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ILO points to low union density and low minimum wages as causes of economic collapse
One more major international organization has published a report commenting on the damage done by growing inequality in society. In December the International Labour Organization…
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Our Schools/Our Selves: Winter 2011
Bright Ideas: Students and educators challenge limits on education This issue of Our Schools/Our Selves is about how students and educators are confronting and resisting…
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A Challenge to BC’s Leadership Candidates: Dare to Be Bold and to Tell Us the Truth
Some thoughts on what I’d love to hear in the current leadership contests: As a number of fundamental crises become more apparent (ecological and economic,…
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The IPP Lobby’s Top Ten
The Vancouver Sun’s Gordon Hamilton reports that the IPP lobby, BC Citizens for Green Energy, has released a Letterman-like top ten reasons for the development of…
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Canada’s best-paid CEOs ‘recession-proof’: Study
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. TORONTO – Canada’s best-paid 100 CEOs breezed through the worst of the recession with earnings 155 times higher than the…
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2011 Predictions
As we round out another decade, thoughts turn to the future. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ Hugh Mackenzie, Shauna Mackinnon, Bruce Campbell, Trish Hennessy,…
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Olympics – ‘Rousing Financial Success’?
Though not a true believer myself, I can think of a number of positive impacts from the 2010 Olympics. There was, without question, a community…
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Missing the Vote: Democratic Reform in BC
I’ve long thought that we should lower the voting age to 16, so thanks to Mike deJong for raising it in the BC Liberal leadership…
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