Economy and economic indicators
The Canadian forestry industry, long one of the stalwarts within the Canadian economy, is now at a precarious crossroads. “Crisis” is the term being used by union, business, and political leaders to describe the parlous state of the industry. An estimated 110,000 workers—about 25% of the entire forestry workforce--have been displaced in the past five years. Scores of sawmills, wood fabrication plants, and paper mills have been permanently or temporarily shut down.
Economics is too important to be left to the economists. Economics for Everyone is a brilliantly concise and readable book that provides non-specialist readers with all the information they need to understand how capitalism works (and how it doesn't).
Jim Stanford's book is an antidote to the abstract and ideological way that economics is normally taught and reported. Key concepts such as finance, competition and wage labour are explored, and their importance to everyday life is revealed.
OTTAWA—The federal government's planned corporate tax cuts will only exacerbate the existing inequalities in Canada's economy—both between regions and across industries, says a study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).
Toronto-based social policy analyst John Stapleton teaches us a valuable history lesson with his new piece The Last Recession Spook, released by the CCPA as part of its Ontario Alternative Budget technical paper series. This paper looks at the history of public investments during economic downturns and finds the ghost of the last recession (in the 1990s) still haunts Canadians, limiting our thinking of what’s possible to modest terms.
OTTAWA—Une décennie d'excédents budgétaires
fédéraux pourrait prendre fin si un ralentissement économique se matérialise en
2008, selon un document technique de l"Alternative budgétaire pour le
gouvernement fédéral, publié aujourd’hui par le Centre canadien de politiques
alternatives.