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Canada must be tough on new U.S. aluminum tariffs
Photo by ccbarr, Flickr Creative Commons On August 6, a mere five weeks after the Canada–U.S.–Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) entered into force, the Trump administration announced…
Fast Facts: Manitoba Minimum Wage workers in poverty, face precarious work – new report
A new report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Manitoba office finds Manitoba’s $11.65 hourly minimum wage is insufficient to bring…
Surviving on Minimum Wage
Lived Experiences of Manitoba Workers & Policy Implications Download 1.01 MB 40 pages In 2001, CCPA-Manitoba published a report titled The Minimum Wage and a…
A litany of reports, but little accountability for police violence against Black Canadians
When it comes to anti-Black racism in Canadian policing, we don’t have an information gap, we have a police accountability gap. I’m reminded of this…
Chrystia Freeland’s golden opportunity
There’s a global pandemic. A deep recession. And a federal budget deficit the size of last year’s revenues. Chrystia Freeland is becoming finance minister in…
Prorogation’s silver lining: More time to press for a just recovery
I don’t know who first used “build back better” as a slogan for the post-COVID recovery. Today the rather awful catchphrase is unavoidable wherever you…
Queen’s Park makes plans for a decade of pain
Last week’s Ontario fiscal update gave us our first real glimpse of how Premier Doug Ford sees the post-pandemic world. Here’s his plan in a…
More on who will be worse off in the switch from CERB-to-EI
This analysis has been updated following federal legislative changes. Read the update here. Please note we are unable to assist individual CERB/EI recipients with their claims.…
Thousands of earthquakes near Site C dam and mounting “geotechnical problems” at project warrant public inquiry, CCPA says
(VANCOUVER) The BC government should immediately appoint an independent panel of geologists and engineers to assess the ongoing geotechnical problems at Site C and whether the…
What’s at stake in the move from CERB to EI?
Count Count Eligible for EI 1,528,037 Get EI worth <$500/week 940,651 Get EI worth >=$500/week 587,386 Not eligible for EI 2,390,475 No EI:…
Terminating the Hamilton Police Liaison Program in the HWDSB: Four Years in Review
Photo courtesy of HWDSB Kids Need Help On Monday June 22nd, after hosting a sit-in on the street for almost seven hours, we celebrated and…
Would pharmacare spell trouble for drug companies?
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has brought the issue of prescription drug access back to the fore as questions of affordable access became international news in…
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