Union Bug Blog
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Nov 03, 2009 -
Public Employees Shouldn't Have to Pay a Price
Let’s start with the most obvious of facts. Canada, like most of the world, is still struggling with the effects of the Great Recession.
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Oct 23, 2009 -
Canada Needs Tax Fairness, Not The HST
We’re long overdue for serious tax reform in this country. Most Canadians agree on this. But the new unfair Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) in Ontario and BC is not what most of us had in mind.
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Oct 20, 2009 -
The Problem of "Stacking"
A new report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) examines how federal and provincial benefits actually get wiped out with minimal wage increases, thereby doing more harm than good.
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Oct 13, 2009 -
The Recession is Not an Excuse
Over the last decade public employees have been taken advantage of by governments that used the excuse that public sector employees were to blame for the deficits governments were facing. Civil service jobs were slashed to finance tax cuts, although it never was public sector workers that were the cause of these deficits. But the deficit excuse was used to justify the erosion of the bargaining rights of workers.
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Oct 02, 2009 -
Child Care Programs Produce Big Economic Bang
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Sep 25, 2009 -
Yet Another Anti-Labour "Study"
The Fraser Institute has just released a new study in its Studies in Labour Markets series. Entitled “Labour Relations Laws in Canada and the United States,” the report claims to be an “empirical” comparison between labour law in the two countries.
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Sep 21, 2009 -
Canada's Tragic Failing Grade on Child Poverty
A report by the Conference Board of Canada says Canada ranks a dismal 15th among 17 developed countries in poverty, mainly because of alarming levels of poverty among children.
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Sep 10, 2009 -
Obama's Health Care Fix
US President Barack Obama recently spoke to Congress in a bid to gain much needed consensus for his proposed overhaul of the US health care system.
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Sep 04, 2009 -
The Fraser Institute and the Flat Earth Society
Pointing out that the Fraser Institute has released a perverse study ignoring established facts in order to make its case is a bit like pointing out that the sun rises in the east. It’s kind of self-evident. But the institute's latest bit of silliness is over the top even for the notoriously fact-averse Fraserites.
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Aug 28, 2009 -
Canada's Banks Rake in Massive Profits