Ottawa (30 March 2007) - The City of Ottawa has unanimously passed a resolution endorsing a $10 an hour minimum wage and petitioning the Ontario legislature to get on with the passage of Bill 150, putting the new rate into effect immediately across the province. (Keep reading…)

OTTAWA March 13

A recent national poll found that three in four Canadians think the minimum wage should be increased to at least $10.00 an hour. “The average minimum wage in Canada is currently less than $7.60, which would put a single individual who works full time under the poverty line,” said Canadian Union of Public Employees - CUPE, National President Paul Moist. (Keep reading…)

March 3, 2007

CCPA releases new report on Canada’s gap between rich and poor is growing, during the best of economic times, at a time when it should be shrinking. (Keep reading…)

Rabble.ca February 9, 2007

After years of pressure from anti-poverty advocates it seems that politicians and the media across the country have taken a renewed interest in the minimum wage. A number of provinces are in the midst of minimum wage discussions. Internationally the minimum wage has also been in the headlines. In Europe significant increases are being implemented and the U.S. Congress has recently passed minimum wage legislation to provide the first increase in almost 10 years. (Keep reading…)

Globe and Mail 03/02/07

The catastrophe of native life in Canada is old news. Decades pass, reports are drafted, articles are published, and nothing happens. Canadians have become as remote to the suffering as spouses in a stale marriage. (Keep reading…)

Manitoba’s ‘Fourth World’ Conditions on First Nation an eye-opener

Sun Feb 4 2007

By Don Marks (Keep reading…)

A Blog of the Progressive Economics Forum

Sat 27 Jan 2007

The minimum wage debate is heating up once again, with the NDP and labour strongly pushing for a minimum wage of at least $10 per hour in Ontario and at the federal level (as recently recommended by the Arthurs Report.) Anti poverty groups and the Toronto Star now strongly endorse a decent minimum wage as part of an anti poverty strategy. (Keep reading…)

January 25, 2007

A campaign is building momentum to have both federal and Ontario legislators approve private members’ bills calling for a $10 per hour minimum wage. (Keep reading…)

Winnipeg Free Press Wed Jan 17 2007

‘WE had to take it beyond poverty. We had to give everybody a stake in the issue. We had to show what’s happening to us as a society. We had to get people talking about how disconnected the winners have become from the rest of us. It’s the central economic and social issue of our day.” This is economist Armine Yalnizyan describing the reasons behind the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ Growing Gap project. (Keep reading…)

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives — November 27

A new national poll conducted by Environics Research for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives shows a record-high 76% of Canadians believe the gap between rich and poor has widened over the last 10 years. (Keep reading…)