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Struggling To Get Ahead
New analysis finds that 171,072 workers earn less than the living wage in Manitoba ($19.21 per hour), which is approximately 25% of all workers in…
Time to reinstate the Manitoba gas tax
Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press August 28, 2024
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Fact-Checking Manitoba Budget Claims
1. Claim: “Budget 2023 removes 47,400 low-income Manitobans from the tax rolls and saves the average family $1,000” Impact: More of the Basic Personal Amount…
Fast Facts: Whose Freedom?
The Convoy that took over Ottawa for a month last year just met outside Winnipeg this past weekend. While the right to protest is an…
Your inflation dollars may not be going where you think: report
Most price increases are going to corporate profits in mining, oil and gas extraction CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—Of every dollar spent…
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