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What the Right’s Rage Reveals
Jack Layton’s life and untimely death fundamentally changed Canadian political discourse. But both the public outpouring and its hyperpartisan response speak to another interesting shift…
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More carbon credit questions hiding in the trees
In January, a deal was struck between the Pacific Carbon Trust (the provincial Crown corporation responsible for buying carbon “offsets”) and one of British Columbia’s…
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The Middle East Revolution (Part IV)
Saudi Arabia helps crush the democratic uprising in Bahrain In a display of astounding hypocrisy in mid-August, the Saudi Arabian government denounced the Syrian regime…
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A Looming Social Crisis
Canadian governments should prepare for rising homelessness You can step over homeless people, but you can’t ignore them. The Great Recession is fading, but we…
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Less on their Plate
Canada’s poorest people facing a frightful food crisis “The Federal Reserve has done, and will continue to do, everything possible within the limits of its…
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Financial Crisis as a Way of Life
Neoliberalism drives chronic worldwide financial instability From Wall Street to Iceland to Greece to Ireland, the world is lurching from one financial crisis to another.…
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Beware Private Water Speculators
Planned Ontario mega-quarry threatens crucial water supply Hedge fund manager and billionaire Seth Klarman reportedly has a cautious approach to risk-assessment when investing for the…
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It’s a Living
Hennessy’s Index: A number is never just a number Hennessy’s Indexis a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy, about Canada and…
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On Labour Day, think about unions as an equalizing force
By raising the living standards of millions, labor miraculously created a market for industry and lifted the whole nation to undreamed levels of production. Those…
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Rising Tuition Fees: A debt sentence for Ontario families
Recently the Financial Post suggested a steady diet of Kraft Dinner and encouraging 13 year olds to become more entrepreneurial were strategic elements in helping students bear…
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Rising university tuition fee burden squeezing Ontario families: study
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA—Ontario’s system of financing higher education is becoming less equitable and more regressive for families, says a study released today…
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Under Pressure
The impact of rising tuition fees on Ontario families Download 842.75 KB36 pages Over the past two decades, Ontario’s system of financing higher education has…
