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  • From monster deficits to monster surpluses: What happened?

    The recent announcement by Finance Minister Gary Collins that BC is now expected to post a $1.2 billion surplus in 2004/05 caught many by surprise. After all, it was only seven months ago that Minister Collins tabled his first balanced budget, after sky-high deficits the previous three years. What explains…

  • September 2004: Drug Trafficking In Afghanistan

    U.S. sets up and supports the world’s No.1 “narco” state The close link between U.S. military and covert intervention and drug trafficking continues in Afghanistan today. When it invaded and occupied the country in October 2001, Washington replaced the ruling Taliban with President Hamid Karzai and the Northern Alliance, a…

  • Dangerous Skies

    Sometime in the next few weeks, Prime Minister Paul Martin may ignore public opinion and commit Canada to participate in the Bush administration’s plans to militarize the heavens. The U.S. claims that a Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system is needed to protect this hemisphere from nuclear attacks from countries like…

  • July 2004: Enbridge Spreads Disaster in Columbia

    In the December 2000/January 2001 Monitor, I reported that Enbridge Inc., one of Canada’s leading energy corporations, was linked to death squads in Colombia according to information provided by Amnesty International. Below, I examine the impact of this revelation in Canada as well as detail the further damage caused in…

  • Workers comp improvements badly needed

    Injured workers bore burden of changes made during ’90s CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT Winnipeg — Manitoba’s Workers Compensation Act leaves thousands of injured workers without adequate compensation, or with no compensation at all. And the rate-setting policy adopted by the Workers Compensation Board during the 1990s violates…

  • June 2004: Corporate “Sick Shops”

    P3 hospitals are bad for patients, for care-givers, and taxpayers Health care corporations push whenever they can for privatized health care, and the focus of their latest efforts are “private-public-partnership” (P3) hospitals. Currently, as many as 15 P3 hospitals are at various stages of pushing into Canada. Private corporations behind…

  • Can they pay for what they say?

    Adding up the cost of the political parties’ election promises Promises, promises – it’s election time again. But can the three major national parties pay for what they are promising in their electoral platforms? We decided to do a little arithmetic to ascertain whether each party can pay for what…

  • May 2004: Iraqis Getting a Raw Deal on Debt

    Iraq’s huge odious debts must be eliminated, not merely “rescheduled” During the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last January, Prime Minister Paul Martin announced that Canada would write off “the vast majority” of the C$750 million Iraq owes to federal agencies. Media reports implied that this debt reduction would…

  • March 2004: Tackling Our Worst Drug Addiction

    Big Pharma’s hold on our health care system must be broken Parliament’s Standing Committee on Health has identified many important and disturbing issues related to prescription drugs in Canada, including the rising costs, the review and control of prices, the approval of new drugs, the monitoring of adverse effects and…

  • Resource Economics Project (BC)

    BC’s incredible shrinking Environment Minister

    Joyce Murray — BC’s Minister of the “Environment” (formally Water, Land and Air Protection) — does not seem to wield a whole lot of power in the BC cabinet room. And her presence in Victoria appears to be shrinking day-by-day. Just recently, Ms. Murray was seen standing in the legislature…

  • May 2003: West Paupans Oppressed by U.S. Multinational

    An interview with John Rumbiak John Rumbiak is a supervisor for West Papua Institute for Human Rights Study and Advocacy (ELSHAM) based in Jayapura, the capital of West Papua province in Indonesia. He toured Canada in November 2002 to promote awareness of the oppression and exploitation of the Papuan people…

  • Public Interest Research Project (BC)
    Seniors Care

    Society’s most vulnerable denied needed care

    Groundbreaking new study exposes the impact of federal and BC cuts to community-based health care CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) The BC Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives co-published a major new study today. Without Foundation: How Medicare is Undermined by Gaps and Privatization in…