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The Clash for the Cash: CEO vs. the Average Joe
Today the CCPA released its annual look at CEO compensation and found that by 12:00 noon on January 3rd, the first official working day of the year,…
CEOs vs the 99%: No contest when it comes to pay
TORONTO—The highest paid 100 CEOs on Canada’s TSX Index had reason to cheer the New Year: By noon January 3, they had already pocketed $44,366…
Canada’s CEO Elite 100
The 0.01% Download 693.88 KB 21 pages The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ annual look at CEO compensation reveals that by 12:00 noon on January…
CCPA-NS Submission to Law Amendments Committee on Bill 102
Download 184.67 KB 5 pages In this submission, CCPA’s Nova Scotia Office responds to the Law Amendments Committee on Bill 102: An Act to Prevent…
Fast Facts: What you need to know about the Brandon University strike
Professors, instructors, librarians and administrative staff on strike at Brandon University have been accused in the press of being selfish and irresponsible. Although it’s not…
A Living Wage for Kingston
Download 598.24 KB22 pages This report builds on previous work published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, which aimed to define and operationalize the…
Climate Change and the Canadian Energy Sector
Implications for Labour and Trade Unions Download 2.03 MB80 pages This study argues that we need a fundamental rethinking of where Canada is going in…
Living wage policy —why municipal governments should lead the way
The Living Wage for Families Campaign, along with 54 organizations representing over 300,000 British Columbians, recently issued an Open Letter calling on all municipal election…
Why Unions Matter
Are unions more of a problem than a solution today? Anti-union sentiment has accelerated since the global crisis of 2008 brought economies to their knees…
A clever new slogan, but where are the jobs?
Premier Clark’s much anticipated BC Jobs Plan comes up short where it matters most: the jobs. For all the fuss of a four-day media launch,…
It’s a Living
Hennessy’s Index: A number is never just a number Hennessy’s Indexis a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy, about Canada and…
BC forestry missing out on great green job potential
Ever since US house prices peaked in mid 2006 and the great economic slump began south of the border, BC’s government and forest industry alike…
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