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Canada’s next federal budget needs to tackle cost-of-living
The winter weather is moderating in Canada, which can only mean one thing: Federal budget season is coming. The April 16 release coincides with multiple…
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Softwood deal will spur more raw log exports
The recent vote in the House of Commons ratifying the softwood lumber agreement with the United States may bring temporary relief in Canada’s long running…
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Why the Conservatives are cutting spending now
Suffering from fiscal whiplash? First the Harper government tells us the 2005/06 surplus is $13.2 billion. Then on the same day, it announces large spending…
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Corporate-think co-opting co-ops?
Co-op Week, which runs Oct. 15-21, provides us with an opportunity to reflect on the role of co-operatives in our communities. Many Nova Scotians are…
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Turning Point?
Time to Renovate Ontario’s Education Funding Formula Download 310.86 KB34 pages
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Not all school boards benefiting from increased spending—report
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT TORONTO—A report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives finds that, despite the province’s $600 million…
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Canada-first energy strategy needed
On March 8, Premier Ralph Klein made a remarkable and admirable pledge. “If we see oil drying up and we see the Alberta supply being…
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October 2006: The Corporate Frankenstein Monster
Plundering, pillaging, and polluting the planet for profit Earlier this year, I wrote a three-part series under the overall theme I called “the Big Business…
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October 2006: The New Economic World Order (Part III: India)
India rapidly re-emerging as a global economic power The Asian century has arrived. Just as China is now the world’s manufacturing center, India is fast…
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October 2006: Not What Ontarians Voted For
McGuinty’s electricity privatization deal is shocking Imagine you are buying a new house that is so expensive your kids will get stuck with paying off…
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October 2006: We Didn’t Really Say “No” to Missile Defence
Canadian complicity and participation in BMD continues Contrary to a widely popular feel-good myth, Canada did not reject participation in the U.S.-led “Ballistic Missile Defence”…
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October 2006: Workers Unprotected
Our gov’ts refuse to see labour rights as human rights Almost everyone in Canada now understands, and more or less accepts, the notion of human…
