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Fast Facts: Thinking Alternatives
It is essential that we oppose the terribly destructive policies being imposed upon us by the federal Conservative government, but it is equally if not…
Connecting Aborignal people to ‘good’ jobs
Manitoba has among the highest Aboriginal populations in Canada and it is growing at a faster rate than the non-Aboriginal population. Fifteen percent of Manitoban’s…
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…
Consequences of outsourcing Toronto’s city cleaning jobs
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Canadians were justifiably outraged when Electro-Motive, owned by Caterpillar, threatened its London, Ont., workers with a 50 per cent pay…
Reform Capitalism or Scrap It?
It’s not just the climate that’s damaged by capitalism At the recent World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland, some among the world’s business and political…
The Weight of the One Percent
Environment hurt more by super-rich than population growth Last October, two things happened that captured media attention. One was the run-up to the birth of…
Undermining Canada’s Retirement Income System
It’s simply untrue Old Age Security is no longer sustainable Old Age Security is the basic building block of Canada’s retirement income system. It is…
Bill C-10: The truth about consequences
This report was produced with the collaboration of Ogijiita Pimachiowin Kinamatwin, The Community Education Development Association, The Canadian CED Network, Maintain the Momentum and Make…
CCPA Review: Reducing Poverty Among the Single Non-Elderly Population of Manitoba
Download 313.04 KB “This report shows that the single non-elderly poor in Manitoba experience the greatest depth of poverty yet receive the lowest per capita…
How to destroy a good poverty line
More than a decade ago, the federal and provincial governments started work on a new poverty line – the Market Basket Measure (MBM). After decades…
Do Canadians know how increasing numbers of temporary foreign workers is changing immigration?
During the fall of 2011 the Conservative government announced and implemented a number of dramatic changes to the Canadian immigration system, including attempts to speed-up…
Our Schools/Our Selves: Winter 2012
Every Tool Shapes the Task “In thinking about this issue of Our Schools/Our Selves, I took an inspiration from Battleground Schools. It is an encyclopaedia…
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