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An inclusive farm economy is the antidote to corporate concentration
Corporate concentration and the exercise of corporate power in the Canadian food system materially limits how farmers, food service workers, and consumers can participate in…
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On the economic impacts of the HST
My previous HST post focused on the impact of the tax on households and I concluded that it’s likely that it will cost families and…
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Statistics Canada’s Senseless Census Decision
Open letter to the Honourable Tony Clement, Ministry of Industry and Minister Responsible for Statistics Canada and Munir Sheikh, Chief Statistician, Statistics Canada June 30,…
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Our Schools/Our Selves: Summer 2010
The School as Community Hub: Beyond Education’s Iron Cage The summer issue of Our Schools/Our Selves, the third in the “Iron Cage” series, is edited…
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The “Unsustainability Myth”
Don’t believe claims Medicare is becoming unaffordable Total health care spending in Canada has been rising in recent years, taking larger shares of government revenues…
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Looking on the Bright Side
There’s still good reason not to become a pessimist You may have missed the news about a recent study by the Mayo Clinic on optimism…
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The Latin American Revolution (Part VI)
Public health care planned for all of Latin America [Editor’s Note: The first half of this article, which is about Latin American integration, was published…
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Democratic Media Reform in Canada
Campaigns, coalitions aim to democratize media system Faced with a corporate-dominated mediascape and perceived editorial indifference or hostility, trade unions and other progressive Canadian organizations…
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British Medical Journal links social spending cuts to increased mortality
An article and an editorial in this week’s British Medical Journal outline the very high cost of cutting social programs. The article’s authors look at…
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The HST and BC family budgets
That the HST will take a bite out of family budgets is clear to everyone. The main question right now is just how big of…
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Un-equal access to opportunity between suburban and inner-city youth
Three weeks ago, a 19-year-old from Winnipeg’s inner city shot two teenagers. Our city government’s response was to send in more police officers. But incarceration…
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Contagion and Collateral Damage
The Aftershocks of Global Financial Crisis Just when the world economy appeared to be settling down, Greece — that cradle of civilization, the birthplace of…
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Faux News North?
It now seems a certainty that we will soon have our very own “Fox News North” cable channel as Quebecor is poised to launch “SUN…
