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Women’s earnings lag behind high rates of inflation
Bumpy Ride Fall 2022 Update #5: Women’s salaries are failing to keep up with inflation—a look at the latest numbers
Low-wage workers are most exposed to spiralling costs
Bumpy Ride Fall 2022 Update #3: Fall 2022 labour force data shows that pandemic-vulnerable sectors still have not recovered from COVID-19.
Ottawa is flush with cash but signals caution as recession looms
The federal government just released its latest fiscal update. CCPA senior economist David Macdonald has the details.
Pressure’s on Canada’s grocery giants
They’ve been enjoying excess profits throughout the pandemic.
Nova Scotia’s minimum wage workers deserve a real raise
The cost of living has gone up but the minimum wage hasn’t kept pace.
Dangerous liaisons: Canada’s toxic mix of interest rate hikes and private debt
The combination of rising interest rates and high private debt catapults Canada into the top third most dangerous economic periods since the Second World War. If the Bank of Canada hikes interest rates by 0.5% or more in September, we’d move into second place.
The devil’s crowbar: how the right weaponizes inflation
The brand of turbo-charged capitalism that we call “neoliberalism” arrived in North America on a rising tide of inflation.
The politics of inflation: The good, bad and the ugly
It has been a long, long time since Canadians had to worry about high inflation
Power, profit, and the politics of inflation
The Consumer Price Index (the major measure of inflation) rose 8.1 per cent in June compared to last year—the biggest jump in almost 40 years.
The great unaffordable North
Inflation is coupled with wildfires and loss of infrastructure to create an affordability problem unlike anywhere else in Canada
Inflation and the general ineffectiveness of monetary policy
There is no denying that inflation has become a major economic and political problem, reaching almost double digits in many industrialized countries. Canadians hear about it, and we certainly see it at the pumps and in the grocery stores, with many increasingly struggling to meet their weekly and monthly expenses. The fundamental question that we must ask now is what can our institutions do to bring inflation back down?
The financialization of rental housing in Canada
Canada is experiencing a permanent rental housing affordability crisis, which has only intensified since the COVID-19 pandemic began. At the same time, we’re seeing a greater consolidation of rental housing apartments by financial firms, accelerating the “financialization of rental housing,” a trend underway in Canada since the 1990s.
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