Updates from the CCPA
For more thoughts on the right to strike, see this posting by Charles Smith which originally appeared in The Bullet. Smith analysis the Supreme Court of Canada's recent decision in the Alberta v....
November 28, 2013 |
Jim Stanford debated Tom Flanigan at the Macdonald Laurier Institute in Ottawa on whether or not the public service should have the right to strike. Here is an excerpt of Jim's argument that was...
November 28, 2013 |
The roles and responsibilities of unions have come under renewed scrutiny. Provincial and federal government hostility towards organized resistance to current policies is intensifying through heated...
November 27, 2013 |
National Office Statistics Canada just released a new report on long-term trends in unionization in Canada. It includes information on Canada in general and for each of the provinces. This is not an extensive...
November 26, 2013 |
CCPA-MB's new film, Right of Passage by Carole O'Brien, is about the experiences of at-risk students attending Gorden Bell High School's alternative education program in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Learn...
November 26, 2013 |
Manitoba Office This booklet, launched at the recent NUPGE convention, provides a valuable analysis on the pensions debate in Canada.
November 21, 2013 |
Making the case for progressive tax reform in BC: Do you have a sense that our tax system could be fairer, but you're looking for concrete evidence to back up that intuition? Do you find yourself...
November 20, 2013 |
Two candidates in an upcoming federal by-election have made income inequality the main topic in Toronto-Centre. The CCPA's Growing Gap team created a short primer on income inequality that includes...
November 18, 2013 |
National Office, Ontario Office Ontario's minimum wage has been frozen for three years. Currently, the income of minimum wage workers sits a shocking 25% below the poverty line.
The longer the minimum wage remains frozen the more...
November 14, 2013 |
Ontario Office New today from our BC office: a policy brief that analyzes how the government has responded to recommendations on seniors care from the Ombudsperson. Of the 140 recommendations directed at the...
November 14, 2013 |
BC Office On November 1st, Scott Sinclair, director of CCPA's Trade and Investment Research Project, did an interview with CBC Radio's The Fisheries Broadcast. Earlier this year, Sinclair authored the report, ...
November 12, 2013 |
National Office On Tuesday, November 5th, CCPA Senior Economist David Macdonald was asked to present to the federal Finance Committee as part of the committee’s pre-budget consultations. Read the full transcript of...
November 8, 2013 |
National Office In response to all the criticism it received over the obvious biases found in its 2011 survey, Labour Watch has released a new 2013 State of the Unions survey which, it claims, has clearer questions...
November 4, 2013 |
This past summer, Erika Shaker, Director of CCPA's Education Project, was invited to deliver a lecture at the McMaster Centre for Scholarship in the Public Interest's 2013 Summer Institute. The...
November 1, 2013 |
National Office Whether you shop there or not, the November edition of Hennessy’s Index looks at some fundamental differences between how Wal-Mart and Costco treat their workers.
Hennessy’s Index is a monthly...
November 1, 2013 |
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