VANCOUVER - On the 28th anniversary of the deaths of four construction workers on the Bentall Tower IV, the BC Building Trades Council and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives released a new study calling on the province to significantly improve safety in the construction industry.
Employment and labour
Inside this issue:
Towards a BC Poverty Reduction Plan
Growing Call for the Living Wage: Making Paid Work Meet Basic Family Needs
Getting By is Getting Harder for Those in “Casual” Jobs
Reinvestment in Forest Sector Needed
Is BC’s Carbon Tax Fair?
GHG Emission Reductions in BC
OTTAWA—Le Centre canadien de politiques alternatives (CCPA) a publié aujourd’hui le Programme de stimulation fiscale de l’Alternative budgétaire pour le gouvernement fédéral, un programme d’un an qui doit permettre de créer 407 000 emplois, accroître l’économie de 3% et aider à protéger les canadiens contre les pires effets de la récession.
OTTAWA—Today the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) released the Alternative Federal Budget (AFB) fiscal stimulus plan, a one-year package that would create 407,000 jobs, boost the economy by 3%, and help protect Canadians from the worst of a recession.
Hugh Mackenzie, researcher at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, gives you the dirt on the growing income gap between Canada's very rich and the rest of us.
http://www.youtube.com/v/WjRUwkt2vqs&hl=en_US&fs=1
TORONTO – Canada may be in for a rocky economic ride, but the nation’s best paid 100 CEOs are still basking in the glow of the banner year of 2007: they got a record 22% average pay hike in 2007.
Canada’s best paid 100 CEOs tallied one billion in average total earnings – a historical first, according to a report on CEO pay by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).