Empowering Workers
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Economic Recovery: Getting it Right for Women and Families in Ontario
Canada requires a comprehensive strategy for economic recovery that helps workers re-establish and maintain attachment to the workforce, ensures adequate income for all, and supports inclusion and gender equity.
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Building British Columbia’s Recovery, Together: Proposals for a Just Recovery
We have an opportunity through the recovery process to not only get British Columbia’s economy moving again, but to ensure it moves in the right direction.
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Basic Income: An Explainer by Guy Caron
In this explainer, Guy Caron reviews Basic Income, how Basic Income differs from social assistance and disability benefits.
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Multi-Millionaires and Fair Taxes: The Case for a Wealth Tax in Canada
Our latest survey shows that the majority of Canadians are looking for a COVID-19 recovery plan that is fair, inclusive and compassionate, leaving no one behind, and 8 out 10…
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Filthy Five: Canada’s Tax Loopholes, Part 2
In 2018, the Broadbent Institute identified the five worst tax loopholes in Canada’s tax system. Little has been done to address these loopholes, which still drain money out of the…
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The Affordability Equation: How a Rising Concern About the Cost of Living Presents a Threat and Opportunity to Progressives
Concerns about cost of living, wages, and affordability have been an important part of Canada’s political discourse for many years. But we felt something was happening. Canadians seem to be…
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Filthy Five: Canada’s Tax Loop Holes
This document outlines the ‘Filthy Five’ tax loopholes in Canada that must be closed. The revenue of these loopholes can be up to $12 billion, depending on current tax rates,…
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Canada’s Working poor and the Working Tax Benefit
During the decade since its introduction, the major criticism of the WITB has been that it is a decidedly modest benefit, which is reduced and even lost completely at levels…
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The Brass Tax: Busting Myths About Overtaxed Canadians
Canadian news media are awash with coverage of studies purporting to show the growing burden of taxation, reinforcing a narrative that Canadians are paying high tax rates and providing justification…
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Networked Change in Canada
The report’s goal is to transmit a model that can be learned and replicated by other campaigners for how to blend grassroots participation and organizing with disciplined central planning to…
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Toward Adequate Income Assistance for People with Disabilities in British Columbia
British Columbia has a long way to go towards providing an adequate and dignified standard of living to persons with disabilities. In Toward Adequate Income Assistance for People with Disabilities in…
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Workplace Democracy for the 21st Century: Towards a New Agenda for Employee Voice and Representation in Canada
In this discussion paper, we make the case for a renewed national dialogue on 'workplace democracy'; advancing the fundamental rights of employees to associate freely and to have some say…