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Canada’s proposed high speed rail shouldn’t be a public private partnership
About the authorsSimon EnochSimon Enoch is the senior researcher for Saskatchewan issues and policies. He holds a BA in Political Science, a Masters in Labour…
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Challenging capitalism: a 12-step program
Over a year ago, I posted “What are the Game Changers?“, an attempt at sparking some strategic thinking for the broader left. Now that we’ve…
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A Progressive Alternative to the Harper Agenda
The Harper government is set to cut spending on public services and social programs in the name of deficit reduction, but implemented mainly to increase…
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Fast Facts: “Housing” that will lead to a need for more social housing
After years of complaining that Canada is the only G-8 country without a National Housing Strategy, housing advocates are finally getting their way. The federal…
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The Mowat Centre and Employment Insurance
The Mowat Centre final report on Employment Insurance (EI) released today has won a fair bit of media attention, and will serve to deepen the national debate…
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Growing support for cities to adopt living wage
New developments since my recent post calling on municipalities to lead the way on adopting living wage policies: First, over just over 100 candidates have…
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An Inconvenient Occupation
A friend recently said she supported the Occupy movement but felt their activities were inconveniencing others. I thought of this while watching police clearing Occupy…
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Who Occupies the Sky?
CCPA released a new report today by myself and Amanda Card that makes the links between inequality and carbon footprints. We look at the distribution of greenhouse…
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Richest 20% of Canadians have biggest carbon footprint
OTTAWA—The richest 20% of Canadian income earners are responsible for almost double (1.8 times) the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of those in the lowest income…
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Who Occupies the Sky?
The Distribution of GHGs in Canada Download 340.23 KB7 pages To create effective policy for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, it is important to identify…
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Our Schools/Our Selves: Fall 2011
Instruments of Social Change The fall 2011 issue of Our Schools/Our Selves asks: “If schools are truly to be instruments of social change, how we…
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Time to give shale gas industry a closer look before we’re totally fracked
Despite the recent release by Canada’s natural gas industry of a set of guiding principles governing the controversial gas well “stimulation” method known as hydraulic…
