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  • Fast Facts: As wealthiest speed past the rest of us

    Manitoba needs to fight income inequality First published on CBC online July 8th, 2018 A Ferrari cruises down Portage Avenue past people lining the streets on lawn chairs on Sunday evening in Winnipeg. The $250,000 car purrs along the road, a symbol of incredible wealth. Meanwhile, other Winnipeggers struggle to…

  • Lowering Our Standards

    The right-wing Fraser Institute has released a paper that, if implemented, would dramatically lower our standards for worker pay, workers’ rights and workplace protections. It urges governments in Ontario and B.C. to adopt American-style “right-to-work” (RTW) laws which violate a core principle upheld in Canadian law: if a majority of…

  • Fast Facts: He Had a Dream

    Fifty years ago today, April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis Tennessee. James Earl Ray was convicted, but as Angela Davis said, “Racism was Martin Luther King’s assassin.” King was a brilliant leader in the African-American struggle for freedom in America’s Deep South. His name will…

  • Qu’est-ce que ça coûte pour élever une famille dans les provinces Maritimes ?

    Beaucoup plus qu’on penserait, comme démontre le nouveau rapport sur le salaire convenable CLIQUEZ ICI POUR CONSULTER LE RAPPORT. Halifax—Le montant dont une famille de quatre personnes a besoin quand les deux parents travaillent à temps plein- un salaire convenable–est 19 $ par l’heure à Halifax, 18,18 $ à Saint…

  • June 2006: Health Canada Delay Endangers Women

    Agency to regulate Human Reproduction Act still not set up March 29, 2006 was the second anniversary of the passage into law of Canada’s Assisted Human Reproduction (AHR) Act, an Act marking the culmination of years of hard work by many thoughtful Canadians of diverse perspectives. What should have been…

  • Nova Scotia has the worst provincial child poverty reduction record over 30 years—shows the 2021 Report Card

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT Halifax, NS—The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia (CCPA-NS) released the 2021 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia: Worst Provincial Performance over 30 Years. This report provides the 2021 Child and Family Poverty rates for Nova Scotia, based on…

  • Uber No Solution for Winnipeg

    Analysis of taxi and transport Conservative forces in the provincial legislature and at Winnipeg City Hall are combining to enable ride-sharing services such as Uber and allow its introduction into the Winnipeg market. Acting on recommendations of the December 2016 report prepared by accounting firm Myers, Norris, Penny (MNP) on…

  • February 2006: Your Pension Contributions at Work

    CPP is investing in bombs, tobacco, and corporate criminals We Canadians like to think that we play a benevolent role in the world as humanitarians and peacemakers. But is this impression always accurate? One place that reveals another side of Canada is the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB). The…

  • Labour Matters
    Trade Union Research Collective

    The Threat of Right-to-Work Laws and the Need for Social Solidarity

     A major confrontation is shaping up between progressive elements of Canadian society associated with the trade union movement and social democracy, and anti-union organizations (many of them inspired and guided by the National Right-to-Work Committee based in Virginia) that are seeking to eliminate the institutional arrangements that protect trade union…

  • Labour Matters

    Work Life: Government’s Directive is No Excuse

    Labour Rights Prevail First published in the Winnipeg Free Press February 9 2018 On January 29, 2018, the Manitoba Labour Board issued its ruling in favour of the University of Manitoba Faculty Association (UMFA) in the unfair labour practice (ULP) filed against the University of Manitoba (UM) in connection with…

  • The whimper of our discontent

    Outrage missing as Canadian values and standards trashed I think we have to realize that Canada is not immortal; but if it is going to go, let it go with a bang rather than a whimper. —Pierre Elliot Trudeau, testifying before the Canadian Senate in opposition to the Meech Lake…

  • Foreign trade issues playing out in BC

    Last week Premier Christy Clark took the unprecedented step of promising there would be public consultation regarding the Province’s position on the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between Canada and the European Union. If this really happens it would be an important opportunity.  The current government has never allowed…