Bumpy Ride Fall 2022 Update #1: Labour market data from Fall 2022 shows an uneven recovery for women workers.

Postal workers have a plan to build alternatives to for-profit banking sector

The Ontario government just declared war on the constitutionally protected right to strike, using the notwithstanding clause.

Pandemic supports, mostly from the federal government, contributed to the largest one-year reduction in poverty in nearly 50 years.

Income inequality went down between 2015 and 2020, thanks to government supports. But COVID-19 economic shutdowns threw a wrench into the works.

When she was 34 years old and a single mother of four living on social assistance in a large public housing complex in Winnipeg’s North End, Aja Oliver saw a sign at a community centre for an Adult Learning Centre. She had not finished high school, had struggled, as did everyone in her family, with the many complexities of life in poverty, and was fed up with being on social assistance. She ventured in. Her life has not been the same since.

Changes open the system up to privatization by for-profit multinationals

On January 28, the city of Ottawa changed forever as a hate-fuelled convoy set up camp for what would become a 26-day occupation.

Addressing and sorting through the Freedom Convoy's wreckage is a job that belongs to all white people in Canada.

38% of households in Canada rent their homes. So why isn't more attention paid to the investors who control up to one third of Canada's rental housing stock?

Government custodians of wealth and power have been unwilling to address the income and wealth pyramid in Canada. They neglect this at our peril.

The federal Liberal-NDP agreement has resulted in the first step toward a national dental care program, starting with children. There’s a strong case to grow this public investment

Our analysis of the 2022 federal budget

The pandemic, through the eyes of our researchers

This budget could herald the beginning of a Pearsonian period of progressive policy making

Twenty-six per cent of higher inflation for Canadian households is being driven by excess profits