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Consequences of outsourcing Toronto’s city cleaning jobs
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Canadians were justifiably outraged when Electro-Motive, owned by Caterpillar, threatened its London, Ont., workers with a 50 per cent pay…
The Unintended Consequences of Outsourcing Cleaning Work
Download 1.04 MB42 pages The City of Toronto is currently debating whether or not to privatize as many as 1000 municipal cleaning staff. This paper…
Ten Points on Recession, Deficits, and Austerity in Ontario
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Canada’s Incomplete, Mediocre Recovery
This study finds that, despite claims to the contrary, the damage of the recession is still very much with Canadians and that the labour market…
Why should banks be free to create credit out of thin air?
Ever since the Occupy movement came to Canada – even before that, actually – there’s been an enormous myth propagated that Canadian banks did nothing…
Occupy Protests … It’s About Time!
Here is my commentary published in the Globe and Mail (web edition) on Sunday, regarding the wonderful Occupy Together events held in Toronto and almost 1000 other…
Graphs for Dummies
The Troubled Geometry of Tim Hudak’s “changebook” Download 431.22 KB15 pages This detailed statistical review of the 13 statistical graphs contained in the Conservative changebook…
News Flash: Corporate Tax Cuts Don’t Stimulate Investment
A new CCPA study examines historical data on business investment and cash flow from 1961 through 2010, and, using econometric techniques, finds no evidence that lower taxes…
Having Their Cake and Eating It Too
Business Profits, Taxes, and Investment in Canada: 1961 Through 2010 Download 955.26 KB38 pages This study examines historical data on business investment and cash flow…
Labour market exodus and other unhappy math
Friday’s labour force survey numbers from Statistics Canada were another nail in the coffin of Canada’s fleeting, fragile economic “recovery.” On first glance, the data…
Out of Equilibrium
The Impact of EU-Canada Free Trade on the Real Economy Canada already has a large bilateral trade deficit with the EU—$15 billion in goods and…
A Terrible Trade Deal
Harper’s Buy American “cure” worse than the disease It’s a clear case of déja vu, all over again. Back in the 1980s, Brian Mulroney raised the…
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