Fraser Institute Bombards Ontario With Ads Falsely Portraying Minimum Wage Workers as Teenagers

Published June 22, 2018 Fact-Check

Sorry, Fraser Institute: four-in-five Ontarians who stand to lose out under Doug Ford’s minimum wage rollback are adults

5 Things You Don’t Know About Minimum Wage Workers in Canada

Published April 14, 2015

Why raise the minimum wage? How about because “minimum and low wage jobs [are] becoming the norm”? That’s why a new report from the Canadian Labour Congress says giving minimum wage earners a raise is good economics: it puts money back in people’s pockets and increases demand for local goods and services – and that’s important given […]

New job numbers show Stephen Harper is driving Canada’s economy into a ditch

Published April 10, 2015

Shhh — listen. Can you hear that? You don’t hear anything? That’s because you’re listening to the sound of the Canadian economy slowing to a standstill. According to the latest jobs update from Statistics Canada released Friday, full-time jobs are down and part-time, precarious, low-quality jobs are up. But if anyone runs into Finance Minister Joe Oliver […]

Canadian manufacturing jobs plummet to near record low: Statistics Canada

Published March 13, 2015

Are Canadian factory doors being locked for good? The country lost 20,000 manufacturing jobs in February — the single-largest decrease in any sector. This plunge drove total employment in manufacturing down to 1,690,700 — the second-lowest level ever recorded by the Statistics Canada Labour Force Survey, which dates back to 1976. Many economists — and even banks — had thought the lower […]

Canadian women dropped out of the workforce in record numbers in 2014

Published March 11, 2015

This isn’t a good sign. After decades of increasing participation in the Canadian workforce, a record number of women dropped out in 2014, according to Statistics Canada data compiled by CUPE economist Toby Sanger. Over 80,000 women dropped out of the workforce last year alone, Sanger adds that, “the unemployment rate for women … would […]

Fraser Institute wonders if a good job with good pay and a good pension is “fair”?

Published January 23, 2015

Is a job offering a good wage, good benefits and a pension at retirement a bad thing? Many would say that sounds like a sound strategy to fuel the middle class and protect purchasing power in retirement. But one free-market think tank questions whether that’s “fair.” A new report from the Fraser Institute probes that question by […]