• Pining for some straight talk

    BC Forests Minister Pat Bell grabbed plenty of headlines this week when he said that the threats posed to resource communities by the mountain pine…

  • IWD commitments on my wish list

    With International Women’s Day on the horizon this weekend, I’m looking for some commitments. Women are over-represented in low-wage work. So which party in the…

  • And Another Thing About the Port Mann non-P3

    Now that the government has abandoned private financing of the Port Mann, it’s time to make the bigger but equally sensible leap and abandon the…

  • Balancing the Scales of Pay Equity

    The Need for Gender Analysis and Budgeting Download 266.58 KB14 pages

  • The Trouble with Housing for Low-Income People

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  • The Lawsuit

    The Lawsuit A couple of weeks ago I wrote that Brian Day and his followers had launched a lawsuit against the province, alleging that, “in…

  • The Tory Budget

    Business as usual Download 221.26 KB4 pages

  • Memo to Colin Hansen: Time for forest industry reality check

    If Finance Minister Colin Hansen’s budget forecasts are right, British Columbia’s battered forest industry is in for a modest recovery this coming fiscal year and…

  • The Case for Affordable Housing in Regina

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  • An Antidote to Ignorance

    Eugene Forsey debunks some Canada’s Parliament now appears to have returned to its pathetic “business-as-usual” mode in the aftermath of the inexcusable prorogation last December.…

  • Especially in a Recession

    Private sector couldn’t survive without public spending Many conservative politicians and business executives have denounced rather than acclaimed the government stimulus plans recently launched in…

  • The Struggle Continues

    Indigenous peoples still suffering from rights violations Indigenous women today work with many issues ranging from domestic violence, youth gangs, child welfare issues, land rights,…