• While You Were Sleeping: Fed Policies Make It Easier to Hire a Cheaper You

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  • Meilinomics II: Income from Within

    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…

  • Educated Analysis vs Cappuccino Logic: Responding to the Quebec student strike

    It was bound to happen. After almost three months, Margaret Wente finally got wind of this kerfuffle in Quebec about students refusing to buy into the whole “but it’s…

  • The Federal Budget and Women

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  • Climate Justice Project

    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…

  • Bringing Up Baby

    How modern motherhood undermines the status of women Book Review: The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women; by Elisabeth Badinter, Metropolitan Books/Holt,…

  • A Cheap Shot at the Poor

    Harper government scraps the National Council of Welfare Ever since its creation by an act of Parliament in 1969, the National Council of Welfare has…

  • Employers Abuse Their Power Over Pensions

    Pension pie shrinks while bosses, unions fight over it The grand debate between defined benefit (DB) and defined contribution (DC) models has dominated the pension…

  • No News is Bad News

    Lack of fair labour reporting fuels the anti-union attacks Journalism was always the career I wanted, almost from the time I learned to read and…

  • Canadian Mining and Manufacturing Stumble

    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…

  • Canada’s Secret Bank Bailout

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  • Tax Day’s Birthday Presence

    This year, once again, I’ll celebrate my birthday as Canadians file their tax returns. I was born on April 30th. And considering my line of…