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  • What goes up must come down: Budget cuts make BC communities more economically vulnerable

    BC’s economy is a lot like a rollercoaster ride. Commodity prices for our resource exports (like energy, forest and mining products) go up and down over the years, and our economic fortunes lurch along for the ride. This is especially true in BC’s “heartlands”. While the current economic upswing masks…

  • Education Project

    Our Schools/Our Selves: Fall 2012

    Ne Lâche Pas! Striking shifts in education and community activism This issue of Our Schools/Our Selves is about the links between education and activism, but it focuses extensively on issues raised before, during and since the student strike. Some of the articles were written before the electoral defeat of Charest’s…

  • Getting it Wrong For Seniors in British Columbia

    Seniors and their families need and should have access to useful information when they are making critical decisions about residential care and throughout the period of residence in facilities. — BC Ombudsperson, The Best of Care: Getting It Right for Seniors in British Columbia (Part 1) Mass replacement of staff can…

  • Fast Facts: It’s getting great

    Government investment in social housing Over the last few years, the Province of Manitoba has invested millions of dollars in renovating and providing resources in two public housing complexes in Winnipeg, Gilbert Park and Lord Selkirk Park. These investments have re-energized the two communities, and are making a positive difference…

  • BC poverty rates highest in Canada, again

    Statistics Canada released a report today on incomes across Canada in 2009. As First Call BC points out in their news release, key points for BC include: BC’s child poverty rate rose to 12 percent in 2009, the highest child poverty rate of any province for the eighth year in…

  • October 2005: The New Economic World Order (Part II: China)

    Amazingly rapid economic growth has made China “world’s workshop” China’s economic ascent over the last two-and-a-half decades has been nothing short of astounding. It now has the fastest-growing large economy in the world, having increased by an amazing 9% a year since 1979, a historical record. As one U.S. newspaper…

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    Community Economic Development in Manitoba

    Theory, History, Policy and Practice Download 987.76 KB44 pages Community Economic Development (CED) in Manitoba is ever changing, morphing and evolving. This paper on the other hand is not. These pages contain the history and practice of CED leading up to, and including the summer of 2017. This paper was…

  • BC’s workers need a human rights commission

    Let me explain BC’s strategy for addressing discrimination. First, we ask someone to experience it. Then we ask that person to understand a complex area of law, investigate the facts and engage in a legal proceeding against their employer / landlord / service provider to enforce their rights. We ask…

  • Education Project

    Our Schools/Our Selves: Summer 2012

    Smashing the Stereotypes: Challenging race and gender in the classroom The latest issue of Our Schools/Our Selves, Smashing the Stereotypes, examines the ways in which stereotypes (such as gender and race) limit debate, and how educators and academics are challenging these constraints. Contributors to this issue include Ozlem Sensoy, David Stocker and Tim…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    Trade committee hears big risks outweigh small rewards in TPP

    I appeared yesterday at the parliamentary committee on international trade alongside Hassan Yussuff and Angella MacEwan (Canadian Labour Congress), Gus Van Harten (who just released a report for the CCPA on investor-state dispute settlement), and Victoria Owen and Susan Haigh of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries. For once, at least, the critical…

  • Industry Gas Price Attack Backfires

    As we get closer to the election and as it becomes apparent that the result will be one that no-one expected with it was called just weeks ago, the attacks from Steven Harper’s supporters in Canada’s business elite are beginning to mount.One of the latest is the claim from University…

  • Impasse between Winnipeg and Province calls for bold action

    In recent months there have been demands from many quarters that the Manitoba government increase the provincial sales tax by one per cent and turn over the roughly $265 million in proceeds to local governments for infrastructure projects. The City of Winnipeg’s position is that it has a massive infrastructure…