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1. Increasing the Minimum Wage in Alberta: A Flawed Anti-Poverty Policy

   Main Conclusions As part of its effort to reduce poverty, Premier Rachel Notley’s government will raise Alberta’s minimum wage from $10.20 per hour, the rate when the Notley government took office three years ago, to $15 in October 2018. But, raising the ...

2. Time to rethink using the minimum wage as an anti-poverty tool in Ontario

   Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, June 20, 2018 Former prime minister Kim Campbell once famously quipped that “an election is no time to discuss serious issues.” Unfortunately, this is often true, as exemplified by the lack of meaningful debate on minimum wage ...

3. Time to rethink minimum wage as an anti-poverty tool in Ontario

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun, June 20, 2018 Former Prime Minister Kim Campbell once famously quipped that “an election is no time to discuss serious issues.” Unfortunately, this is often true, as exemplified by the lack of meaningful debate on minimum wage ...

4. Increasing the Minimum Wage in Ontario: A Flawed Anti-Poverty Policy

   Main Conclusions As part of its Poverty Reduction Strategy, former Premier Kathleen Wynne’s government was planning to raise the minimum wage from $11.60 in 2017 to $15 per hour by 2019. But, raising the minimum wage is not an effective way to alleviate ...

5. Raising B.C.’s minimum wage wrong way to help working poor

   Appeared in the Vancouver Sun, May 29, 2018 On June 1, the minimum wage in British Columbia will increase from $11.35 to $12.65 per hour—the first in a series of hikes on route to $15.20 in 2021. That’s a 34 per cent increase in three years. Despite ...

6. The unintended consequences of a $15 minimum wage in B.C.

   Appeared in the Victoria Times-Colonist, August 27, 2017 It seems obvious. If you want to give low-wage workers a raise, then increase the minimum wage. This is the thinking of B.C.’s new government, which recently promised to raise the minimum wage to ...

7. Minimum wage—good intentions not good enough

   Appeared in the Calgary Sun, July 7, 2017 Proponents of raising the minimum wage in Canada should take note of a new study on the economic effects of minimum wage hikes in Seattle. In a nutshell, the study by University of Washington researchers found ...

8. Premier Wynne gets the facts wrong about minimum wage earners in Ontario

   When the Ontario government announced its plan to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour last month, Premier Kathleen Wynne made a glaringly false statement about the reality of minimum wage earners. Specifically, she said: “Millions of ...

9. A higher minimum wage could hurt working Ontarians

   Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, May 17, 2017 As part of a wider set of labour policy changes, the Wynne government may increase Ontario’s minimum wage to $15 an hour, up from the current level of $11.40. The intention is to help lower-income workers and their ...

10. Flawed report on Metro Vancouver poverty unhelpful

    Appeared in the Vancouver Province, July 25, 2016 Poverty is a complex issue that concerns us all but it’s important to have clear understanding of the extent and nature of the problem before discussing ways to alleviate it. So it’s unhelpful when ...