For Canada’s 100 highest paid CEOs, the rewards start clocking in very early into the New Year. By 1:18pm on January 2, the first official working day of the year, Canada’s top 100 CEOs will have already pocketed $45,448. It takes the average Canadian an entire year of full-time work to earn that. This factsheet, Overcompensating:

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Let us pause to dwell on the meaning of Christmas – Peace and Good Will toward others; two values that seem lost amid the troubles and concerns that preoccupy us. Let us extend our hand in Solidarity to others of different faiths and cultures and build the bridge of Friendship and Shared Community, so that

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On December 5, the Manitoba Federation of Labour hosted more than 100 children from two inner city schools for the annual Labour Christmas Tree. The annual event provides kids with a fun party featuring live children’s entertainers, yummy treats, a visit from Santa and gifts. This year’s event invited children from Nijimahkwa School and Pinkham

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By Lynne Fernandez, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives A story in the Winnipeg Free Press’s The View from the West (Private Ontario liquor stores will benefit consumers) brings the issue of privatizing liquor sales to readers’ attention. Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives plan on privatizing retail liquor sales in Ontario should they take power, and the author is

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Since December 6th, 2011, eleven women have been killed in Manitoba. The Manitoba Federation of Labour Women’s Committee marked the 2012 December 6th Day of Remembrance with a lunch gathering at the Union Centre  to mourn these women and all women who are victims of violence. December 6th marks the day when 14 women students

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