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Better seniors care a solution to overcrowded hospitals and surgery wait times
A recent landmark investigation by BC’s Ombudsperson highlighted the serious problems seniors experience in accessing affordable high-quality home and community-based services (such as residential care,…
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Dreaming Big Dreams?
Congratulations both to the Social Planning Council of Winnipeg (SPCW) for raising the issue of the long-standing divide between Winnipeg’s North End and the rest…
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Stuffing Solar City where the sun don’t shine?
The Halifax Regional Municipality’s Solar City project has been widely heralded as visionary and pioneering, an inspiration not only to other municipalities in Nova Scotia,…
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More Canadians Give Up Looking for Work
Canada’s labour market stagnated again in June. Employment edged up by only 7,000 as the working-age population grew by 30,000. In response to this job shortage, 17,000…
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Union Density and Unemployment
A major part of Hudak and the right wing’s argument for “right to work” laws is that weaker unions will bring more jobs. In fact,…
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800,000 Years
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) held its 35th session recently in Geneva, on the northern shore of Lac Leman. Across the water from…
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Will the Province Protect the Little Saskatchewan River?
The beautiful Little Saskatchewan River (LSR), recognized as a unique habitat for endangered, at-risk and common species, winds its way through Keesekoowenin First Nation and…
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Sliammon votes: what opportunities might come by sharing more than two sides of the story?
Sliammon (Tla’Amin) Nation, located on the northern segment of British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast, is making history. But not in the way that may have been…
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Keen on Economics and Canadian Debt
I was fortunate enough to be able to attend Steven Keen’s talk “Canada’s Debt Bubble” on June 28th , 2012 (recorded in full here) The session was…
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Equalization: is Québec committing a hold-up?
Is it normal that Albertans pay the much too generous social programmes to which the people of Québec are treating themselves through equalization, especially when…
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Inequality and Taxes
Presentation slides About the authorSeth KleinSeth Klein was a CCPA-BC research associate and the former CCPA-BC Director.
