• An Open Letter to Margaret Wente

    We need to think more analytically about harm reduction This is an updated form of a letter I sent to Globe & Mail columnist Margaret…

  • Open for Business?

    What’s wrong with corporatizing our universities? Plenty! A serious problem for progressive people nowadays is that neoliberal discourse has become so established, so commonsensical, that…

  • Chaoulli II?

    So private surgical clinics, led by Brian Day, are suing the BC government so they can charge patients for services that they, the patients, already…

  • The utter stupidity of P3s in BC

    For the “we told you so” file. The BC government has been insisting on P3s (so-called “public-private partnerships” where the private sector builds and operates…

  • Alternative Federal Budget

    Federal Budget 2009

    CCPA Analysis Download 141.98 KB5 pages About the authorCanadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Forensic auditors say P3s expensive, biased and secret

    So who are you going to believe about public private partnerships (P3s)? One side of the debate says they’re swell. They save money for taxpayers,…

  • Fast Facts: Waste-Water and Water Privatization

    A Clear and Present Danger Download 492.38 KB 2 pages About the authorLynne Fernandez

  • Alternative Federal Budget

    Why Budget 2009 Leaves Canadians in the Cold

    For Stephen Harper, the only thing that matters about the 2009 budget is that it meets the political imperatives he imposed on himself with his…

  • Federal budget leaves unemployed in the cold

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA — Today’s federal budget leaves hundreds of thousands of vulnerable Canadians hanging on a very short rope…

  • Poverty reduction plan: can we afford it?

    Perhaps the more appropriate question is: can we afford not to have one? Public policy is always about choices, and there is no excuse for…

  • Burning down the house

    Sometimes I see a letter to the editor that in one sentence captures the essence of what I was thinking but does it better and…

  • Obama opens doors closed in BC

    One of President Barack Obama’s first acts was to reverse an order from the Bush regime that undermined Freedom of Information requests. What a contrast…