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Work Life: Gabriel Bako reviews Loreto’s latest book
A review of From Demonized to Organized: Building the new Union Movement by Nora Loreto This new book published by CCPA National provides a timely…
Work Life: The Living Wage
An idea whose time has come Minimum-wage workers are not just teenagers working at fast-food restaurants after school. According to the Manitoba Federation of Labour,…
A Family Living Wage for Manitoba
2013 Update Download 682.63 KB 12 pages With approximately 38,600 Manitobans earning minimum wage ($10.45/hour) and fully 73,700 Manitobans making only 10% more, we need…
A living wage for Manitoba families
WINNIPEG—Low-income families face difficult choices: pay the rent or buy food; forego dental care to buy school supplies. Parents faced with these dilemmas are stressed…
Our Schools/Our Selves: Fall 2013
On the Front Lines: Teachers, Unions, and Social Progress Because unions have always been on the front lines fighting for progressive social change they have…
What Difference Would $14/hr Make?
Ontario’s minimum wage has been frozen for three years. Currently the Ontario government is reviewing how to set and regularly increase the minimum wage. This…
Making Every Job a Good Job
A Benchmark for Setting Ontario’s Minimum Wage Download 390.72 KB 36 pages In the summer of 2013 — three years after the provincial government froze…
Work Life: The Canada Jobs Grant
Perpetuating Aboriginal Exclusion There are now many examples of policies introduced by the federal government that will have significant implications for Indigenous sovereignty, preservation of…
Hennessy’s Index: November 2013
Wal-Mart or Costco? Hennessy’s Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy, about Canada and its place in the world.…
Work Life: Academic Freedom
Ivory tower privilege or public interest? The University of Manitoba narrowly averted its third faculty strike in eighteen years in late October, a strike that…
Why Canada Needs Postal Banking
Download 2.92 MB82 pages This report finds that the traditional financial banking sector is not meeting the needs of all Canadians, and that the reintroduction of…
Toronto is Canada’s hottest job market – for better or worse
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