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Why I can’t afford to buy a house
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Five things to know about pre-1964 Canadian housing policy
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The Young and the Leveraged
Assessing the Impact of a Housing Market Correction on Canada’s Homeowners Download 546.8 KB 22 pages This study finds that young homeowners would be hardest…
Fast Facts: What is Access to Information and does it Matter?
Under Canadian law, every citizen has the right to request information from federal, provincial/territorial, and municipal governments. Gaining access to tightly controlled government information is…
Fast Facts: Kathy Mallett – Inner City Builder
There are unsung heroes in Winnipeg’s inner city, especially in the Aboriginal community, and few of them have a list of accomplishments as long and…
Right-wing think tank IEDM on poverty: A few flaws
A few weeks ago, researchers Yanick Labrie, Youcef Msaid, and Alexandre Moreau from the right-wing think tank Institut économique de Montréal (IEDM) published an economic note on…
How Much Income Tax Could Canada’s Top 1% Pay?
Download 840.17 KB50 pages How much more could Canada’s richest 1% be paying in income tax? This study concludes that there is more than enough…
Fast Facts: New Federal government – opportunity to end crisis of poor housing
For Winnipeg residents with low incomes, the lack of affordable quality housing is a crisis. According to the 2011 National Housing Survey, 34,000 Winnipeg renters…
BC Commentary: A review of provincial social, economic and environmental trends
Fall 2015, Volume 18, Number 3 Download 1.89 MB8 pages Inside this issue: Moving Forward: Unheard Voices — The needs of seniors from smaller ethno-cultural…
Canada can’t let labour mobility create an underclass of TFWs
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Fast Facts: A Real Energy Strategy Can Create Jobs and Save Government Money
The energy strategy debate thus far in the federal election has focussed on the future of the oil sands and pipeline politics. The Federal Tories…
Fast Facts: Poverty – not present in this election campaign
First published by CBC online, October 8th, 2015 If you’re following the federal election campaign you would think that poverty in Canada has been eliminated.…
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