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Canada’s top billionaires are $37 billion richer since start of the pandemic, CCPA report finds
READ THE REPORT HERE. VANCOUVER–While millions of Canadians lost their jobs because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the country’s top 20 billionaires have amassed an average…
Long division: Inequity and Ontario’s back-to-school plan
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2.7 million Canadians will be worse off when CERB ends
OTTAWA — Three-quarters of Canadians—2.7 million people—who are receiving the Canadian Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) will be worse off when the benefit ends on September…
Decriminalizing Race
The case for investing in community and social support for imprisoned racialized women in Canada Download 610.82 KB30 pages The COVID-19 infection rate for prisoners…
Living Wages in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick 2020
Download 551.21 KB 28 pages The living wage was first calculated in Atlantic Canada in 2015 (Halifax). Antigonish was added in 2016 and Saint John,…
Everyone deserves decent wages—2020 living wage rates for Nova Scotia and New Brunswick
HALIFAX and SAINT JOHN—In order to earn a living wage, a person working a full-time, full-year job must earn $21.80 in Halifax, $19.55 in Antigonish,…
Where is the consent of the algorithmically policed?
In her 2012 book, Consent of the Networked, Rebecca MacKinnon noted that the companies and governments “that build, operate, and govern cyberspace are not being held…
The Monitor, Sept/Oct 2020
A Just Recovery Download 5.72 MB It has been six months since we shut down the economy to all but essential activities in an effort…
Surviving on Minimum Wage
Lived Experiences of Manitoba Workers & Policy Implications Download 1.01 MB 40 pages In 2001, CCPA-Manitoba published a report titled The Minimum Wage and a…
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