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. online pharmacy https://www.taylordrivedental.com/wp-content/uploads/backup/2024/02/sildalis.html no prescription pharmacy Over 80,000 women dropped out of the workforce last year alone, Sanger adds that, “the […]

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 […]