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What's Driving Vancouver's Living Wage So High?

The Huffington Post B.C. | Posted 05.03.2013 | Canada British Columbia

Metro Vancouver's living wage keeps on climbing as the cost of living becomes more and more unaffordable every year. The city's 2013 living wage ha...

Feds Chopping Way More Jobs Than Advertised: Think Tank

CP | Julian Beltrame, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.13.2013 | Canada Business

OTTAWA - A new analysis from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says the federal government has misrepresented cuts to the public service, an...

You've Got It All Wrong, Flaherty: CCPA

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 05.11.2013 | Canada Politics

OTTAWA - Canada's leading left-wing think-tank believes Canadians can have their cake and eat it too in the next federal budget — more spending to c...

Why Canada's Definition of Austerity Is All Wrong

David Gratzer | Posted 04.29.2013 | Canada Business
David Gratzer

Government program spending is still growing from sea to sea. Virtually every government in Canada is spending more in current dollars from one year to the next. Many are spending more in inflation-adjusted dollars, too. If they aren't, they're generally coming pretty close.

Oilsands Dependence Could Hurt Canada's Economy: Report

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 04.22.2013 | Canada Alberta

OTTAWA - A new report warns of the perils to the Canadian economy of relying too much on the oilsands.The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives stud...

Raise B.C. Taxes To Reduce Deficit: Think Tank

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 03.31.2013 | Canada British Columbia

VANCOUVER - A left-leaning think tank says if the B.C. government raised taxes to the levels collected in 2000, it would wipe out the deficit and have...

Ontario To Lose Tons Of Jobs Under EU Free Trade: Think Tank

The Huffington Post Canada | Daniel Tencer | Posted 09.20.2012 | Canada Business

Ontario would lose tens of thousands of jobs, see the decline of its manufacturing sector accelerate, and would need to be more dependent on natural r...

Canada Missing Out On Tens Of Thousands Of Green Jobs: Report

The Huffington Post Canada | Daniel Tencer | Posted 06.12.2012 | Canada Business

Canada will not see significant employment gains from the oil boom in the western part of the country, and should turn to development of green energy ...

Rachel Mendleson

Canada Faces Crises As Wage Gap Grows: Study

HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Mendleson | Posted 05.22.2012 | Canada Business

Income inequality is set to widen in Canada in the coming years, a trend that will lead to greater instability and could trigger future financial cris...

Think There Was No Canadian Bank Bailout? Think Again

The Huffington Post Canada | Daniel Tencer | Posted 04.30.2012 | Canada Business

UPDATE: The Canadian Bankers' Association has responded to the CCPA's report, telling The Huffington Post that no Canadian banks were in danger of fai...

Daniel Tencer

‘Alternative Budget’ Proposes New Top Tax Bracket For Canada’s Wealthiest

HuffingtonPost.com | Daniel Tencer | Posted 03.15.2012 | Canada Business

The federal government should create a new tax bracket for Canada’s biggest earners as a way to avoid cuts to social spending and "restore fairness ...

More Spending To Balance Budget: Does This Add Up?

CP | Julian Beltrame, The Canadian Press | Posted 05.14.2012 | Canada Politics

OTTAWA - Ottawa can balance the budget and still spend billions on job creation and social programs, a leading left-wing think-tank says in its latest...

68,000 Federal Jobs Could Be Slashed: Think-Tank

CP | Julian Beltrame, The Canadian Press | Posted 03.23.2012 | Canada Politics

OTTAWA - Federal government spending cuts could chop between 60,000 and 68,000 jobs from the public service in the next few years, a report from a pro...

What CEOs can Learn from Left-Wing Think-Tanks

Jason Lietaer | Posted 03.05.2012 | Canada Business
Jason Lietaer

The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) put on a clinic in public and media relations when it released its report on CEO pay. While many of the titans of commerce were heli-skiing, jetboating, or lounging on private islands, the CCPC had the news media mostly to itself. And boy did it capitalize.

Rachel Mendleson

As Wages Stagnate, Canada's CEOs See Huge Jump In Pay

HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Mendleson | Posted 01.03.2012 | Canada Business

As debate about Canada’s rich-poor divide intensifies, a new report highlights the growing income gap between top-paid CEOs and average Canadians. ...

Canada's Super-Rich Getting Richer

CP | Heather Scoffield, The Canadian Press | Posted 03.03.2012 | Canada Business

OTTAWA - The richest of the rich have gained more ground in Canada, and are now making 189 times the average Canadian wage, according to a new report....

Canada's Wealthiest Households Are Most Polluting: Report

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 01.14.2012 | Canada Business

OTTAWA - A new study says the richest 20 per cent of Canadian households spew almost twice — 1.8 times — the greenhouse-gas emissions of the count...

14 Fracking Firms Fined 'Tiny Amount' For Not Reporting Water Use

CBC | Posted 01.03.2012 | Canada Business

More than dozen energy companies drilling in northern B.C. have been fined for not reporting how much water they use. The ene...

Balancing Toronto's Books, But at What Cost?

Sen. Art Eggleton | Posted 10.11.2011 | Canada
Sen. Art Eggleton

Making programs and services more efficient and effective is welcome, and that should help in reducing costs and better serving public needs, but it would be naïve to assume that efficiency alone could solve the deficit. Therefore cuts, and maybe tax or user fee increases, will have to be made.

Rachel Mendleson

The Dangers Of Cheap Credit

HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Mendleson | Posted 10.10.2011 | Canada Business

With uncertainty once again dogging the world economy, it now seems unlikely that the run of cheap credit that has made it easier for consumers to spe...