• Occupy Protests … It’s About Time!

    Here is my commentary published in the Globe and Mail (web edition) on Sunday, regarding the wonderful Occupy Together events held in Toronto and almost 1000 other…

  • O’Leary breached CBC standards, Ombudsman rules

    It took just a week following the airing of an “interview” on CBC television’s The Lang & O’Leary Exchange for the public broadcaster’s Ombudsman, Kirk…

  • Roubini on the Instability of Inequality

    Business-school professor and economist Nouriel Roubini earned his nickname Dr. Doom by repeatedly predicting the chain of events that would cause the global economic house…

  • Fast Facts: Post Election 2011

    How will the Selinger government move Manitoba forward? On October 4th Manitobans gave Selinger’s NDP a mandate to govern for the next four years. The…

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    Tar Sands and the CETA

    Download 129.48 KB4 pages The recent decision by the European Union (EU) to disregard Canadian government pressure and forge ahead with regulations that recognise the…

  • Keep Up the Good Work! (Just don’t expect us to pay you for it.)

    An Open Letter from the Top 1%. We know it’s been a while since we talked; it’s not that we haven’t wanted to, it’s just…

  • First We Take Manhattan… What Occupy Wall Street Could Mean

    This is not the stuff of usual protests. Over the past month, a little idea from a Vancouver outfit has mushroomed into a cross-continent movement. Occupy Wall…

  • Are Smart Meters Worth the Cost?

    A notice in my mailbox last week told me that smart meters are going to be installed in my neighbourhood. I’ll admit that the geek…

  • BC’s Top 1%: Doing fabulous, thank you

    Occupy Wall Street has shone new light on the growing gap between the richest 1% and the rest of us (the 99 percenters). But that’s…

  • One Way the Richest 1% Can Help The Other 99%

    It’s often said that there aren’t enough rich people in Canada to make a real difference to fiscal policy and, in consequence, the rest of…

  • Occupy Wall Street Asks the Big Questions

    “We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%”..say the Occupy Wall Street protesters. This grass roots protest started…

  • Why Unions Matter

    Bruce Campbell and Armine Yalnizyan Are unions more of a problem than a solution today? Anti-union sentiment has accelerated since the global crisis of 2008…