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Fast Facts: The case for a national strategy on low income energy and water efficiency
The vast majority of Canada’s low-income families live in older houses, with inadequate insulation in attics, walls and basements. While these houses may offer cheaper-than-average…
Canada’s growing gap explained
The income gap between the rich and the rest keeps growing, in good times and in bad. Learn more about it in this video. Canada’s…
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The View From Here: How a Living Wage Can Reduce Poverty in Manitoba
Download 1.84 MB 38 pages Attachments The View From Here Appendix – Calculation Guide
Fast Facts: How a Living Wage can reduce poverty in Manitoba
In this time of economic turmoil, living-wage policies are one way to stimulate our local economy. A living-wage policy is employed by at least 122…
Access to Knowledge Restricted
Intellectual property protection primarily protects profits Affordable access to food, pharmaceuticals, and scientific advancement is essential for the well-being of Canadians and society in general.…
Does Your Pay-Cheque Make You Happy?
Our economic system has been badly skewed against workers Don’t worry, be happy. As of this writing, media coverage of the recession has been littered…
No End To Unemployment Crisis
The recession won’t be over till people get back to work The next time someone says the “recession is over,” ask them exactly what they…
Possibilities and Prospects: The Debate Over a Guaranteed Income
Download 360.96 KB 38 pages The idea of a guaranteed income (sometimes referred to as guaranteed annual income or GAI) has a long and respectable…
Déjà vu: Ontario’s recession and the 1930s
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT TORONTO – One year after the Crash of October 2008, Ontario’s recession is looking eerily like the Great…
At the Mercy of Their Bosses
Seasonal farm workers exploited, denied rights and benefits Imagine having to leave your family for up to eight months at a time to work in…
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