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Our Schools/Our Selves: Winter 2009
Sex Ed and Youth: Colonization, sexuality and communities of colour This issue of OS/OS unravels the seemingly impenetrable and often unquestioned connections between youth, sex…
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Real Change? Or Business as Usual?
New “New Deal” is unlikely to come from Obama presidency When the U.S. Treasury last October lavished $700 billion on Wall Street banks with no…
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Putting the public interest first (Part 2)
Corporations can and should be made socially responsible Read Part 1 What benefits could a government expect by amending corporate charters to include the public…
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Putting the public interest first (Part 1)
Corporations can and should be made socially responsible Corporations are different from other business entities because they attract capital investment by socializing a portion of…
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Path of Destruction
Canadian mining companies on rampage around the world Canada is the world’s leading mining nation. Sixty per cent of all public mining companies are listed…
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An Open Letter to Margaret Wente
We need to think more analytically about harm reduction This is an updated form of a letter I sent to Globe & Mail columnist Margaret…
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Open for Business?
What’s wrong with corporatizing our universities? Plenty! A serious problem for progressive people nowadays is that neoliberal discourse has become so established, so commonsensical, that…
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Chaoulli II?
So private surgical clinics, led by Brian Day, are suing the BC government so they can charge patients for services that they, the patients, already…
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The utter stupidity of P3s in BC
For the “we told you so” file. The BC government has been insisting on P3s (so-called “public-private partnerships” where the private sector builds and operates…
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