Workers at Ottawa's Salvation Army shelter say it is increasingly difficult to work for poverty wages.
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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.
April 8, 2013 |
We are adamantly opposed to a policy that seeks to undermine our Canadian standard of living while continuing to expose new arrivals to our shores with a new form of exploitation.
January 11, 2013 |
While the wealthy are getting wealthier, a worker in Sudbury whose wages aren't even keeping up with inflation plays a game each month to decide how to pay her bills.
August 29, 2012 |
Rural mail carriers still find themselves on the wrong side of the rural-urban divide. Their work is not recognized equally at Canada Post and they have a long way to go to achieve parity.