Canada Emergency Response Benefit

Blog

Oct 1, 2020

UCP MLA claims businesses are struggling to find employees because workers 'make more on CERB, eating Cheezies'

David J. Climenhaga

Getson insulted more than a million Albertans who were helped by the benefit in the face of the COVID disaster and expressed a level of contempt for working people.

News

Aug 28, 2020

B.C.'s housing crisis to hit 'boiling point' as pandemic protections are set to be lifted

Anika Nykanen

Advocates say the end of pandemic support programs will inflame B.C.'s rental crisis.

Blog

Jul 13, 2020

We need a guaranteed livable income

Doreen Nicoll

Compared with the $71 billion that CERB will cost for just 24 weeks of payments, GLI could be a more fiscally responsible means of providing Canadians with financial security.

News

Jul 7, 2020

A look to the future: How Canada's pandemic recovery could benefit workers

Chelsea Nash

Reforms to Canada's employment insurance system are necessary, say workers' advocates.

News

Jun 11, 2020

Singh blocks Liberal plan to link support for disabled to CERB penalties

Karl Nerenberg

The NDP leader worries punitive measures could have unintended consequences, and could easily sweep up people who simply applied in error.

Blog

Jun 3, 2020

A basic income would be a major concession to the capitalist takeover of everyday life

Nicholas Erwin-Longstaff

If a basic income were to be introduced in Canada, it is unlikely the left would be in a position to ensure its implementation would safeguard the social safety net.

Blog

May 30, 2020

Pivoting from a service economy to a sustainable, equitable economy

Penney Kome

The pandemic is showing us all our weaknesses. We have time to correct them, before we destroy the planet in the endless pursuit of profit.

Columnists

May 15, 2020

It can't go on this way. Or can it?

Rick Salutin

Emergency spending by governments during the COVID-19 pandemic appears to be going well -- and that fact appears to be making right-wing ideologues nervous.

Blog

May 15, 2020

Why won't Ottawa do anything to rein in equine identity theft?

David J. Climenhaga

Twitter users were quick to point out to the Canadian Taxpayers Federation's Aaron Wudrick that any horse hoping to defraud Ottawa of CERB funds would need a valid social insurance number.

Columnists

Apr 30, 2020

Defining 'urgent' in the global pandemic

Karly Wilson

Pro Bono

Voices supporting the rights of disadvantaged groups were either excluded or ignored when "urgent" COVID response programs were crafted. The result is a response that puts bandages on deeper problems.

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