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Progress on Women’s Rights: Missing in Action
A Shadow Report on Canada’s Implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action Download 708.78 KB 88 pages This report reviews Canada’s implementation of…
Trouble Brewing
Why the Tim Hortons Takeover is a Bad Deal for Canadians Download 765.61 KB32 pages Burger King’s proposed takeover of Tim Hortons is likely to…
Narrowing the Gap
The Difference That Public Sector Wages Make Download 730.36 KB 30 pages This study compares the wages of full-time public and private sector workers and…
Refermer l’écart
La différence que font les salaires du secteur public Download 763.31 KB 32 pages Cette étude qui a comparé les salaires des employés à temps…
Climate Justice in BC
Lessons for Transformation Download 3.02 MB61 pages Are you looking for new ways to teach about climate change and social justice? Frustrated with models that…
Under Pressure
How Public Policy is Constraining Municipalities Download 703.34 KB31 pages This paper examines the full weight of neoliberal policies on Ontario municipalities and calls for…
CCPA Submission to BC Budget Consultations 2015
Download 1.23 MB 13 pages 2015 marks the sixth year of BC’s recovery from the recession. But it’s been a slow and largely jobless recovery.…
Dispelling Minimum Wage Mythology
The Minimum Wage and the Impact on Jobs in Canada, 1983–2012 Download 697.6 KB 26 pages This report conducts a wide empirical study of Canadian…
Calculating a Living Wage for the Waterloo Region
Download 566.15 KB 22 pages A Waterloo region family of four with two working parents needs to earn $16 an hour to make ends meet.…
Supporting Refugees with High Needs to Settle in Manitoba
Download 1.16 MB40 pages Family Dynamics approached the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives — Manitoba (CCPA-MB) to undertake a study of the Family Dynamics Family…
Payback Time?
What the Internationalization of Climate Litigation Could Mean for Canadian Oil and Gas Companies Download 2.91 MB64 pages This report explores scenarios in which the…
The First Rung on the Ladder: Community-based Literacy Programming in Public Housing Complexes
Download 859.53 KB18 pages A wealth of evidence—both global and local—confirms the value of literacy, and the importance of programs that promote literacy. This is…
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