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New BC government should promote a living wage
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. VANCOUVER – One of the main issues of the BC election campaign is how to deal with…
2013 living wage calculation: costs of raising a family in Metro Vancouver rising faster than inflation
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. VANCOUVER – $19.62 is the 2013 Vancouver living wage, according to a report released today that calculates…
It Pays To Pay A Living Wage
Canadian communities are embracing “living wage” campaigns Work should lift us out of poverty. It’s a simple aspiration, an equation many of…
Fast Facts: Moving Forward, Giving Back
Transformative Aboriginal Adult Education When she was 12 years old and still in grade 7, Claudette Michell left home in The Pas,…
BC’s publicly funded legal aid is in crisis
Imagine you are a woman who recently left your husband because he was assaulting you. Without a lawyer, fighting for the custody…
NS Alternative Provincial Budget says we need a jobs and growth budget
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT Halifax—The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia releases its 12th annual Alternative Provincial Budget today. Strengthening…
The “Big Business Bang” Theory
Social, economic, environmental ills all have the same cause [An earlier version of the following essay was written seven years ago, but…
Report: Does the Saskatchewan Government’s Anti-Poverty Strategy Measure Up?
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT Regina – In the summer of 2012, the Saskatchewan government published its anti-poverty strategy “From Dependence…
Saskatchewan’s Anti-Poverty Plan, From Dependence to Independence: Does It Measure Up?
Download 376.09 KB14 pages In the summer of 2012, the Saskatchewan government published its anti-poverty strategy, From Dependence to Independence, claiming that no previous…
Thinking the Apocalyptic Unthinkable
Oil-dependent “civilization” faces collapse before mid-century Whether our “civilization” will survive this century is now — or should be — the main…
Fast Facts: City no longer a player in poverty reduction
Winnipeg falls further behind other cities with proposed budget cuts The City of Winnipeg’s preliminary operating budget for 2013 cuts spending on…
Fast Facts: Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges
The 2012 State of the Inner City Report is titled Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges. We called it this because we believe it…