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  • The Latin American Revolution (Part VI)

    Public health care planned for all of Latin America [Editor’s Note: The first half of this article, which is about Latin American integration, was published in the June Monitor. It dealt with the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), the Bank of the South, and PetroAmerica, the petroleum company of…

  • Resource Economics Project (BC)

    Securing a Sustainable Future for BC’s Forest Communities

    Speech to the Stand Up for the North Conference Download 204.26 KB10 pages Excerpt: “Before talking a bit about where the opportunities lie to strengthen the hands of resource-dependent communities through forest policy changes, I thought it would be instructive to look at two events that occurred in and around…

  • Research for Communities #7

    Safety and Security Issues in Winnipeg’s Inner-City Communities: Bridging the Community-Police Divide Download 182.24 KB4 pages

  • The Latin American Revolution (Part VI)

    Countries in Latin America move to regional integration “The people have risen like a great Lazarus… so let’s hurry with our unity, to speed up the changes that have already been on their way: the Bank of the South, the unity of our oil and energy companies, the social programs,…

  • The Importance of Bill C-474

    Our farms need to be saved from genetically modified crops With the release of its National Food Policy on April 26, the federal Liberal Party is hoping to make agriculture a key election issue. Courting the rural vote with the “Rural Canada Matters” policy document, Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff announced,…

  • Climate Justice Project

    BC’s reforestation crisis

    In less than a decade, British Columbia has gone from environmental leader to environmental laggard in stewarding one of our most important natural resources. And it could not come at a worse time, as we grapple with climate change and its horrendous impact on our forests. In what was once…

  • Climate Justice Project

    Richest 20% of BC households have biggest carbon footprint

    GHG emissions reduction policies will be more successful if geared to income: study READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. (Vancouver) The richest 20% of BC income earners are responsible for almost double the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of those in the lowest income group, according to a new Climate Justice Project…

  • Growing Gap

    Income gap for Aboriginal peoples stubbornly high: Report

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA – Income inequality between Aboriginal peoples and the rest of Canadians is stubbornly high, says a groundbreaking new study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). For every dollar non-Aboriginals earned in 2006, Aboriginal peoples earned only 70 cents – a…

  • The Latin American Revolution (V)

    In Bolivia, under Morales, the revolution is indigenous Evo Morales, Bolivia’s indigenous President, started his second term in January by declaring colonialism dead in his country. Morales emphasized that he has attempted to “eradicate all vestiges of colonial repression and discrimination against Bolivia’s indigenous majority.” He certainly has, which is…

  • Economic Security Project (BC)

    BC needs comprehensive mental health strategy with focus on income, housing and employment supports: Professor

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Vancouver – An Assistant Professor of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University is calling on the provincial government to re-think its approach to mental health care. “In recent years, we’ve seen cuts to a host of social services and changes to mental health care,” says…

  • Canada’s Afghanistan “mission” cripples democracy at home

    Stephen Harper’s Conservative government shut down Parliament until March, mainly to avoid answering politically embarrassing questions about the torture of Canadian military detainees in Afghanistan. Especially disturbing are the allegations – and mounting evidence — that our military was complicit in this torture of captives by Afghan government “interrogators.” The…

  • “Where’s the money coming from?

    The money needed to “fix” Medicare can easily be found Of all the many questions raised by the Romanow Report, the one most often asked is “Where’s the money coming from?”–and it’s the one question that should not be asked at all. The money needed to “fix” Medicare–whether it’s the…