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Brief Presented to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food
Download 214.99 KB 8 pages This brief, presented to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, analyzes the impact of key measures in…
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BC’s P3s promise “eye-watering” profits” for private investors. And more of them coming
Two stories that came out on the same day last week should raise concerns about where the BC government continues to go with public private…
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Don’t Kid Yourself: We all pay for the defunding of higher education
I went to McGill in the late 80s and early 90s when tuition fees were less than $1,200 a year, so with summer jobs and…
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Time to Expand the Manitoba Advantage.
There has been much discussion about the direction Manitoba Hydro (MH) is heading in and the role it should play in our province. It’s…
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Corak in Context
Professor Miles Corak had a post on The Globe and Mail’s Economy Lab yesterday comparing measures of unemployment in Canada and the U.S. I remember learning in Economics…
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Opting Out of Union Dues
Murray Mandryk’s excellent column today saves me the trouble of writing a lengthy blog post on the Saskatchewan government’s recent musings about labour legislation. From an economic perspective, it’s…
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Meilinomics II: Income from Within
The following is another excerpt from Dr. Ryan Meili’s new book, A Healthy Society: How a Focus on Health Can Revive Canadian Democracy, which fellow blogger Greg…
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While You Were Sleeping: Fed Policies Make It Easier to Hire a Cheaper You
About the authorArmine Yalnizyan
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Educated Analysis vs Cappuccino Logic: Responding to the Quebec student strike
It was bound to happen. After almost three months, Margaret Wente finally got wind of this kerfuffle in Quebec about students refusing to buy into the whole “but it’s…
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Climate change will shape BC in 2035, one way or another
We live on a different planet from the one our parents grew up on, says environmentalist Bill McKibben. Climate change from our rampant combustion of…
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No News is Bad News
Lack of fair labour reporting fuels the anti-union attacks Journalism was always the career I wanted, almost from the time I learned to read and…
