Our experts at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives have long analyzed entrenched income inequality in Canada. We make a special focus of it in this issue of the Monitor.
As Bruce Campbell, the CCPA’s former executive director, lays out in his comprehensive essay, How the CCPA sparked a national conversation about income inequality,”the CCPA grew out of a fight for greater equality and protection of Canada’s democracy.
Inequality and poverty
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Previously pubished in the Winnipeg Free Press June 25, 2024
Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press April 22, 2024
In its first budget, the NDP has adhered closely to the pragmatic instincts that won them last fall’s election. The budget includes investments in health care, cuts taxes for middle income Manitobans and sets out a plan for eventually reducing the deficit.
Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press April 29, 2024
This report documenting the cost of poverty in Mani
Halifax/Kjipuktuk - Statistics Canada just released the most recent poverty and food insecurity data for 2022 and Nova Scotia’s rates are alarming. Some of the highlights from the data (using the Market Basket Measure and the Canadian Income Survey) include:
Poverty:
We generally take for granted that everyone has the right to a say—and certainly a vote—in what our governments do. But in the workplaces that rule many of our waking hours, these democratic rights are largely absent.
In a time of extreme inequality, deteriorating social cohesion and reduced trust in our institutions, why shouldn’t workers have more control over the firms they work in? Enabling employees to take more ownership and control in their working lives is a promising antidote.