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What’s Wrong With CETA? Plenty.
Trade deal with Europe threatens Canada’s municipalities The proposed Canada-Europe Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) is generating serious questions and concerns from local…
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The No-Nonsense Guide to Equality
Here’s book on equality lauded by Spirit Level co-author Book review: The No-Nonsense Guide to Equality, by Danny Dorling, published in Canada by New Internationalist…
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No Fairness For Temporary Workers
Employers still allowed to mistreat, underpay foreign “help” The Harper government’s April 26 announcement of yet another change to the deeply flawed Temporary Foreign Worker…
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Going… Going… Gone?
Slowly, stealthily, progressive state is being dismantled Most Canadians, according to one poll at least, did not much like the recent federal budget, but still…
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Austerity’s Discontents
Hennessy’s Index: A number is never just a number Hennessy’s Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy, about Canada…
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The Real Culture of Dependency: In Defense of Atlantic Canada
Co-authored with Brian Foster “Is the EI system making it more attractive to not work?” That’s the (attempt at) thought-provoking (or fire-stoking) title of a recent National…
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BC’s Election Act doesn’t just throttle the big spenders, it crushes the grassroots
The BC government wants you to shut up during the next election. That’s the message that emerges when you read between the lines of its…
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The Oil Industry’s Own Numbers Make the Case for Higher Royalties
Saskatchewan’s Minister of Energy and Resources replied to my op-ed and letter on Dutch disease and resource royalties. On Friday, he was promoted to Minister of Everything. Columnist Murray Mandryk wrote, “Given the amount…
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Seven reasons why you should support a move to low tuition fees for higher education
Much of the media coverage of the Quebec student protests has dismissed the protestors as cranky middle and upper-middle class children trying to protect their…
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