Updates from the CCPA
In the debate over sustainable energy options for the future, wind and solar power usually receive the bulk of attention. However, recent technological developments are creating a new assortment of...
June 29, 2011 |
Saskatchewan Office Today the CCPA-BC released a new report that reveals how ten years of tax cuts and changes have created an unfair system in which the wealthy pay lower taxes and the public treasury is starved for...
June 27, 2011 |
BC Office Maclean's magazine focuses on Canada's highest paid 50 CEOs and finds their take-home pay increases to be "astronomical". Macleans writes: "In the past 12 years, there’s been a 444 per cent salary...
June 27, 2011 |
National Office The Globe and Mail created an interesting infographic that breaks down millionaires by where they live in the world. It shows Canada as home to 282,000 millionaires.See it here.
June 27, 2011 |
National Office As Canada continues on the path of economic recovery following the worldwide recession of 2008, workers find themselves under attack -- and the attack is coming from many directions. We've put...
June 24, 2011 |
National Office In ongoing Canada-EU trade negotiations, the European Commission is seeking full coverage of sub-national (provincial and municipal) procurement. In Canada, as in Europe, many important public...
June 16, 2011 |
National Office Statistics Canada released a report today on incomes across Canada in 2009. As First Call BC points out in their news release, key points for BC include:
BC's child poverty rate rose to 12...
June 15, 2011 |
BC Office In the lead up to the provincial referendum, our Spring/Summer issue of BC Commentary takes a closer look at the HST. Check it out here.
And for commentary after Christy Clark's May 25 HST...
June 8, 2011 |
BC Office Yesterday on our blog, Behind the Numbers, Alternative Federal Budget Coordinator David Macdonald drew back the curtain on Federal Budget 2011, exposing the plan to cut the deficit through an...
June 6, 2011 |
National Office Great news! Vancity Credit Union has announced that it is now officially a living wage employer, committed to paying its employees a living wage, as calculated by the CCPA. In Vancouver in 2011,...
June 1, 2011 |
BC Office BNN (Business News Network) has taken on the thorny topic of soaring CEO pay in Canada.
Two former CEOs joined CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan for a discussion about CEO pay and came to...
June 1, 2011 |
National Office Despite the government’s stay-the-course rhetoric, the upcoming federal budget will lay the foundation for one of the most aggressive assaults on public service delivery in Canadian history. David...
June 1, 2011 |
National Office Did your pay go up by 13% last year? If you were a CEO at one of Canada's 100 biggest companies, it did.
The Globe and Mail review of executive pay in 2010 reveals CEOs at Canada’s 100 largest...
May 30, 2011 |
National Office "The Conservatives, who will soon deliver their post-election budget, are championing a set of plans that may accelerate Canada’s growing gap between rich and poor, a sign of inequality that has...
May 30, 2011 |
We had such a positive response to our federal election blog, we've decided to continue blogging. We've just launched Behind the Numbers, which will deliver timely, progressive commentary and...
May 25, 2011 |
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