The Town Without Poverty
A guest post from Richard Pereira, a recent winner of the PEF Essay Contest… - Canadian Economics Association – The Town Without Poverty There were hundreds of speakers at this…
social policy
Reduce Student Debt to Reduce Household Debt
At this year’s Annual Conference of the Canadian Economics Association, Armine Yalnizyan gave a presentation entitled “Surviving the Recovery: The Distribution of Canadian Household Debt.” The panel was co-sponsored by…
Homelessness in Yellowknife
I’m in Yellowknife all week attending events relating to the launch of a policy report on homelessness. The report is one of several articles coming out of a multi-year research…
Access to Post-Secondary Education
I recently had the chance to read a 2008 book entitled Who Goes? Who Stays? What Matters? Accessing and Persisting in Post-Secondary Education in Canada. Edited by Ross Finnie, Richard…
Canadian Veterans National Day of Protest – Calgary Alberta
(a lot of links below, hope they all work ...)I attended the Canadian Veterans National Day of Protest this morning in Calgary. It was a good event on an unusually…