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Our Schools/Our Selves: Winter 2009
Sex Ed and Youth: Colonization, sexuality and communities of colour This issue of OS/OS unravels the seemingly impenetrable and often unquestioned connections between youth, sex…
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Real Change? Or Business as Usual?
New “New Deal” is unlikely to come from Obama presidency When the U.S. Treasury last October lavished $700 billion on Wall Street banks with no…
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Putting the public interest first (Part 2)
Corporations can and should be made socially responsible Read Part 1 What benefits could a government expect by amending corporate charters to include the public…
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Putting the public interest first (Part 1)
Corporations can and should be made socially responsible Corporations are different from other business entities because they attract capital investment by socializing a portion of…
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Path of Destruction
Canadian mining companies on rampage around the world Canada is the world’s leading mining nation. Sixty per cent of all public mining companies are listed…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Federal Budget 2009
CCPA Analysis Download 141.98 KB5 pages About the authorCanadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
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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,…
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Fast Facts: Waste-Water and Water Privatization
A Clear and Present Danger Download 492.38 KB 2 pages About the authorLynne Fernandez
