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Working for a Living Wage 2012
Making Paid Work Meet Basic Family Needs in Metro Vancouver Download 1.33 MB8 pages Please note: The updated 2019 Living Wage report is now available. Attachments Living Wage…
Working After Age 65
What is at Stake? Download 512 KB12 pages It is argued by some that eligibility for Old Age Security (OAS) and the Guaranteed Income Supplement…
A Cure for Dutch Disease
Active Sector Strategies for Canada’s Economy Download 424.48 KB11 pages This Technical Paper reports on the negative structural consequences of the mostly unregulated resource boom…
Nova Scotia Alternative Budget 2012
Forward to Fairness Download 2.28 MB85 pages This document shows Nova Scotians that minor changes in government spending could have a major impact on the…
2012 Preliminary Operating Budget
Madly Off in All Directions Download 605.28 KB16 pages Winnipeg’s 2012 Preliminary Operational Budget lacks a central policy goal or cohesive vision for the future…
Ontario’s Fiscal Reality
Cup Half Empty or Half Full? Download 777.18 KB24 pages The McGuinty government has been using the report of the Commission on the Reform of…
Alternative Federal Budget 2012: A budget for the rest of us
Canada’s job market remains stalled and Canadians are understandably anxious about their future, and increasingly question whether their children and grandchildren will do better than…
Shared Futures
Big Institutions and their Inner-City Neighbours Download 676.93 KB38 pages “This paper examines cases of institutional expansion in three neighbourhoods within Winnipeg’s inner city. In…
Making employment work
Connecting multi-barriered Manitobans to good jobs Download 891.25 KB 52 pages
The Unintended Consequences of Outsourcing Cleaning Work
Download 1.04 MB42 pages The City of Toronto is currently debating whether or not to privatize as many as 1000 municipal cleaning staff. This paper…
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