Governments aren’t households—and their budgets don’t act like them

Like a vampire, consulting firms are suave and sophisticated actors that aim to gain the trust of their targets.

Canada has made big progress on child care costs—but has a lot of work to do on availability of spaces.

New research shows that child care availability in Canada has a long way to go

But inflation and low government wage offers threaten to erase those gains.

Federal public sector workers haven’t seen an inflation-adjusted raise since 2007—the worst of any industry in Canada.

Remarks to the Agriculture and Agri-Food Committee of the House of Commons

We need to do better at getting benefits to those who need them.

We’re not expecting many bells and whistles in this federal budget. It doesn’t need to be that way.

There’s more money on the table—but without adequate strings attached, the provinces could end up spending it on tax cuts instead of fixing health care.

While they might have helped in the summer of last year, interest rate hikes are now actually increasing inflation.

CCPA Senior Economist David Macdonald breaks down the numbers by creating a new methodology, which shows that corporate profits are eating up the vast majority of the extra inflation dollars, far outpacing increased labour costs or other expenses.