Reading Time: 3 minutes Of 91 industries tracked by StatsCan, not one has had their wages eroded more by inflation than federal public sector workers
Author: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
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2023 budget finally limits vampire consulting firms in the public service
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Canada is suffering a care economy crisis
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canada’s governments must apply the lessons of COVID-19 to create a more gender-just future
Rents are out of control, but let’s not blame ‘the market’ for our woes
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Bank of Canada’s interest rate strategy is failing Canadians
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Reality check: CEO pay is out of control in Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes The CEO-to-worker pay gap is now 243 times more than the average worker’s pay
Feds must fix flawed housing benefit
Reading Time: 3 minutes The program risks failing the people it claims to assist
Women are retiring in greater numbers – and that’s a problem
Reading Time: 3 minutes Health care, retail trade and education/social assistance sectors especially hard hit
Canada and the Indo-Pacific: Slow boat to Cold War 2.0?
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