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Public sector workers are leading a big uptick in strikes in Canada
. About the authorRyan RomardRyan Romard (He/Him) is a sociologist, research analyst, and data science enthusiast. Ryan has several years of experience conducting survey research…
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BC hearts Art. But only for the show off.
The pedestrian stretch of Granville Street downtown has been brightened lately by a colourful display of public art projects, complete with benches for pedestrians to…
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Corporations are people too
Advocates of democratic electoral reform are really out of step. Ideas like proportional representation and advertising spending limits are so retro, so 2004. The fashionable…
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Our Schools/Our Selves: Winter 2010
The Achievement Agenda: Education or Evaluation? A struggle dominates education these days. It is a struggle between demands for standardization and the reality of diversity.…
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Waste-to-energy incineration is both noxious and expensive
At the “Waste-Based-Energy” industry conference in Toronto last November, the tony Yorkville hotel meeting room was filled with consultants, lawyers, company reps, and municipal bureaucrats,…
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Taxes and Public Services
Debate over taxes dangerously one-sided and misleading Politics is about choices. But we can’t make effective choices without clarity. And that means we have to…
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Private Gain or Public Interest?
Canadians should benefit fairly from oil and gas they own Canada’s oil and gas industry can and should be converted to a public-interest industry whose…
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Equality is the Core Value of Democracy
Stop backsliding, put Canada back on road to equality There has never been a better time in recent history when the core democratic value of…
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Canada’s Afghanistan “mission” cripples democracy at home
Stephen Harper’s Conservative government shut down Parliament until March, mainly to avoid answering politically embarrassing questions about the torture of Canadian military detainees in Afghanistan.…
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Youth Voices: Supporting refugee youth through through community connections
I recently finished my Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Winnipeg in Politics and International Development Studies, which included a practicum placement with…
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Youth Voices: Poverty and the alternatives uses of shopping carts
Last summer, Gabrielle Giroday wrote an article for the Winnipeg Free Press called “Stores can’t stop carts vanishing: Shoppers wheeling thousands away.” This article raised…
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“Living assets” are key in the fight against climate change
In the fight against climate change, few natural assets are as important as forests. Healthy living trees store enormous amounts of atmospheric carbon. The same is…
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First the party, then the hangover
The 2010 Winter Games are almost upon us. In Vancouver, banners are dropping down the sides of downtown buildings; huge tents are being erected anywhere…
