Alternative Federal Budget: what the federal government could achieve on income and poverty

Tenants across the country are feeling the pinch from landlords. Just how bad is it where you live?

Making postsecondary education affordable means more than reducing fees

Submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology by CCPA senior researcher Katherine Scott

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.

The widespread relief programs in the early days of the pandemic showed that it is indeed possible to quickly and dramatically reduce child poverty.

It isn't exactly a shining beacon of equality, but Quebec does a lot of things better. Those policies are the result of relatively strong unions and social movements.

Income inequality isn't just about salaries—it's a pervasive problem with dire implications on a range of social issues, from health to the environment to education.

We're heading into an increasingly unstable world, and we're going to need real solidarity to make it through.

The people who are least responsible for climate change will feel its effects the hardest. It's time for policy-makers to address that injustice.

For the unlucky children born on the lower rungs of Canada's ladder of inequality, accessing quality education is hard. It doesn't need to be this way.

Understanding inequality, and providing policymakers the tools to combat it, is a role the CCPA is happy to fill.

Our country has the resources to provide dignity for all—our leaders' failure to do so is a political choice.

For policy-makers, perhaps the most obvious lesson of the pandemic is that poverty, including child poverty, can be reduced much more quickly than Ontario has done in recent years. Timid policies that unfold incrementally over decades are of no use to children who will be grown up before we finally get around to taking action.

The 100 best-paid CEOs in Canada broke every compensation record in the books in 2021, some of which reflects excess corporate profits due to record-high inflation.