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Expensive housing eroding BC’s economy — new report offers solutions agenda
VANCOUVER – Scarce and expensive housing is eroding the province’s liveability and economy and the skyrocketing price of homes has become a source of enormous wealth…
2025 Alternative Federal Budget offers election platform ideas for political parties
OTTAWA—As parliament resumes this week and sparks pre-election positioning for Canada’s political parties, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) has released its annual Alternative…
2024 Rosenbluth lecture | Dr. Katharina Pistor
Dr. Pistor will discuss themes from her latest book,The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality, which explores how the public institutions…
PEI Media: New Report – 2024 Living Wages for Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island
HALIFAX/K’jipuktuk – For the first time since 2020, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia has released the living wage for Prince Edward Island. The report—which, for…
NL Media: New Report – 2024 Living Wages for Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island
HALIFAX/K’jipuktuk – The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia has released its annual living wage update for Newfoundland and Labrador, in a report that also includes living…
NS Media: New Report – 2024 Living Wages for Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island
Halifax/Kjipuktuk—The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia has released its annual living wage update for Nova Scotia—which, for the first time, provides a broad regional…
Trinational civil society calls for urgent clarity in CUSMA investor-state dispute process
Unions, environmental, consumer and community organizations from the U.S., Canada, and Mexico wrote to the North American Free Trade Commission this week ahead of a…
Many women workers in Canada still feel economic upheavals of pandemic
OTTAWA— The COVID-19 pandemic wiped out 35 years of women’s economic gains in two short months, and a significant number of women in the workforce…
Progressive Labour Agenda for Manitoba:
For Immediate Release (Winnipeg, Treaty One): A new survey released today finds that most Manitobans support extending employment rights held by employees to gig workers who work…
Tax deadline today: In spite of income taxes, Canada’s tax system has remained mostly flat
OTTAWA—While most Canadians think the country has a progressive tax system due to income tax brackets, when all taxes are considered, the tax system is…
Press Release: Nova Scotia saw alarming increase in poverty and food insecurity—some of the highest in the country
Halifax/Kjipuktuk – Statistics Canada just released the most recent poverty and food insecurity data for 2022 and Nova Scotia’s rates are alarming. Some of the highlights…
Expanding democratic employee ownership in Canada
VANCOUVER — The federal government is considering ways for employees to have more ownership and control in their workplace by tabling legislation to create a new…
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