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What CERB recipients can expect at tax time
The CERB was a critical support for many workers impacted by pandemic closures. For low-wage workers, the benefit funds were likely used to cover critical expenses. As such, it’s unlikely that Canadians living below the poverty line will have money set aside for their pending CERB tax bill.
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Will the green economy of the future work for everyone?
Ensuring a just transition towards a green recovery and a net-zero economy will require more ambitious federal action than is currently on the table.
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Saskatchewan budget: Could be worse, but is it enough?
The Saskatchewan government appears to have no appetite to enact and defend the types of cuts it made in 2017. Maybe those tropes are dead? Or maybe the pandemic is making the obvious impossible to completely ignore.
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The Cost of Poverty in the Atlantic Provinces
Download 459.08 KB23 pages The purpose of this report is to underline the cost to the provincial governments of not addressing the needs of the…
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Le coût de la pauvreté dans les provinces de l’Atlantique
Download 450.68 KB24 pages Le but de ce rapport est de souligner le coût pour les gouvernements provinciaux qui ne répondent pas aux besoins de…
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“Too high” or “too low”? Assessing Nova Scotia’s modest minimum wage hike
On April 1st, Nova Scotia’s minimum hourly wage increased from $12.55 to $12.95. Is it now “too high” or “too low”?
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The Repeal of the Literacy Act
CCPA-MB presents on Bill 55 Download 403.59 KB8 pages Bill 55, The Reducing Red Tape and Improving Services Act, includes a commitment to eliminating the…
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Bill 64: The Public Education Modernization Act is Racist
Download 3.6 MB7 pages One of the books I ordered after George Floyd was killed is called ‘Anti-Racist Baby’, by Ibram X. Kendi. It is a list…
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Fighting on all fronts
The pandemic has exacerbated the existing crisis that migrants live in as a result of being denied basic rights and protections.
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Where the Creator Sits
The Quest to Protect the East Side of Lake Winnipeg Download 1.14 MB12 pages “I felt the need to write my story when Manitoba Premier…
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With more than 250,000 households in arrears, it’s time for rent forgiveness
In the bigger COVID picture, rent arrears of $350 million is a small sum that could easily be cancelled with the will of governments and…
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