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  • Getting the Balance Right

    Fair Taxation Means Better Education, Better Health and Less Poverty CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT Despite well-publicized spending commitments and a robust provincial economy, not all Saskatchewan people are benefiting and many people have been hurt by the government’s failure to adequately fund public services, according to the…

  • Study finds BC’s welfare system denying assistance to people in need, ‘diverting’ many to homelessness and hardship

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) A major study released today finds that BC’s welfare system is systematically discouraging, delaying and denying assistance to many of the people most in need of help, with harmful consequences for some of the province’s most vulnerable residents. “Denied Assistance: Closing the…

  • Will Nova Scotia Greens be up to green challenge?

    Does Nova Scotia need a new political party? Some environmentalists think so. A founding convention for a Nova Scotia Green Party was recently held. Participants agreed to an organizational structure and selected a leader, Nicholas Wright, a business and law student in Halifax. There is no question that environmental issues…

  • New Economy Initiative (MB)

    Aboriginal Involvement in Community Development

    The Case of Winnipeg’s Spence Neighbourhood Download 574.27 KB40 pages

  • March 2006: Empty Promises, Dashed Hopes

    10 years after Beijing conference, women are still waiting In the plenary session of the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing more than 10 years ago, this proclamation was made by the Tanzanian chairperson, Gertrude Mongella: “A revolution has begun! There is no turning back!” All the delegates from…

  • February 2006: Your Pension Contributions at Work

    CPP is investing in bombs, tobacco, and corporate criminals We Canadians like to think that we play a benevolent role in the world as humanitarians and peacemakers. But is this impression always accurate? One place that reveals another side of Canada is the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB). The…

  • February 2006: “Soft” Fascism is Getting Harder

    U.S. use of torture and chemical weapons are war crimes Given the now indisputable U.S. practice of torturing prisoners of war, the “soft” fascism term I applied to the Bush administration a few months ago has become harder. The widespread American use of torture, both in physically and mentally abusing…

  • Electoral turnout and turnoff

    Another federal election is over and the House of Commons appears to reflect what on the surface many voters wanted – an end to 14 years of Liberal rule, and a tight reign on the new Conservative government. But the campaign and the composition of the federal legislature once again…

  • Why minority government is good for Canada

    Is minority government good for Canada? Former Conservative pollster Allan Gregg would have us believe in his Strategic Counsel poll this week that 55% of Canadians (and 64% of Quebecers) think a Harper majority would be good for the country. One wonders what Canadians’ response would have been if the…

  • Public solutions to health care wait lists

    Waits for care are the biggest political issue facing Canadian health care—a priority reflected in the accord reached by the federal and provincial health ministers a few days ago. They agreed to set limits on wait times for major surgeries and treatments, but conceded that these limits would be targets…

  • November 2003: Rural Communities Under Attack

    North American agriculture is in the midst of a “great transition” that is fundamentally transforming rural areas. Agriculture as we have known it, with family farms and viable rural communities, is being rapidly transformed into an industrial agriculture, with factory farms and dying rural communities.

  • Economic Security Project (BC)

    Turning a blind eye to employers who break the law doesn’t solve the problem

    Imagine if one day our police forces were cut in half, street patrols were eliminated, police stations closed, and people were told to send a lengthy form to police headquarters to report a crime. Doesn’t sound like such a great idea? Unfortunately, it’s pretty much what the BC government has…