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A Not-So-Crazy Conspiracy Theory
If this crisis doesn’t discredit capitalism, what will? There’s this cartoon about two cows. The first cow has just figured out, to her horror and…
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2023 Gideon Rosenbluth Memorial Lecture with Economist Ha-Joon Chang
(video) Economist Ha-Joon Chan delivers the 2023 Gideon Rosenbluth Memorial Lecture, co-hosted by the CCPA-BC and the UBC Vancouver School of Economics.
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Canada is building fewer homes today than during pandemic economy shutdown
Interest rate hikes are behind the collapse of new housing
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BC Solutions Magazine
News and commentary from the CCPA’s BC Office (Oct 2023) Download 3.27 MB12 pages BC’s carbon crossroads: The Energy Action Framework takes the wrong path…
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Making a living in an age of inflation
The 2022 living wage for Regina and Saskatoon Download 3 MB 12 pages The Saskatchewan Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives calculates that…
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Unions are having a moment in Canada. Will they seize it?
With increased worker militancy, high cost of living, and majority public support, labour has a window of opportunity right now
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Canadian workers are realizing that strikes beat inflation
Prices are not going to go down to what they were before. If workers want to keep their purchasing power, we need to fight for it.
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That 70s show: The evolution of income inequality in Canada
This brief looks at the evolution of inequality going back to 1976. Drawing on Statistics Canada’s Canadian Income Survey, it reviews changes in the…
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The Monitor, July/August 2023
Neoliberalism is like a zombie that won’t die Download 5.58 MB Browse the latest edition of The Monitor online here Before it was an entrenched…
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Canada’s options for intervening in the Keystone XL CUSMA lawsuit
A briefing paper from the Trade and Investment Research Project Download 3.8 MB 19 pages Read the full report online here. TC Energy’s $15 billion…
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High cost of austerity
Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press June 23, 2023 After winning the 2016 provincial election, then-premier Brian Pallister moved Manitoba’s department of Indigenous and…
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Our recommendations for the 2024 BC budget
The BC government is holding its annual public consultation on Budget 2024 this June, inviting British Columbians to share their priorities for government investment next…
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