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OTTAWA—The share of unionized workers in Canada has dropped by only two percent over the past generation, but union representation dramatically affects workers’ ability to…
The link between unionization and the middle class Did you know that the loss of private sector union jobs in Canada is putting a squeeze…
Finance Minister Joe Oliver had a chance Tuesday to prove the Harper government’s economic prowess. The budget he delivered, however, failed miserably to do that.…
Winnipeg’s Rooming House Challenge On April 16th, 2014, a fire broke out in a rooming house on Enfield Crescent in Winnipeg’s St. Boniface neighbourhood. The…
BC is a prosperous province in a prosperous country, but we have done a poor job of sharing that prosperity. Inequality in BC has increased…
Same cost, real difference Families in Canada deserve affordable child care, but costs vary widely across Canada. Many Canadians don’t know that Quebec has the…
In The Case for Increasing the Minimum Wage Economist David A Green reviewed the academic research into minimum wage increases and debunked some of the…
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What does the academic literature tell us? Download 774.62 KB 12 pages Economist David A Green, a professor and former chair of the Vancouver School…
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Vancouver – In the wake of the B.C. government’s shockingly low 20-cent increase to the minimum wage, a new report…
There is a growing opportunity in Manitoba to bridge the economic and social divide between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people. First of all, Manitoba employers are…
The Experience of Build Download 1.17 MB 20 pages This report weaves together findings from data gathered through two other research reports published by the…
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