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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…
Canada is building fewer homes today than during pandemic economy shutdown
Interest rate hikes are behind the collapse of new housing
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…
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…
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
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.
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…
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…
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…
The Chasm Widens:
Inequality in Manitoba Update Download 636.51 KB20 pages Income inequality is getting worse in Manitoba: the market income of the bottom 20 percent of Manitoba…
Corporate profits are driving food price inflation
Remarks to the Agriculture and Agri-Food Committee of the House of Commons
Opposition Parties Need to Stand Firm Against Tax Cuts for the Rich
The 2023 Manitoba budget proposes over half a billion dollars in tax cuts, but many Manitobans won’t see a dime, while the richest Manitobans will…
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