 US cities and being considered by more than 70 other US cities. Many large corporations in Europe have adopted a living-wage policy. A living-wage is…

  • Study reveals the most and least expensive cities for child care in 2016

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—A new study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) updates the most and least expensive cities for child care in Canada. The study, the third in a series beginning in 2014, provides an annual snapshot of median parental child…

  • Une étude révèle les villes canadiennes où les garderies coûtent le plus cher et le moins cher en 2016

    CLIQUEZ ICI POUR CONSULTER LE RAPPORT OTTAWA — Le Centre canadien de politiques alternatives (CCPA) a dévoilé aujourd’hui une nouvelle étude qui révèle les villes où les garderies sont les plus abordables et les moins abordables au Canada. Cette étude, la troisième d’une série lancée en 2014, présente un instantané…

  • Tax Day’s Birthday Presence

    This year, once again, I’ll celebrate my birthday as Canadians file their tax returns. I was born on April 30th. And considering my line of work, that coincidence might be ironic. Or perhaps just particularly appropriate. I know, I know. Taxes, right? But the thing is, I’ve never been one…

  • Recap of our 2016 Rosenbluth Lecture with Pierre Fortin

    This year, CCPA-BC’s annual Gideon Rosenbluth Memorial Lecture featured economist Pierre Fortin, who shared lessons from Quebec’s experience with low-fee, publicly funded child care. Professor Fortin spoke about research he conducted with colleagues at the University of Sherbrooke, which found that for every $1 invested in the Quebec child care…

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    BC’s higher-than-expected surplus is a wasted opportunity

    BC is on track to have a massive budget surplus this year according to the November update on provincial finances. At the end of the second quarter of the fiscal year, we’re looking at a surplus of $2.24 billion. This is $300 million more than what the September budget update…

  • McGuinty Budget Would Cut Over 100,000 Jobs

    Last week, the Ontario Public Service Employees Union released an interesting report by the Centre for Spatial Economics on the economic impact of proposed provincial budget cuts. It provides a timely reminder that the public sector is a crucial component of the economy, with public spending also supporting many private-sector jobs. The Centre for…

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    BC Tax Commission focuses on business and not the rest of us

    This fall we presented recommendations to the provincial government’s “Commission on Tax Competitiveness”, which released its final report today. But the Commission suffered from a basic flaw: an exclusive focus on business taxes. What about how BC’s overall tax system affects the large majority of British Columbians? The Commission’s terms…

  • Fast Facts: Community looking for action plan from province on poverty

    When Lieutenant Governor Janice Filmon delivers the throne speech on November 21, a plan for poverty reduction should top the government’s priority list. The Province has promised a plan by next year’s budget and Manitobans are waiting for details. Poverty comes in many forms, most of them hidden from public…

  • Inside job: How BC Hydro customers wound up bankrolling private power companies

    The chickens have finally come home to roost on the previous BC government’s private power giveaway. The just-released provincial report by Ken Davidson on the costs of BC Hydro’s power purchases is a damning indictment of its electricity policies—policies whose exorbitant and wholly unnecessary costs will saddle BC ratepayers with…

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    False advertising by the Alberta government and oil lobby

    As an Alberta-born and -raised earth scientist who has made a career studying fossil fuels and energy issues, I am dismayed at the bombardment of ‘fake news’ in print, online and TV ads from the Alberta government on the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion (TMX). These ads are repeated hourly on…