Price controls

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...