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		<title>Poverty in Yukon</title>
		<link>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/27/poverty-in-yukon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 21:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Falvo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canada's North]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child benefits]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[fiscal federalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[income support]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inequality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[minimum wage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quebec]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wealth]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.progressive-economics.ca/?p=13164</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Last week I was in Whitehorse where I released a peer-reviewed policy report on poverty in Yukon. The report was part of the much larger Social Economy Research Network of Northern Canada project. Report findings include the following: -Ignoring poverty can be quite costly, as has been clearly demonstrated by research on the &#8216;costs of [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Economics of EI “Reform”</title>
		<link>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/24/the-economics-of-ei-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/24/the-economics-of-ei-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 18:43:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Jackson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Employment Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labour market]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.progressive-economics.ca/?p=13151</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Changes to the EI rules announced by the government today are not rooted in any lengthy policy rationale. But Minister Finley and and the media release spoke to the need to &#8220;strengthen work incentives.&#8221; This conjures up images of  unemployed workers sitting around and spurning job offers amidst growing labour and skills shortages. As I [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Key EI Data No Longer Available</title>
		<link>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/24/key-ei-data-no-longer-available/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/24/key-ei-data-no-longer-available/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 13:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Jackson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Employment Insurance]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.progressive-economics.ca/?p=13146</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[As Heather Scoffield of Canadian Press reports here, Statistics Canada are no longer publishing key EI data because HRSDC have stopped providing it. Data on the dollar value of EI regular benefits are not published in the monthly Statscan release, but were available each month on CANSIM&#8230;  until March of this year. As reported on [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Shrinking EI</title>
		<link>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/24/shrinking-ei/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/24/shrinking-ei/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Weir</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Employment Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labour market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Macdonald-Laurier Institute]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.progressive-economics.ca/?p=13140</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Statistics Canada reported today that 2,500 fewer Canadians received Employment Insurance (EI) benefits in March. In total, only 549,400 out of 1,356,200 officially unemployed workers got benefits. The context for proposals to clamp down on EI is that only 40% of unemployed Canadians currently receive benefits. The Harper government wants to exclude even more jobless workers [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Duel of the Saskatchewan Expatriates</title>
		<link>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/22/duel-of-the-saskatchewan-expatriates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 21:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Weir</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NDP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil and gas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saskatchewan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.progressive-economics.ca/?p=13136</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Last week, I had the following letter in The Globe and Mail: Oil sands royalties The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers’ most recent Statistical Handbook indicates that, in 2010, this industry sold $101-billion of oil and gas but paid only $12-billion in resource royalties. Even Senator Pamela Wallin’s higher figure of $22-billion (Oil Sands’ Benefits [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Promoting Trade and Signing Free Trade Deals are NOT the Same Thing</title>
		<link>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/21/promoting-trade-and-signing-free-trade-deals-are-not-the-same-thing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/21/promoting-trade-and-signing-free-trade-deals-are-not-the-same-thing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Stanford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[free trade]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.progressive-economics.ca/?p=13129</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[DFAIT&#8217;s web site currently lists 18 different trade deals currently &#8220;in play&#8221; (and that doesn&#8217;t count the Trans-Pacific Partnership, where Ottawa is so far just flirting). But Harper&#8217;s push to sign as many FTAs as possible while he has a majority will not improve Canada&#8217;s actual trade, which is deteriorating (both quantitatively and qualitatively) the [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Krugman: End This Depression Now!</title>
		<link>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/20/krugman-end-this-depression-now/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/20/krugman-end-this-depression-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 17:34:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Jackson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[deficits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic thought]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.progressive-economics.ca/?p=13120</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I am an enthusiastic reader of Krugman&#8217;s columns and, especially, his economic blog. And I certainly side strongly with him in the intellectual and political struggle against &#8220;the Austerians&#8221; and &#8220;Very Serious People&#8221; who are unnecessarily prolonging the Great Recession in America and in Europe. That said, Krugman&#8217;s latest book &#8220;End This Recession Now&#8221; (Norton, [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>HRSDC Funded Research Contradicts Key Argument For New EI Policy</title>
		<link>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/18/hrsdc-funded-research-contradicts-ei-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/18/hrsdc-funded-research-contradicts-ei-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 15:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Jackson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Employment Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labour adjustment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labour market]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.progressive-economics.ca/?p=13112</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[According to today&#8217;s Globe, the government says that the major target of pending changes to EI is frequent claimants, who are disproportionately to be found in  the high unemployment regions. This focus seems to reflect the common belief that supposedly &#8220;overgenerous&#8221; EI benefits stop some people from moving from high to low unemployment regions. Interesting [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>More on “Labour Shortages”</title>
		<link>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/18/more-on-labour-shortages/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/18/more-on-labour-shortages/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 13:26:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Jackson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Job vacanices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labour market]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.progressive-economics.ca/?p=13107</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Here are the most recent Statscan job vacancy data by province. There were six unemployed workers for every reported job vacancy in Canada in the three months ending in January, rising to about ten unemployed workers for every open job slot in Atlantic Canada. Note that there is no information on what wages employers were [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Inflation On Target; Exchange Rate Off Target</title>
		<link>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/18/inflation-on-target-exchange-rate-off-target/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/18/inflation-on-target-exchange-rate-off-target/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 13:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Weir</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[exchange rates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inflation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[monetary policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OECD]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.progressive-economics.ca/?p=13104</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Today, Statistics Canada reported an annual inflation rate of 2%, precisely in line with the Bank of Canada’s target. With inflation under control and renewed risks to the global economy, there is little rationale for the central bank to raise interest rates anytime soon. In fact, the Bank of Canada should now be more concerned [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Federal jobs cuts: Clarity is always one year away</title>
		<link>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/17/federal-jobs-cuts-clarity-is-always-one-year-away/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/17/federal-jobs-cuts-clarity-is-always-one-year-away/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 14:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Macdonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservative government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.progressive-economics.ca/?p=13100</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I’ve commented on federal job cuts many times before (here, here, here &#38; here) and in the interests of beating this particular horse good and dead (no animals were harmed in the writing of these reports), the CCPA today is releasing my latest update on the matter: Clearing away the fog: Government Estimates of job [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>IRPP: No Denial of Dutch Disease</title>
		<link>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/16/irpp-no-dutch-disease-denial/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/16/irpp-no-dutch-disease-denial/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 02:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Weir</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[manufacturing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NDP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil and gas]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.progressive-economics.ca/?p=13093</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Canadian Press writes, “Mr. Mulcair’s analysis of what ails Canada’s economy is contradicted by a new independent study produced by the Institute for Research on Public Policy.” Really? What does the study conclude? As quoted by Canadian Press, “On balance, the evidence indicates that Canada suffers from a mild case of the Dutch disease, which [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Saskatchewan Manufacturing Hits the Wall</title>
		<link>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/16/saskatchewan-manufacturing-hits-wall/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/16/saskatchewan-manufacturing-hits-wall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 22:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Weir</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[labour market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[manufacturing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saskatchewan]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.progressive-economics.ca/?p=13085</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Premier Brad Wall was Tweeting about today’s Statistics Canada report of an uptick in national manufacturing sales in March. It is an odd report for him to trumpet, given that it found a decline in Saskatchewan’s manufacturing sales that month. Another recent Statistics Canada report, Friday’s Labour Force Survey, indicates that Saskatchewan lost 400 manufacturing [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Stock Market and Canadian Economic Performance</title>
		<link>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/16/the-stock-market-and-canadian-economic-performance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/16/the-stock-market-and-canadian-economic-performance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 18:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Jackson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[financial markets]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.progressive-economics.ca/?p=13082</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Glancing idly at the numbers, I find to my slight surprise that the Canadian stock market (S&#38;P/TSX) is now down about 25% from the May, 2008 peak, whereas the US stock market (S&#38;P 500) is down by only about 10% from its peak in May, 2007. So, since the beginning of the crisis, owners of  [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Memo to Ministers: The Issue is Unemployment Not Labour Shortages</title>
		<link>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/16/memo-to-ministers-the-issue-is-unemployment-not-labour-shortages/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/16/memo-to-ministers-the-issue-is-unemployment-not-labour-shortages/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 14:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Jackson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[labour market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.progressive-economics.ca/?p=13076</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The federal government is basing labour market policy on the belief that,  as Jason Kenney pithily puts it in today&#8217;s Globe, there are &#8220;large and growing labour shortages.&#8221;  Hence moves to bring in even more temporary foreign workers at lower than average wages, and to push EI claimants into supposedly available jobs. Not that the [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Why Can’t We Afford What We Used to Have?</title>
		<link>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/15/why-cant-we-afford-what-we-used-to-have/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/15/why-cant-we-afford-what-we-used-to-have/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 18:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Jackson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[economic growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inequality]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.progressive-economics.ca/?p=13068</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In this age of  austerity, we are constantly told by governments that we have to tighten our belts. Tuition fees have to go up; public pensions, Unemployment Insurance and social assistance benefits have to be cut; universal public health care is no longer affordable, and so on ad nauseam. But, as my friend Peter Puxley [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Tightening the Screws on the Unemployed</title>
		<link>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/15/tightening-the-screws-on-the-unemployed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 14:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Jackson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Employment Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal budget]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.progressive-economics.ca/?p=12964</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The significant changes to the Employment Insurance (EI) program which are to be quickly implemented through Budget 2012 with very little consultation have not received enough critical attention. First, a word on what is not in the Budget. It is disappointing, to say the least, that the government is failing to respond to the fact [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Defending Green Jobs at the WTO</title>
		<link>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/14/defending-green-jobs-wto/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/14/defending-green-jobs-wto/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 20:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Weir</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[international trade]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ontario]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.progressive-economics.ca/?p=13057</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[As a partner in Blue Green Canada, the United Steelworkers have issued the following news release: WTO Called Upon to Dismiss Japan, EU Challenge to Canadian Renewable Energy Policy Canadian NGOs and labour unions have sent an amicus curiae submission to the World Trade Organization (WTO) on the eve of a second hearing tomorrow into [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Energy McCarthyism</title>
		<link>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/14/energy-mccarthyism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/14/energy-mccarthyism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 11:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Stanford</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The high-and-mighty virtiol which greeted Tom Mulcair&#8217;s comments last week about the downside of oil-powered currency appreciation is lamentable (repeating the over-the-top reaction to Dalton McGuinty&#8217;s similar comments a few weeks ago).  Mulcair made two modest and empirically substantiated statements: the loonie is sky-high as a result of the oil boom in Alberta&#8217;s bitumen sands [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Postmedia’s Ham-Handed Assault on Mulcair</title>
		<link>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/13/postmedia-ham-handed-assault-on-mulcair/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/13/postmedia-ham-handed-assault-on-mulcair/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 00:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Weir</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[manufacturing]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Postmedia has posted Michael Den Tandt’s latest column, which will presumably appear in print tomorrow. He presents recent comments about Dutch disease as a departure from Tom Mulcair’s previous position: . . . when Tom Mulcair was driving hard to become leader of the New Democrats, he took polite but pointed issue with his party’s [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Jobs: Ontario Left Behind</title>
		<link>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/11/jobs-ontario-left-behind/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/11/jobs-ontario-left-behind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 13:25:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Weir</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[labour market]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Statistics Canada reported today that April was another good month for the labour market. The Canadian economy added 58,200 jobs, most of which were full-time and all of which were paid positions rather than reported self-employment. Paradoxically, official unemployment increased as more Canadians entered the labour market. This development provides an important reminder that unemployment [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Going to the Wall in Defence of Mulcair</title>
		<link>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/11/going-to-the-wall-in-defence-of-mulcair/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/11/going-to-the-wall-in-defence-of-mulcair/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 10:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Weir</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[exchange rates]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I have the following op-ed in today’s Saskatoon StarPhoenix: Royalty hike cure for Dutch disease Premier Brad Wall calls federal NDP Leader Tom Mulcair “very, very divisive” for expressing concern that Canada&#8217;s overvalued petro-dollar is eliminating manufacturing jobs. In reality, Wall is being divisive by exploiting this legitimate concern to fan the flames of western [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Temporary Foreign Workers and the Labour Market</title>
		<link>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/07/temporary-foreign-workers-and-the-labour-market/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/07/temporary-foreign-workers-and-the-labour-market/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 05:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Stanford</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Further to recent commentary regarding the Harper government&#8217;s dramatic expansion of the Temporary Foreign Worker (TWF) program, consider this shocking factoid: Even before the expansion of the program envisioned in the current omnibus &#8220;budget&#8221; bill, temporary foreign workers (who do not have the same rights as other Canadian workers, and whose presence here depends entirely [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Mining in the NWT: Who Gets What?</title>
		<link>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/06/mining-in-the-nwt-who-gets-what/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/06/mining-in-the-nwt-who-gets-what/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 21:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Falvo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In a recent blog post at Northern Public Affairs, Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox looks at the issue of &#8216;who gets what?&#8217; when a mine is developed in the Northwest Territories (NWT). Here is an excerpt from the post: - The resource extractor: they pay royalties (the NWT has the lowest royalties in the world), and costs of [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Canada’s Oil: For Sale to the Highest Bidder</title>
		<link>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/05/canadas-oil-for-sale-to-the-highest-bidder/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/05/canadas-oil-for-sale-to-the-highest-bidder/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 17:35:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Stanford</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Want to know why Canada&#8217;s currency is sky-high despite our sluggish recovery, our large and persistent current account deficit, and our lousy export performance? Check out this fascinating story in Friday&#8217;s National Post, by Yadullah Hussain, on why Canada&#8217;s oil reserves are such a uniquely hot commodity in the eyes of global oil corporations. The [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Corak in Context</title>
		<link>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/05/corak-in-context/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/05/corak-in-context/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 15:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Weir</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Professor Miles Corak had a post on The Globe and Mail’s Economy Lab yesterday comparing measures of unemployment in Canada and the U.S. I remember learning in Economics 100 that the official Canadian and American unemployment rates are not directly comparable, in part because Statistics Canada includes 15-year-olds whereas the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Opting Out of Union Dues</title>
		<link>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/04/opting-out-of-union-dues/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/04/opting-out-of-union-dues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 14:12:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Weir</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[media]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Murray Mandryk’s excellent column today saves me the trouble of writing a lengthy blog post on the Saskatchewan government’s recent musings about labour legislation. From an economic perspective, it’s worth noting that enabling unionized workers to opt out of paying union dues would create a classic free-rider problem. Indeed, Wikipedia’s article on this topic uses [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Austerity can be fought !</title>
		<link>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/03/austerity-can-be-fought/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/03/austerity-can-be-fought/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 20:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Pineault</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[progressive economic strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quebec]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Asked by an anglophone journalist what the Québec students struggle means for the ROC, this is what I had to say. http://cutvmontreal.ca/videos/1102 I&#8217;m was among a varied group of people who published a declaration tuesday, on May day, in support of the student movement. One of the main themes of our message was to link [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>While You Were Sleeping:  Fed Policies Make It Easier to Hire a Cheaper You</title>
		<link>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/03/while-you-were-sleeping-fed-policies-make-it-easier-to-hire-a-cheaper-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/03/while-you-were-sleeping-fed-policies-make-it-easier-to-hire-a-cheaper-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 20:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Armine Yalnizyan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[demographics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic growth]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A shorter version of this article appeared today in the Globe and Mail&#8217;s Economy Lab Have you noticed how common it has become to talk about replacing workers with even cheaper workers? If you&#8217;re looking over your shoulder, you&#8217;re not paranoid; you&#8217;re paying attention. There&#8217;s probably a cheaper you out there.  And in Canada, the [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>From Financial Crisis to Stagnation</title>
		<link>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/03/from-financial-crisis-to-stagnation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/03/from-financial-crisis-to-stagnation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 19:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Jackson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[economic crisis]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I am enjoying Tom Palley&#8217;s new book &#8211; and would post an enthusiastic review except for the fact that I have been unable to find the time to finish it. Certainly a very clear-headed take on the fundamental economic &#8211; and political &#8211; transformations that will have to take place if we are to escape [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Meilinomics II: Income from Within</title>
		<link>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/03/meilinomics-income-from-within/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/03/meilinomics-income-from-within/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 15:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Weir</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The following is another excerpt from Dr. Ryan Meili’s new book, A Healthy Society: How a Focus on Health Can Revive Canadian Democracy, which fellow blogger Greg Fingas has been discussing. The road to Tevele is red sand and sloppy in the rainy season. The pick- up truck bounces in and out of ruts as [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>“Differentiation:” The à-la-carte Way to Hire More Course Instructors</title>
		<link>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/02/differentiation-the-a-la-carte-way-to-hire-more-course-instructors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/02/differentiation-the-a-la-carte-way-to-hire-more-course-instructors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 19:36:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Falvo</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve written before about attempts in Canada to create more separation between university teaching, on the one hand, and university research, on the other. In 2009, I wrote this opinion piece about an attempt by five university presidents to each acquire a larger share of university research dollars. And last year, I blogged here about [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>If You Could Change One Thing</title>
		<link>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/02/if-you-could-change-one-thing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/02/if-you-could-change-one-thing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 15:32:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Stanford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[economic literacy]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I had a great change of pace last week, when I stayed out at the CAW Family Education Centre at Port Elgin to teach a 5-day course on “Economics for Trade Unionists” through the CAW’s Paid Educational Leave program. While I have guest lectured many times at Port Elgin, I have never actually taught a [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Federal Budget and Women</title>
		<link>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/02/the-federal-budget-and-women/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/05/02/the-federal-budget-and-women/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 15:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Jackson</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[(The following is from my colleague Angella MacEwen.) The only mention of either men or women in the 400-odd page 2012 Budget Implementation Bill is with regards to the appropriate use of donated sperm and ova. In analysis and discussions of the proposed omnibus bill, differential impacts for women, Aboriginals, racialized persons, newcomers, and *the [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Travels in Harperland</title>
		<link>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/04/30/travels-in-harperland/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/04/30/travels-in-harperland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 03:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Livesey</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[On my recent book tour to promote &#8220;Thieves of Bay Street&#8221; I have journeyed to Alberta, Montreal and Ottawa. In so doing, I have gotten a taste of the Canada which Stephen Harper and his merry band of Tories are trying to forge. In Calgary, I arrived in time for the final weekend of the Alberta [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Big Banks’ Big Secret</title>
		<link>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/04/30/the-big-banks-big-secret/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/04/30/the-big-banks-big-secret/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Macdonald</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The CCPA today released my report: “The Big Banks Big Secret” which provides the first public estimates of the emergency funds taken by Canadian banks.  The report bases its estimates on publicly available data from CMHC, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, US Federal Reserve, the Bank of Canada, as well as quarterly [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Canadian Mining and Manufacturing Stumble</title>
		<link>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/04/30/canadian-mining-and-manufacturing-stumble/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Weir</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Statistics Canada reported today that the economy shrank in February, driven by declines in resource extraction and manufacturing. Oil and gas extraction as well as hard-rock mining decreased due to temporary shutdowns. However, the most dramatic decline was in potash production, down 19% due to mine closures in Saskatchewan. The provincial government, which is budgeting [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Quebec Tuition: Between a Rock and Hard Place?</title>
		<link>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/04/28/quebec-tuition-between-a-rock-and-hard-place/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/04/28/quebec-tuition-between-a-rock-and-hard-place/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 23:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Falvo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.progressive-economics.ca/?p=12869</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In the context of student protests over Quebec tuition fees, my friend Luan Ngo has just written a very informative blog post on Quebec&#8217;s fiscal situation. While I encourage readers to read his full post, I do want to use the present space to make mention of three important points he makes: -On a per [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>PEF Conference, June 8-9</title>
		<link>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/04/28/pef-conference-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/04/28/pef-conference-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 23:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Weir</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.progressive-economics.ca/?p=12873</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The Progressive Economics Forum will be occupying the Calgary School (also Jim’s and my alma mater) on June 8 and 9 at the annual Canadian Economics Association conference. Our schedule of sessions is now available.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Climate change will shape BC in 2035, one way or another</title>
		<link>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/04/28/climate-change-will-shape-bc-in-2035-one-way-or-another/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/04/28/climate-change-will-shape-bc-in-2035-one-way-or-another/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 21:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Lee</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.progressive-economics.ca/?p=12862</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I have an oped in today&#8217;s Vancouver Sun as part of its BC in 2035 series. Climate change will shape BC in 2035, one way or another We live on a different planet from the one our parents grew up on, says environmentalist Bill McKibben. Climate change from our rampant combustion of fossil fuels has [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Quebec Student Protests: ‘Going International’</title>
		<link>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/04/28/the-quebec-student-protests-going-international/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/04/28/the-quebec-student-protests-going-international/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 14:37:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Falvo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.progressive-economics.ca/?p=12858</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A recent article by Stefani Forster, of the Canadian Press, suggests that the Quebec student protests may be starting a larger social movement outside of Quebec. According to the article: In the last few days, Quebec&#8217;s student protests have received coverage in French news outlets like Le Monde and Agence France-Presse, in Australia, in New [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Quebec Students: “Faire Leur Juste Part”</title>
		<link>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/04/28/quebec-students-faire-leure-juste-part/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/04/28/quebec-students-faire-leure-juste-part/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 13:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Falvo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.progressive-economics.ca/?p=12847</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Simon Tremblay-Pepin, an emerging social policy scholar, has recently blogged here (in French) about Quebec tuition fees. He points out that, when one adjusts for inflation, Quebec tuition fees are headed into uncharted territory. Indeed, contrary to some recent spin from the Charest government, Tremblay-Pepin makes two important observations: 1. When one takes an average [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Discussing Quebec Student Protests on Talk Radio</title>
		<link>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/04/26/discussing-quebec-student-protests-on-talk-radio/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/04/26/discussing-quebec-student-protests-on-talk-radio/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:25:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Falvo</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Last Friday, I blogged here about the Quebec student protests.  Subsequently, I was invited to appear on 580 CFRA News Talk Radio, with hosts Rob Snow and Lowell Green. I should note that Mr. Green is the author of several books, including: -How the Granola Crunching, Tree Hugging Thug Huggers are Wrecking our Country; -Mayday [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>PBO Strikes Again</title>
		<link>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/04/25/pbo-strikes-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/04/25/pbo-strikes-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Macdonald</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.progressive-economics.ca/?p=12841</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I wanted to tip my hat to the hard working folks at the PBO for a particularly revealing Economic and Fiscal Outlook that was published today.  While the PBO has more than once eaten my lunch on various issue they&#8217;ve done a superb job of looking at Canada&#8217;s economic and fiscal position. I&#8217;d point readers [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Oil Price-Loonie Transmission Mechanism</title>
		<link>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/04/23/the-oil-price-loonie-transmission-mechanism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/04/23/the-oil-price-loonie-transmission-mechanism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 03:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Stanford</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.progressive-economics.ca/?p=12831</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The most interesting comments from Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney last week, in releasing the Bank&#8217;s semi-annual Monetary Policy Report, dealt with the relationship between the price of oil and the Canadian currency.  The Globe and Mail reported Carney as publicly questioning why currency traders automatically presume such a direct link between the loonie [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>McGuinty Budget Would Cut Over 100,000 Jobs</title>
		<link>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/04/23/mcguinty-budget-would-cut-100000-jobs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/04/23/mcguinty-budget-would-cut-100000-jobs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Weir</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.progressive-economics.ca/?p=12825</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Last week, the Ontario Public Service Employees Union released an interesting report by the Centre for Spatial Economics on the economic impact of proposed provincial budget cuts. It provides a timely reminder that the public sector is a crucial component of the economy, with public spending also supporting many private-sector jobs. The Centre for Spatial Economics [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Neil Reynolds’ Fuzzy Tax Math</title>
		<link>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/04/21/neil-reynolds-fuzzy-tax-math/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/04/21/neil-reynolds-fuzzy-tax-math/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 03:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Weir</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.progressive-economics.ca/?p=12813</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[If you need help with your tax return, don’t ask Neil Reynolds. His latest attack on the New Democrat proposal to collect modestly more tax from Ontario’s super-rich stated that “the province’s highest marginal rate on personal income would rise, federal and provincial rates combined, from 46.4 per cent to 49.4 per cent – meaning that [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Meilinomics I: The Little Boats</title>
		<link>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/04/20/meilinomics-little-boats/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/04/20/meilinomics-little-boats/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 01:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Weir</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.progressive-economics.ca/?p=12803</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The following is an excerpt from Dr. Ryan Meili’s new book, A Healthy Society: How a Focus on Health Can Revive Canadian Democracy. There’s a family that comes frequently to the West Side Clinic; we’ll call them Lucas and Annie. Hardly a week goes by that I don’t see them in for a medical visit [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Rex Murphy’s Naive Take on the Quebec Student Protests</title>
		<link>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/04/20/rex-murphys-naive-take-on-the-quebec-student-protests/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/04/20/rex-murphys-naive-take-on-the-quebec-student-protests/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Falvo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.progressive-economics.ca/?p=12791</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[On CBC&#8217;s The National last night, Rex Murphy weighed in on Quebec&#8217;s student protests; the transcript can be found here,  and the three-minute video here.  He calls the protests &#8220;short sighted,&#8221; points out that Quebec already has the lowest tuition fees in Canada, and suggests the students&#8217; actions are &#8220;crude attempts at precipitating a crisis.&#8221; He [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Deflating the Monetary Hawks</title>
		<link>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/04/20/deflating-monetary-hawks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2012/04/20/deflating-monetary-hawks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Weir</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Canada’s business press has recently been filled with speculation that the Bank of Canada may soon hike interest rates based on its somewhat more optimistic economic outlook. But today’s Consumer Price Index report indicates that there is no need to raise interest rates. Statistics Canada reported that both headline and core inflation fell to 1.9% [...]]]></content:encoded>
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