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Will a pro-oil president kill the oil sands?
About the authorHadrian Mertins-KirkwoodHadrian Mertins-Kirkwood (he/him) is a senior researcher and political economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. His work focuses on federal…
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Canadians no longer see red over prospect of higher taxes
Now that Canada is in the fiscal red, taxes appear to be coming back into fashion. A surprisingly broad swath of Canadians — and not…
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Income Taxes are a steal: Seth’s tax confessions
I just did my taxes this weekend, and I’m wracked with guilt. Personally, I’ve never found completing my taxes particularly onerous. It takes me a…
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Vancouver’s poverty rate leads country
Thanks to Jean Swanson for drawing to my attention a new report from the Federation of Canadian Municipalities called Mending Canada’s frayed social safety net:…
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Tax cuts don’t make up for BC’s low minimum wages
Responding to news of Ontario’s latest minimum wage increase (to $10.25 per hour), BC’s labour minister Murray Coell held firm on his government’s commitment to…
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A Very Canadian Coup
The top 10 ways that Canada aided the 2004 coup in Haiti and helped subject Haitians to a brutal reign of terror Things went from…
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The Latin American Revolution (V)
In Bolivia, under Morales, the revolution is indigenous Evo Morales, Bolivia’s indigenous President, started his second term in January by declaring colonialism dead in his…
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A Foolhardy Approach to Criminal Justice
Harper’s “tough-on-crime” bills costly, counterproductive The Harper government is reintroducing its proposed “tough-on-crime” laws that were killed when Harper prorogued Parliament in January. These crime…
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Coming Down from Mount Olympus
National pride, to endure, must have a strong foundation The tidal wave of patriotism unleashed by our country’s performance in the Olympics is subsiding, but…
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Alien Invasion
Toxic Asian carp invasion threatens the Great Lakes There’s something “fishy” going on in an environmental battle that has pitted the state of Illinois and…
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BC’s minimum wage is now 22% lower than Ontario’s
Today, thousands of low wage workers in Ontario are getting a raise of 75 cent per hour, as the province’s minimum wage goes up to…
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Keeping emissions underground
I was intrigued by a quote in a recent Globe Foundation report on BC’s green economy that BC has 1000 trillion cubic feet of natural…
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In defense of the stimulus
Earlier this week, the Fraser Institute published a controversial report which argued that the government stimulus did not do much for economic growth in the…
