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The CETA and Nova Scotia: Oversold Benefits, Untold Costs
Halifax—Close consideration of the probable costs and benefits of the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (“CETA”) for Nova Scotia reveals that the agreement’s benefits are being…
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CETA and Nova Scotia
Who Pays for ‘Free’ Trade? Download 514.25 KB 44 pages This report is a step toward remedying the unjustifiable lack of transparency about the Comprehensive…
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FTA’s Assumed Benefits Can’t Be Found
Last month’s over-the-top “celebrations” of the 25th anniversary of Brian Mulroney and Ronald Reagan’s signing of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement seemed strained, to my mind.…
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BC’s Natural Gas Strategy is bad economics and bad for the climate
BC’s quest to substantially boost natural gas development seems like a real winner at first glance: heaps of new jobs in the Liquified Natural Gas…
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BC’s Natural Gas Strategy nothing more than a fairy tale
I have an oped in Saturday’s Vancouver Sun. The editor wanted me to focus on the claims of economic gains for BC, so the piece…
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Taxing the rich in Québec: major myth debunking
Annual income Increase in the effective tax rate $150,000 0.5% $190,000 1.3% $300,000 2.8% 2000 Effective tax rate 2009 Effective tax rate $0 to $15,000…
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Right-to-Work: The (Ayn?) Rand Formula
There’s reluctance among Canadian proponents to call for it by name. But Right-to-Work (longer, harder, without representation or recourse, for less money and fewer sick…
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Plan for $10 a day child care striking a chord with British Columbians
More than thirty years ago, the women’s movement put child care on the public agenda. And while there have been important successes along the way,…
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Charitable Organizations: A Pillar of Democracy
A variation of this blog post was published in the weekend Huffington Post as part of PEN Canada’s blog series examining freedom of expression for Non-Speak Week. While…
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Household debt going from bad to worse
Statistics Canada today revised the national accounts and found Canadians are now more indebted than either the Americans or the Brits were at the peak of…
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The Social and Economic (Under) Development of Northern Manitoba Communities Over the Past Two and a Half Decades
Download 1.61 MB46 pages Northern Manitoba is the area defined within the four Statistics Canada census divisons: number 19, 21, 22 and 23. It is…
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Our Schools/Our Selves: Fall 2012
Ne Lâche Pas! Striking shifts in education and community activism This issue of Our Schools/Our Selves is about the links between education and activism, but…
