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  • The 10 Worst Corporate Lobbyists

    It’s big business to promote, defend big business interests Getting politicians to bend policy to your company’s will is a fine art. It requires a combination of charm, dogged persistence, threats – and bushels of cash. But corporate lobbyists know just which buttons to press in order to persuade politicians…

  • UN singles out BC Government on women’s rights

    BC is not meeting its obligations to women under international human rights law. That was the clear message of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women in comments issued last week in New York City-just in time for International Women’s Day (March 8). The UN Committee…

  • Oil companies crying all the way to the bank

    The oil industry in Canada is second to none, at least when it comes to spin. It makes the most creative of Canada’s political leaders look like amateurs. The latest and most audacious story being spun to Canadians is that the oil industry stands to be hurt by high oil…

  • The Middle East Revolution (Part III)

    The Empire strikes back: Libya attacked by the U.S. and NATO No sooner had the popular revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia overthrown corrupt and repressive U.S.-backed dictatorships than Washington and NATO (led by a Canadian general) attacked Libya on March 19 with jet fighters and hundreds of missiles and bombs.…

  • The Truth About Canada’s Afghan Training Mission

    By Michael Byers and Stewart Webb Last November, Canada’s mission in Afghanistan was extended by three years without a debate in Parliament when Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced that our soldiers would shift to a much safer training role. His explanation was that “when we’re talking simply about technical or training…

  • The truth about Canada’s Afghan training mission

    Last November, Canada’s mission in Afghanistan was extended by three years without a debate in Parliament when Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced that our soldiers would shift to a much safer training role. His explanation was that “when we’re talking simply about technical or training missions, I think that is…

  • The Harper Government’s Record on Medicare

    Canadian Medicare faces growing threats across the country. Many patients using private, for-profit clinics find themselves paying out of pocket for services covered by Medicare. Murial Schoof was required to pay more than $6,000 for sinus surgery at B.C.’s for-profit False Creek Surgery Centre. Court documents state that her physician…

  • The Middle East Revolution (Part 1)

    Uprisings a stunning blow to U.S. control of the Middle East “Fight like an Egyptian!” was the cry echoed by supporters of the Egyptian Revolution around the world when in 17 days the people of that country overthrew its 30-year-old dictatorship on February 11. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was forced…

  • Completing Tommy’s vision

    Medicare’s future Medicare represents one of our crowning national achievements, a proud reflection of how we see ourselves as a just and caring society. On this, National Medicare Week, it is important to revisit what Medicare is, how it came about, how it is threatened, and how to defend and…

  • Climate Justice Project
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    Look to Europe for Next Phase of BC’s Carbon Tax

    When it comes to good urban planning, transportation and taking action on climate change, Europe has a lot to teach us. BC took important baby steps with its Climate Action Plan of 2008. Three years later, however, baby is still clinging to the coffee table. The centrepiece of BC’s plan…

  • Conservative child-care plan comes at high price

    Balancing child care and employment has become a growing challenge for households. Families are increasingly dependent upon two incomes. In 2003, more than 75 per cent of two-parent households relied on dual incomes. The challenge for single parents is even more daunting as they seek to balance nurturing, homework and…

  • Why Governments Can Safely Ignore Hunger

    Corporate food charity keeps hunger off political agenda Over the past 30 years, Canadians have increasingly been led to believe that community compassion expressed through charitable food handouts is the most effective way of feeding our hungry poor and homeless. Since the establishment of the first food banks in the…