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Petrol’s Paid Pipers
Are the tar sands calling the tune in Alberta’s classrooms? Download 123.45 KB 13 pages “Petrol’s Paid Pipers,” from the Winter 2011 Our Schools /…
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Should you care who owns the Toronto Stock Exchange?
So maybe you didn’t lose a night’s sleep when the TMX group, the owner of the Toronto Stock Exchange, announced plans to merge with the…
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Raising the minimum wage: not if but how much and how fast
While lone voices from the business sector still oppose a minimum wage increase (as in this article in The Province), the minimum wage debate in…
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BNN and the growing gap
For the past few weeks, a business leader could scarcely pick up a magazine without bumping into that other inconvenient truth of our era: rising…
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Myths and Facts About the Minimum Wage in BC
Behind the Numbers Download 397.68 KB4 pages Iglika Ivanova sets out a compelling argument for raising the minimum wage — in just four-pages of clear,…
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Feminism FOR REAL
Deconstructing the academic industrial complex of feminism When feminism becomes its own form of oppression, what do we have to say about it? Western notions…
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Fast Facts: Reverse the Cuts to Anti-Gang Programs
Recent reports that federal funding for four anti-gang programs in Winnipeg will end in March raise the issue, yet again, of how our tax dollars…
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Christy Clark’s “sustained development”
A news release from the Christy Clark camp puts its focus on energy policy in BC. While the press release reads as slickly as its…
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National Child Neglect
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) annually puts out figures comparing infant mortality rates in countries around the world. Perhaps the biggest story…
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Why Governments Can Safely Ignore Hunger
Corporate food charity keeps hunger off political agenda Over the past 30 years, Canadians have increasingly been led to believe that community compassion expressed through…
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No Excuse for Inequality
Canada can easily afford to create a truly just society Five years ago, I went looking for statistical proof that poverty in Canada was inexcusable…
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The Local Financial Crisis
Exorbitant interest on payday loans hurt many Canadians There is no shortage of media coverage about the global financial crisis, bank bailouts, bankers’ bonuses, fears…
