in his own words

Fight like the Greeks

After months of proclaiming all was good in the Canadian economy, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced at the start of October that "boom times are over."

The Harper government has spent the past two years arguing that Canada was a model for escaping the depth of the recession that has hit Europe and the U.S. so hard.

Now the Tories, after claiming that they had steered Canada through a recession, are speculating that they might have to continue stimulus funding to keep the economy from sinking.

But the talk of a robust recovery conceals the reality of what workers in Canada have already suffered through for the past several years.

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Karl Nerenberg

Hill Dispatches: Lower migrant pay and tougher EI rules - pushing down wages

| May 17, 2012
modest proposal

Resolving the strike at Ottawa's Salvation Army shelter

Photo: PSAC-NCR | AFPC-RCN/Flickr

Several weeks ago we, as concerned Christians, met at a local church with some of the striking workers from the Salvation Army Booth Centre on George Street in Ottawa's Byward Market. The staff members spoke first and at length about the people they serve, some with serious mental health problems and those trying to conquer alcoholism or addictions, many of whom are homeless. It was clear to us that these workers, whether as a front-line counsellors or as support staff in the kitchen, must have both skill and dedication to do what they do. These workers have both.

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Modest inflation outstrips wages and Canada Social Transfer

| December 27, 2011

Battle of the Wages study dispels myths about public sector wages

| December 13, 2011
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Danger: Wage deflation ahead

The labour market is in much worse shape than the official 7.3 per cent unemployment rate implies. The latest evidence for this proposition is a miserable report on employment and earnings from Statistics Canada.

Recovery demands increase in labour's share

| November 2, 2011

Who's over or underpaid?

| September 30, 2011
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