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Pages tagged "economy"


The economy is all of us: Community benefits organizing in Canada

Posted on News & Blogs by Alejandra Bravo · July 26, 2017 3:20 PM

 

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The Broadbent Institute’s leadership development and training mission is to build backbone for left organizing in Canada. This takes on many forms, including training activists for campaigns. Increasingly we are aligning our organizational objectives, and that has opened new areas of leadership activity that focuses on our policy priorities: climate change, inequality and democratic renewal. This has led us to focus on supporting the development of a community benefits movement in Canada.

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The case for raising the minimum wage

Posted on News & Blogs by Andrew Jackson · July 07, 2017 2:07 PM

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Due to the strong lobbying efforts of labour and social activists, Canada's minimum wage floor is rising significantly from the current level of between $11 and $12 per hour depending upon the province. A new norm of $15 per hour will be in place, in Alberta by October, 2018, in Ontario by January, 2019, and very likely in British Columbia under the terms of the NDP-Green Party agreement.

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Christy Clark's flawed, risky home ownership gamble

Posted on News & Blogs by Sheila Matthen · June 26, 2017 9:53 AM

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In the lead up to the provincial election next May, the Liberal government has begun laying the groundwork for an election platform, announcing new policies in the hopes of wooing voters. 

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Canada-China trade agreement no deal for Canadian workers

Posted on News & Blogs by Andrew Jackson · May 14, 2017 4:19 PM

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Global Affairs Canada is conducting public consultations on a possible Canada-China Free Trade Agreement. Based on the record since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, further liberalization of trade and investment on the current model would not benefit most Canadians.

Following the ground breaking work of Branko Milanovic at the World Bank, economists increasingly accept that the rules of the liberal global economy have produced both winners and losers. The big winners have been the top one percent around the world who have benefited from a global rise in corporate profits and senior executive incomes and, to a degree, workers in developing countries who have enjoyed rising real wages. 

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Its time to change the rules of global trade

Posted on News & Blogs by Andrew Jackson · April 30, 2017 1:36 PM

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It is now three months into the Presidency of Donald Trump, and policy makers around the world are still unsure how to respond to the new administration's challenge to the liberal global order and the looming threat of “America First” trade  policies. 

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Fighting the ills of corporate concentration

Posted on News & Blogs by Andrew Jackson · April 18, 2017 2:19 PM

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Economics textbooks generally begin with a simple model in which prices of goods and services are determined by supply and demand in competitive markets and firms are “price-takers.” Yet it is much closer to reality to view the world we live in as one in which a handful of very large companies dominate most markets and have the power to administer prices so as to earn well above average profits or “rents.”

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Public investment and the innovation agenda

Posted on News & Blogs by Andrew Jackson · March 31, 2017 5:49 PM

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In response to recent rethinking of economic development policy, the 2017 federal budget announces a more interventionist innovation agenda. However, it marks only a modest shift in direction.

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On Trumponomics and China

Posted on News & Blogs by Andrew Jackson · March 25, 2017 10:04 PM

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While Canadians are understandably focused on what the election of President Trump means for our bilateral trading relationship and the future of NAFTA, a much bigger issue for the global economy is the pending clash between the United States and China.

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2017 budget falters on progress, tax fairness

Posted on News & Blogs by Andrew Jackson · March 23, 2017 9:14 AM

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The major challenge for the federal government in the budget was to maintain its commitment to progressive social and economic policies in the face of criticism from the right for its supposedly profligate fiscal policies and unwise promises to make the tax system more progressive. The government was also urged to trim its sails in the face of pending tax cuts in the United States.

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Does Trump signal the end for free-market capitalism?

Posted on News & Blogs by Roy Culpeper · February 09, 2017 3:17 PM

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Donald Trump’s ascension to the US presidency is being hailed by some as the end of globalization as we have come to know it in the last four decades. Others see in Trump’s electoral victory the end of neoliberal economic policy, which promoted free trade and free markets, and limited the scope of government. But German sociologist Wolfgang Streeck discerns in the demise both of globalization and neoliberalism the end of capitalism itself, at least the variety of capitalism that exists in North America and Western Europe.

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