Posts Tagged ‘economy’
Fairer pay in the public sector: Gender and new Canadian pay gaps in the public and private sectors, 2025
Thursday, October 15th, 2026
Pay gaps based on gender and immigration persist in Canada. The public sector remains a fairer place for both women and new Canadians to work—pay gaps persist here but they’re much smaller than in the private sector… executive compensation would have to ballon to reflect levels in the private sector. Ultimately, the private sector should strive to emulate progress made in the public sector at paying similar workers more fairly.
Tags: economy, gender, immigration
Posted in Equality Delivery System | No Comments »
New federal wage protections for part-time and temp workers are coming soon. Will they work?
Friday, October 9th, 2026
Under the new rules, employers are required to pay workers equally, regardless of whether they are full-time, part-time, permanent or temporary, as long as they perform “substantially the same kind of work” in “the same industrial establishment.” Federally regulated temporary help agencies will also be prohibited from paying their employees less than a client company pays its own workers for comparable work, or charging workers fees to secure job assignments.
Tags: economy, standard of living
Posted in Debates | 5 Comments »
How Ontario’s private clinics are draining taxpayer dollars and staff from public health care
Thursday, October 1st, 2026
Funding private clinics drains our public system, poaching staff and siphoning taxpayer dollars from front-line care. If interprofessional health teams are to succeed, the province must guarantee competitive salaries to staff them. Nurse practitioners need immediate provincial funding… Private clinics cost Ontario more, threaten patient safety and increase public wait times. They erode equity, accessibility and universality — the very foundation of the Canada Health Act.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction
Posted in Health Delivery System | 7 Comments »
Ontario’s minimum wage is falling further behind the living wage
Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
The 2018 minimum wage freeze, coupled with the weakening of rent control, dealt a double blow to low-wage workers and working families across Ontario. Poverty—measured in various ways—has increased in recent years as a direct result of these policies. The provincial government should raise the minimum wage to the living wage rate – a single change that would considerably improve the lives of more than 1.5 million workers in Ontario. That measure would go further in reducing working poverty ifpaired with regulatory changes that halt price gouging in rental housing and groceries.
Tags: economy, featured, jurisdiction, poverty, standard of living
Posted in Debates | 4 Comments »
Alternative federal budget 2026-27: Summary
Thursday, September 17th, 2026
Simply arguing for a strong Canada, without any other criteria, clearly isn’t cutting it… Recent federal budgets have been something of a wishlist from Canada’s corporate elites. The AFB… is a wishlist from below—of regular, working people and the movements they build. It is also a benchmark: a realistic, achievable outline of the Canada that we could have, if policymakers chose a route of ambition—a route of strength, but also a route of solidarity.
Tags: budget, child care, economy, Education, featured, Health, homelessness, immigration, Indigenous, Seniors, tax
Posted in Debates | 6 Comments »
To save Canada, Mark Carney is courting foreign money. He’s risking an ‘investment invasion’
Tuesday, September 15th, 2026
The aim is simple: build Canadian assets, don’t just buy them. Assets aren’t only physical. They include the human capital that drives the economy. The terms we negotiate determine whether public or private interests prevail. But terms mean little without enforcement.
The details determine whether the deal creates value for Canadians or extracts it. The investment invasion coming to Canada may have a polished look, but keep your eye on the price-tag.
Tags: economy, Health, ideology
Posted in Governance Debates | 8 Comments »
Why simplifying Canada’s tax code is about social trust, not just saving money
Saturday, August 22nd, 2026
Economic researchers at the University of Calgary have developed a framework to evaluate what happens when a government undertakes a tax reform, and they are taking a broad view of the social returns of tax… “Administrative reform can enhance fairness and trust, but if designed or evaluated narrowly through cost and yield metrics, it can deepen distributional inequities and erode public confidence”… The first plank is measuring the social return per administrative dollar spent…
Tags: budget, economy, standard of living, tax
Posted in Governance Debates | 26 Comments »
Beyond yes or no: Why Indigenous consent to resource projects is so complex
Tuesday, August 18th, 2026
Cultural recognition also shows up in the promotion of Indigenous identity, support — financial and otherwise — for certain practices and partial recognition of sacred sites. Still, it remains selective and conditional, contingent on its compatibility with mining operations.
Economic recognition, meanwhile, is a central dimension in its own right, going beyond mere monetary compensation to reshape communities’ social status.
Tags: economy, Indigenous, jurisdiction, rights, standard of living
Posted in Governance Policy Context | 1 Comment »
Canada’s oil giants are cashing in on conflict. Consumers are paying the price
Sunday, August 9th, 2026
It is neither inevitable nor reasonable that one industry should profit so obscenely from a war that is killing thousands, dislocating millions, and undermining the livings standards of billions. This situation reflects a deliberate policy choice: to give a few corporations power to charge whatever the market will bear for an essential commodity, regardless of cost of production or harm to society.
Tags: economy, featured, privatization, standard of living, tax
Posted in Debates | 6 Comments »
Who were the Luddites? Their legacy ripples through politics, cultural commentary and literature
Thursday, August 6th, 2026
Along with the political radicals and the labour campaigners over the course of the 19th century, they took part in a prolonged struggle waged for rights, dignity and justice. That struggle partially succeeded, forcing the ruling classes to compromise rather than continuing to rely on brute force.
Tags: economy, ideology, rights, standard of living
Posted in History | 21 Comments »
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