Before the flip
Yalnizyan: Austerity doesn't work: We cannot cut our way to prosperity
Teneycke: Why internal party unity may soon be the least of the Conservatives' problems
Ottawa adding new census questions on gender, Indigenous people, linguistic and ethnic minorities
Prime Minister’s Office mum on Trudeau testifying at committee over WE contract
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office is ignoring requests he testify at a House of Commons committee over the government’s cancelled contract to have WE Charity administer a new $900-million program, according to Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre.
The Conservatives, backed by the NDP and Bloc Québécois, put Mr. Trudeau on their witness list for the finance committee’s study of the contract. The study begins Thursday.
Ethics commissioner to investigate Morneau’s involvement in WE Charity contract
One-Third of Indigenous People in Canada are Struggling to Pay for Essentials During the Coronavirus Pandemic
A disproportionate number of Indigenous respondents are struggling financially and say they lack trust in the federal government’s plans to reopen the economy during the coronavirus pandemic.
CCPA: Resetting Normal Report: Women, Decent Work and Canada's Fractured Care Economy
Economic losses due to COVID-19 have fallen heavily on women, and most dramatically on women living on low incomes who experience intersecting inequalities based on race, class, disability, education, migration, and immigration status. The pandemic crisis has revealed the fragility of response systems and the urgent need for structural rethinking and systemic change.
BC Liberal MLA Continues Buying Ads in Anti-LGBTQ Magazine Despite Rules Set By His Own Leader
BC Liberal MLA Marvin Hunt is still running taxpayer-funded ads in an anti-LGBTQ magazine barely a week after his own party leader said it was “not acceptable” for BC Liberal MLAs to place ads in the publication.
CCPA: Households are on the flipside of the federal deficit
According to analysis from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), of the other sectors of the economy, 65% of the deficit was spent on households, 12% on supporting corporations with 5% going to the provinces. That 75% of the deficit for households breaks down into 27% on jobless benefits, 24% on payroll supports and 7% on lower income taxes (because incomes fell).
Ontario’s fiscal policies have wrecked long-term care
A new report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives demonstrates how the fiscal policies of successive Ontario governments have led to immense pain and hardship for long-term care residents, their families and the workforce.
Stanford: There’s no shortage of labour. Employers just need to improve their offer
Canada has just recorded the highest unemployment rate in its entire postwar history, so claims of a labour shortage seem far-fetched. The official unemployment rate is 13.7 per cent — and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Statistics Canada’s broader measure of joblessness (called the “underutilization rate”) is 35 per cent.
In other words, more than one worker in three wants work but can’t find it. That’s as bad as the worst years of the 1930s. What’s in short supply is jobs, not workers.