New from @ccpa: Company Men: CEO Pay in Canada, 2023. On average, the top 100 CEOs were paid 210X more than the average worker’s wage in 2023, and this wealth gap is only growing: In 1998, they'd made 104X more. Report busts key myths about CEOs' worth: https://lnkd.in/gu_ivdxG
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Research
Ottawa, Ontario 14,153 followers
Canada's leading progressive think tank publishing research that helps build a more equitable and sustainable future.
About us
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is Canada’s leading independent, non-partisan research institute concerned with issues of social, economic and environmental justice. Founded in 1980, the CCPA has shaped Canada's public policy debates for forty years on issues ranging from access to services like child care to how Canada can prepare for a truly just transition away from fossil fuels. We have a National Office in Ottawa, and provincial offices in British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, and Nova Scotia. We work with top-notch researchers to shed light on the key issues facing Canada. Whether it’s how renters are getting squeezed out of the housing market, the growing gap between the ultra-rich and the rest of us, or how Canada will can build an equitable recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, we set the record straight. CCPA research doesn’t just sit on a shelf gathering dust. As a strong and credible voice, we are featured in hundreds of media stories every month. We don’t just analyze problems. We work on solutions—solutions that show Canadians’ best values are not only possible, they’re practical. These ideas are anchored by some basic principles: human dignity and freedom, fairness, equality, environmental sustainability, and the public good. They show that we can afford to build a more just and sustainable Canada—and that our economy will be stronger for it. The CCPA is a registered non-profit charity. We depend on supporters across Canada. Make a donation today to help our work go even further.
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http://www.policyalternatives.ca
External link for Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
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- 11-50 employees
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- Ottawa, Ontario
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- Nonprofit
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- 1980
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141 Laurier Ave W
Ottawa, Ontario, CA
Employees at Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
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Somehow corporate Canada keeps trying to convince us that if their capital gains are treated more like workers’ income they’re all going to leave. They’ve produced economic models that show exactly that. But we don’t have to guess, we can just look as we’ve had capitals gains more equitably treated before for the entirety of the 1990s. What happened? Corporate investment doubled! David Macdonald Read more: https://lnkd.in/gCtd9RTj
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Global oil demand will decline as the world transitions to a clean energy economy, and that spells trouble for the oil sands. In a scenario where most countries follow through on their climate commitments, oil sands projects start falling like dominoes in the 2030s. That’s good news for the environment, but it’s a huge liability for Alberta. Governments, communities and workers in the province do not have plans in place to diversify and adapt to a post-oil world. Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood Read more: https://lnkd.in/gzc9v3ep
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Two years ago, young people had their pick of jobs in the hot labour market in 2022. Fast forward to summer 2024, youth unemployment hit 14.2 per cent. The youth employment rate has been worsening for over a year—dropping four percentage points between summer 2023 and summer 2024. Among full-time students, the decline was even larger—almost seven percentage points. That’s a loss of 112,000 jobs among students in just a year. A very large group of young workers is bearing the brunt of the economic slowdown caused by high interest rates in the context of rapid population growth, competing for a limited number of openings not only among themselves but with older, more experienced workers too. Governments, post-secondary institutions, and employers need to be doing much more—but to tackle the surge in youth unemployment and the growing generational divide between good jobs and bad jobs. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gFX7xKu5
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We will be counting down our top charts for 2024. First up is from the Ontario office (tag). Visits to the Toronto Public Library surpass by far the attendance of the city’s major sports teams. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gqMKRJia
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"Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood senior researcher with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, called Freeland’s decision a 'statement resignation' that seems 'deliberately designed to blow up the government.'" https://lnkd.in/gN6uCQXD
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The Fall Economic Statement was already dead when we first laid eyes on it. What do its contents say about the priorities of the current government, and what's to come? https://lnkd.in/gcUVzxzC
What was the point of Canada’s 2024 Fall Economic Statement? | CCPA
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Standardized tests don't help kids, they don't help teachers, and they drain resources from schools. So why is Saskatchewan's government trying to force them on the province? https://lnkd.in/gQ4UCw5A
Saskatchewan picks another fight with teachers over standardized tests | CCPA
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