2013 plant closure roundup

Published December 23, 2013

Canada’s jobs record in 2013 wasn’t pretty. Between November 2012 and November 2013, all of the net new jobs created in Canada were in the lowest paid and most insecure occupational group: sales and service jobs. There were just 172,400 new jobs created over this period. But sales and service employment rose by 191,700. These […]

Astroturfing exposed: real #workingcanadians hit back

Published December 10, 2013

Working Canadians, an anti-labour group that has sprung up just in time for an anticipated spring election in Ontario, is getting some blowback from real working Canadians who sniffed out the astroturf campaign. The group claims to be a bunch of non-partisan “volunteer individuals concerned that union leaders have too much influence over government, drive […]

Tory job record: low pay, no security

Published December 7, 2013

New jobs numbers released by Statistics Canada give the lie to the Harper government’s claim that our economy is doing just fine. Over the past year, between November 2012 and November 2013, all of the net new jobs created in Canada were in the lowest paid and most insecure occupational group: sales and service […]

Inconvenient numbers bust government’s fiscal update spin

Published November 12, 2013

The Conservative government is up to its old tricks: using selective statistics and incomplete numbers to talk up its economic and fiscal record. Check out how these key lines in the annual Update of Economic and Fiscal Projections, released Tuesday, don’t really hold up. Exhibit 1: Canada’s job creation numbers “Over 1 million more Canadians […]

10 new Conservative Party policies to worry about

Published November 4, 2013

Now that the dust has settled, here’s a roundup of 10 new policies of the Conservative Party that passed at the party’s weekend convention in Calgary — and why they’re bad for Canada. The party wants the government to: 1. Bring in a less progressive taxation system to cut taxes for the rich and have less tax revenue overall […]

Tag: Employment

2013 plant closure roundup

Astroturfing exposed: real #workingcanadians hit back

Tory job record: low pay, no security

Inconvenient numbers bust government’s fiscal update spin

10 new Conservative Party policies to worry about