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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The Ethics of the Ethical Oil Cabal
With the recent demonstrations in Ottawa against the Alberta tarsands and the XL oil pipeline, most of the mainstream media very quickly bought into the…
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The State of the Economy and Labour’s Response
The advanced economies, including Canada, risk falling back into recession because of government spending cuts and a looming financial crisis. The IMF now forecasts that…
