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Gender equality: We’re going to need more than a week to make it real
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Alternative Federal Budget 2019
No Time to Lose Download 1.26 MB84 pages With the country facing significant and unpredictable headwinds going into another federal election year, the 2019 Alternative Federal Budget (AFB) shows that…
The Monitor, September/October 2018
Fragile Recovery Download 9.57 MB A decade after the worst financial crash since the Great Depression, a fragile recovery is obscuring threats—some new, some as old as capitalism—to Canadian workers…
Disability and the job churn
For disabled workers, it’s not enough to do more with less. In the new economy, you’ve got to do it with a 24/7 smile. In 2016, Finance Minister Bill Morneau…
Getting to $15 and Fairness
How large numbers of society’s most vulnerable organized and won a historic victory March for a $15/hr minimum wage at the University of Minnesota, April 2015 (Photo by Fibonacci Blue…
Moving to the right
Extremist groups are larger, bolder in their online and offline activism, and there are more of them. The white nationalist rallies that have peppered the country, beginning in the early…
What does progressive trade policy look like?
A 10-point plan for building a better global order The Progressive Economics Forum awards a biennial prize named after John Kenneth Galbraith to recognize lasting contributions to progressive economic theory…
776,000 children live in child care deserts in Canada: Report
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA—An estimated 776,000 of non-school-aged children (44%) live in child care deserts in Canada, according to a new study released today by the Canadian Centre…
Real income security in Ontario
A new roadmap calls for transformational change to social assistance and other income supports. Whoever forms the next government has to take it seriously. Is your income secure? Do you…
The Monitor, May/June 2018
Two Worlds Collide Download 11.22 MB Ontarians heading to the polls on June 7 face a stark choice between two visions of government and two styles of governing. The choice…
BC government decision to continue excluding farm workers from minimum wage protection very disappointing
Vancouver — Although there are positive elements to today’s BC government announcement in response to the second report of the Fair Wages Commission, the government’s rejection of the recommendation to…
The best candidate for the job? Some real talk about the meritocracy
Ottawa City Councillor Diane Deans recently proposed the creation of a women’s bureau to support greater engagement of women in city politics. When questioned about the initiative Ottawa Mayor Jim…
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