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Missed Opportunities
This report provides an assessment of Canada’s progress in meeting the goals for gender equality set out in the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.…
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Canada Disability Benefit
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is a charitable research institute and Canada’s leading source of progressive policy ideas, whose work is rooted in the…
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2023 Living Wage for Regina and Saskatoon
The Saskatchewan Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ living wage calculation for Regina and Saskatoon is a little different from past years. That’s…
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Impact of the National Housing Strategy for Low-income Renters in Winnipeg and Manitoba
There is broad consensus among housing policy experts that the NHS has failed to live up to the commitment to create affordable housing for the…
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Not just a train, and certainly not Mayan
Among the many Indigenous struggles taking place throughout North America, the high-profile resistance to a flagship project of the Mexican government shows how transnational alliances…
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If Canada wanted reconciliation, it would stand with Palestine
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Out-of-control rents
CMHC, “Rental Market Survey Data Tables,” 2023. For a notable exception, see John Rapley, “Canada’s approach to housing is bad for the economy,” The Globe…
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Minimum wage workers across Canada face out-of-control rents that far exceed their income
Province Minimum wage (Oct. 2023) Rental wage for 1 bedroom Rental wage for 2 bedroom B.C. $16.75 $29.96 $35.90 Ontario $16.55 $28.50 $32.63 Alberta $15.00…
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A Decade of Migrant Care Worker Programs
For more than a century, Canada has seen thousands of migrant care workers enter the country to provide much needed care work.
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Canada’s Broken Promises to Migrant Care Workers—More Pilot Programs Not a Solution—
VANCOUVER — The federal government must ensure that just-announced pilot programs for migrant care workers are not the latest in a series of failed such programs,…
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What is the “rental wage” in my neighborhood?
Across Canada, rents are out of control. In 2019, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives introduced the concept of the “rental wage” to Canada. The rental…
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Gazan’s basic income bill could be a game-changer in fight against poverty in Canada
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