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  • A Not-So-Crazy Conspiracy Theory

    If this crisis doesn’t discredit capitalism, what will? There’s this cartoon about two cows. The first cow has just figured out, to her horror and shock, how hamburgers are made.      “They only fatten us up,” she says, “so they can slaughter and eat us.”      The second cow scoffs…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    The false hopes and empty promises of investment treaty modernization

    A Canadian company’s successful challenge to a precautionary mining ban in Colombia shows how little investor–state dispute panels care about the right to regulate.

    A Canadian company’s successful challenge to a precautionary mining ban in Colombia shows how little investor–state dispute panels care about the right to regulate.

  • The sound of silence

    Weeks stretch to months, months to years as BC government clamps down on information  When debate on the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Amendment Act began last fall Stephanie Cadieux, then Liberal MLA for Surrey-Cloverdale, was among many to note how British Columbians are waiting longer and longer…

  • Canada’s GST tax holiday won’t do much for affordability

    If the feds were serious about affordability, there’s lots of other things they could be doing.

    The following article is based on speaking notes from a presentation which the author gave to the Senate Committee on National Finance. The video of the presentation is at the bottom of the page.

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    Getting to Net-Zero in Canada: Summary

    Scale of the problem, government projections and daunting challenges The urgency of mitigating climate change through significant emission reductions is globally recognized—most recently with the call to transition away from fossil fuels at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP28). Canada has long accepted…

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    The federal government’s coming “red tape review” is bad news

    History shows us that”red tape reduction” ends up making us less safe

    At the beginning of July, Shafqat Ali, president of Canada’s Treasury Board, announced the launch of a “red tape review” of regulations across federal departments and agencies with regulatory responsibilities, with a reporting deadline of the beginning of September in advance of the federal budget.

  • Tuition hike and the media between 2005 and 2010 in Québec

    I’ve contended for the last two years that between 2005 and 2010, an intensive public relations campaign was undertaken with the aim of increasing tuition fees in Québec. I believe it was crucial when the proposal to hike fees was formally submitted in Raymond Bachand’s first budget, the Liberal government’s…

  • Une vache grasse pour le secteur commercial : la création des nouvelles places en services de garde à l’enfance

    Le programme pancanadien de services de garde à 10 $ par jour ne crée pas un nombre suffisant de places et ne s’assure pas que ces places demeurent à but non lucrati

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    Addressing the racism of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program

    There is renewed attention on Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) in the wake of the recent damning report from the UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery that calls the program “a breeding ground for contemporary forms of slavery.” Yet, the central critiques and recommendations made in the…

  • Labour Matters

    The Monitor, May/June 2023

    The Labour Issue: Rebuilding the working class Download 3.85 MB Browse the latest edition of The Monitor online here On International Workers’ Day, we celebrate the power of workers—together, we have the power to fundamentally transform the economy. That’s why this issue of the Monitor focuses on labour power. In…

  • Fast Facts – Grain, Trains and Autocrats: farmers pay the price of dismantling the Wheat Board

    This was originally published in the Winnipeg Free Press on April 15, 2014 A banner 2013 crop year and some rail delays due to cold weather don’t account for all our grain transportation woes. Coordination of rail to ships is out of synch: a study by Quoram Corporation found that…

  • The enormous cost of public-private partnerships

    Three recent BC public private partnership (P3) hospitals developed in co-operation with the province’s Partnerships BC (PBC) will cost the public $260 million more than traditionally delivered projects, according to figures released in July in response to a Freedom of Information request.1 [perfectpullquote align=”right” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]The three…