TORONTO – Despite an increasingly diverse population, a new report on Canada’s racialized income gap shows a colour code is still at work in Canada’s labour market.
Canada’s Colour Coded Labour Market, co-produced by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) and the Wellesley Institute, draws on 2006 Census data to compare work and income trends among racialized and non-racialized Canadians. It’s among the more comprehensive post-Census studies on this issue to date.
Employment and labour
This report draws on 2006 Census data to compare work and income trends among racialized and non-racialized Canadians. The authors find that the work racialized Canadians are able to attain is more likely to be insecure, temporary and low paying, and that despite an increasingly diverse population, a colour code is firmly in place.
Watch the video below (featuring the report's authors, Grace-Edward Galabuzi and Sheila Block) to find out more about the gap facing Canada's racialized workers:
In a recent article in the Winnipeg Free Press entitled “Reforming the Jurassic Crown” (Feb 26), law professor Bryan Schwartz launches an unwarranted assault on Manitoba Hydro by means of an argument that is intellectually bankrupt. Despite the subterfuge and without an outright clarion call to action, his argument could be used to lay the seeds for a rationale for a future government to privatize an outstandingly successful publicly owned corporation. This is in keeping with a long-standing endeavour on the part of some business interests and political circles to privatize Hydro.
OTTAWA – Si le gouvernement fédéral veut être pris au sérieux lorsqu’il parle de contrôler les dépenses, il doit examiner d’un œil critique l’explosion des coûts d’impartition, affirme-t-on dans une nouvelle étude dévoilée aujourd’hui par le Centre canadien de politiques alternatives.
If the federal government wants to get serious about spending controls, it needs to look critically at its ballooning outsourcing costs. This study finds that over the past five years, personnel outsourcing costs have risen 79%. While federal departments have had their budgets capped, expenditures on outside consultants have not been touched and remain above $1 billion a year.
OTTAWA—If the federal government wants to get serious about spending controls, it needs to look critically at its ballooning outsourcing costs, says a new study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).
According to the study, by CCPA Research Associate David Macdonald, the growing and concentrated nature of outsourcing has created a shadow public service that works alongside the real public service—but without the same hiring practices or transparency requirements.
In Canada, regulations adopted by every level of government have historically helped to make this one of the safest, most desirable places to raise a family. But a slow, steady, and quiet erosion of regulations by our governments put Canadians' health, safety and well-being increasingly at risk. This primer on regulation, by the CCPA's Trish Hennessy, tells the story of Canada's slippery slide into deregulation. It also provides resource information to learn more about regulation issues in Canada.
Ce que nous ne savons pas peut nous faire mal. Il y a eu, au cours de la dernière génération, une érosion lente, régulière et silencieuse de la réglementation causée par des gouvernements désireux de « réduire la paperasse », de rendre le Canada « plus concurrentiel » et les gouvernements, plus « rentables ».
Iglika Ivanova sets out a compelling argument for raising the minimum wage — in just four-pages of clear, accessible text. This is a great resource for anyone who wants to be able to explain why the minimum wage needs to increase immediately — and why this won't hurt businesses or taxpayers, despite claims to the contrary.