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  • Fast Facts: The Two Faces of Government Policy Towards Local Food

    Small farm owners Pam and Clint Cavers were blindsided on August 28, 2013 when Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives (MAFRI) staff showed up to “seize and destroy” their locally produced and cured prosciutto (pork). Ironically, just months ago, MAFRI presented the Cavers with $10,000, naming their prosciutto the “Best…

  • Throwing STC Under the Bus

    There are several compelling questions raised by government’s recent decision to wind down the Saskatchewan Transportation Company. For the most deeply affected, the questions are along the lines of How am I going to get to my cancer treatments now? But even those of us not directly impacted by the…

  • The staggering future costs of the BC government’s contracts

    As usual, there has been quite a hubbub surrounding this week’s release of British Columbia’s Public Accounts.  The provincial auditor says the provincial deficit is $520 million more than the government admits. And then there is the Auditor General’s review of finances at the legislature that found “substantial irregularities.” But…

  • DIDG Licensed: Little Saskatchewan River Unprotected

    On the day the Fast Facts titled Will the Province Protect the Little Saskatchewan River was published (July 5, 2012), the Daly Irrigation Development Group (DIDG) was granted Environment Act license No. 3010. Two days earlier a formal request, specifying numerous concerns, had been made of Gord Macintosh, Minister of Conservation…

  • Lowering Our Standards

    The right-wing Fraser Institute has released a paper that, if implemented, would dramatically lower our standards for worker pay, workers’ rights and workplace protections. It urges governments in Ontario and B.C. to adopt American-style “right-to-work” (RTW) laws which violate a core principle upheld in Canadian law: if a majority of…

  • 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” (BMD) weapons program. Unfortunately, BMD is still very much alive and well and thriving in Canada. In fact, Canada has been complicit in BMD for…

  • Education Project

    Our Schools/Our Selves: Summer 2013

    Creative License: Education, Social Justice and the Arts From teaching dance to elementary school students, to using poetry about conflict in the Middle East to facilitate a classroom discussion about difference and acceptance, the arts provide students with opportunities to engage more deeply with their learning process(es), expose injustice, and…

  • Business lobby cries wolf over Manitoba’s labour law changes

    Opposition to Bill 44’s proposed changes to labour legislation, led by a handful of business lobbyists and echoed by Free Press editorials, takes two main lines: that the legislation will harm the province by driving business away, and that it is basically undemocratic. Even given the hostility to labour typically…

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    Seven immediate steps to reduce poverty while the government consults on a comprehensive poverty reduction plan

    Earlier this week, the BC government appointed an Advisory Forum on Poverty Reduction to provide expertise and assistance to the Minster of Social Development and Poverty Reduction in the development of a comprehensive poverty reduction strategy for BC. The 27 people named to the Forum represent communities across the province…

  • Report points to “gaping hole” in BC’s system of human rights protection

    Researchers call for an independent Human Rights Commission as BC fails to meet Canadian and international standards READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Vancouver—Today is International Human Rights Day. But what does that mean here in BC, the only province in Canada without a human rights commission? A new report published…

  • Education Project

    Our Schools/Our Selves: Spring 2013

    Re:Generations: A primer for all ages This issue of Our Schools/Our Selves, co-edited with Lyndsay Poaps and Kevin Millsip, represents a departure from our usual format(s). It’s structured as a sort of an “issue within an issue,” and is focused—specifically and more generally—on working together across generations for progressive change.…

  • Alternative Federal Budget

    Alternative Federal Budget 2012

    On March 15th, 2012, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives held a press conference to release its flagship report—the Alternative Federal Budget 2012: A Budget for the Rest of Us. This year’s Alternative Budget puts forward a public investment plan that promotes a better quality of life for all Canadians,…