Alternative Federal Budget: what the federal government could achieve for a fair and equitable transition away from fossil fuels

Alternative Federal Budget 2024: here's what the federal government could achieve on Employment Insurance (EI)

Bumpy Ride Fall 2022 Update #7: Women workers are changing industries—and they're looking for better pay

Bumpy Ride Fall 2022 Update #6: Workers in the care economy have been battered over the past two years, and that crisis shows no signs of slowing.

Bumpy Ride Fall 2022 Update #5: Women's salaries are failing to keep up with inflation—a look at the latest numbers

Bumpy Ride Fall 2022 Update #4: A new trend is emerging—women workers taking early retirement, especially in pandemic-affected industries.

Bumpy Ride Fall 2022 Update #3: Fall 2022 labour force data shows that pandemic-vulnerable sectors still have not recovered from COVID-19.

On the whole, Canada’s richest one per cent got a decent raise in the first year of the pandemic; the bottom 50 per cent? Not so much.

Bumpy Ride Fall 2022 Update #2: Looking at the racialized employment gap among women workers in the Fall 2022 labour force data

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

The federal government just released its latest fiscal update. CCPA senior economist David Macdonald has the details.

Two-thirds of job postings are offering wages that are too low to entice applicants. Employers are going to have to be more competitive to fill those jobs.

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

What the new agreement gets right—and where there's room to go bolder

It is past time for our governments to design regulations that actually protect vulnerable borrowers from usurious lenders.

As we head into budget season, the question we should be asking is: recovery for whom?