While economic theory assumes wages reflect productivity, real-world data reveals persistent pay gaps based on gender and immigration status. To isolate these disparities, this study analyzes 2025 ...
Canada and Canadians have long held themselves out as promoters, protectors and champions of human rights. From the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms to the Canadian Bill of Rights, to the key ...
B.C.’s election got really interesting with an out-of-the blue NDP proposal to hike income taxes for the top earners in the province. This reflects Premier David Eby’s broader pivot to more populist ...
On September 21, the federal government introduced Bill C-39, a major piece of legislation that they’re calling An Act respecting certain measures to strengthen the economy. Despite the vague name, ...
At budget time in February 2026, a number of commentators expressed grave concerns about the growing size of B.C.’s budget deficit and overall provincial debt. B.C. is caught up in Canada’s trade war ...
The Ontario government is aggressively promoting greater for-profit involvement in health care delivery. The most pronounced shift in this policy direction came in 2023 with the passage of Bill 60 ...
The Carney government clearly has huge support for its resistance to the U.S. tariff war. However, that support must not hinder us from criticism or from standing up for progressive policies. For ...
A lot of AI discourse sounds like it could be talking about inevitable natural phenomena, like the tides or the changing of the seasons. AI is coming, they say, and we had better be ready for it.
This report clearly lays the case for why the Nova Scotia government can and should enact legal and regulatory changes to facilitate unionization. Belonging to a union is associated with higher ...
For 2026, the Winnipeg living wage is increasing by $0.54 to $20.31 an hour, while living wages for Brandon and Thompson are increasing by $1.18 and $0.84, to $17.40 and $18.73 an hour, respectively.
The gap between Ontario’s minimum wage and living wage continues to grow. The minimum wage is a legal floor: the minimum amount the provincial government requires employers to pay workers. Although ...
Writing in the 1930s, economist Harold Innis described Canada’s economic situation in biblical terms: the country, he said, acted as “hewers of wood, and drawers of water.” This, he wrote, was ...
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