Cost of Living

7 Minutes

Canada

What else could we fund with the arms budget? Plenty!

PV May 21, 2024

By Dave McKee Ahead of the April 16 federal budget, polling company Ipsos surveyed 1000 people about what their priorities were. The results, published by Global News, indicated some definite trends. Far and away,...

4 Minutes

Canada Labour

Living wage in BC shoots to over $25 per hour, prompts more calls for price controls

PV November 13, 2023

PV Vancouver Bureau As the cost of essentials continues to balloon, particularly for housing and food, Metro Vancouver’s living wage has climbed to $25.68 per hour for 2023, according to the 2023 Living Wage...

5 Minutes

Canada Culture

Radical Housewives provide lessons for strengthening current fight to roll back prices

PV October 4, 2023

Radical Housewives: Price Wars & Food Politics in Mid-Twentieth-Century Canada Julie Guard University of Toronto Press (2019) Review by Manden Murphy Working people are living through the worst cost of living crisis in a...

3 Minutes

Canada

Five ways the federal budget fails working people

PV April 20, 2023

PV staff 1. The grocery rebate. Chrystia Freeland made a huge deal about this on Twitter, claiming “millions of Canadian families will use the new Grocery Rebate to help cover the costs of the...