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  • Alien Invasion

    Toxic Asian carp invasion threatens the Great Lakes There’s something “fishy” going on in an environmental battle that has pitted the state of Illinois and its favourite son, former Senator Barack Obama, against the rest of the Great Lakes region, including the province of Ontario. The White House’s “Asian Carp…

  • Is globalization losing momentum?

    Canadians have been told for years by politicians and business leaders that we have no choice but to adjust to the dictates of economic globalization. In Canada, this has been used to push for closer integration with the U.S., a less active government, and the abandonment of a social agenda.…

  • June 2005: A Very Nasty Piece of Legislation

    Bill C-28, if passed, will expose food supply to more carcinogens With all eyes on the Gomery Inquiry, the Martin government was trying before an election was called to sneak a very nasty piece of legislation through Parliament. Bill C-28, an Act to Amend the Food and Drugs Act, would…

  • Waste-to-energy incineration is both noxious and expensive

    At the “Waste-Based-Energy” industry conference in Toronto last November, the tony Yorkville hotel meeting room was filled with consultants, lawyers, company reps, and municipal bureaucrats, all talking trash: waste tonnage spread-sheets, the seeming evils of landfill sites, the supreme benefits of burning municipal solid waste (MSW) to make energy. There…

  • Scandal, politics and democracy

    At one level the current parliamentary furor is partisan politics at its worst.  Stephen Harper is taking advantage of the scandal to boost the fortunes of the Conservatives while Paul Martin clings to power by promoting a budget not of the Liberals own making.  These theatrics in Ottawa are diverting…

  • May 2005: The U.S. in the New Economic World Order

    U.S. can’t keep relying on other countries to pay for its imperial excesses Empires collapse usually due to a combination of military overreach and economic weakness, and, judged by these criteria, the U.S. imperial order seems headed for an imminent fall. Washington’s occupation of Iraq has been a disaster. Even…

  • New CCPA report makes the case against more corporate tax cuts

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—Despite outraged business and media reaction to the NDP’s demand for rescinding a new round of corporate tax cuts in return for supporting the Liberal government’s 2005 Budget, a strong case can be made that further reductions in corporate taxes are unjustified. In…

  • Nova Scotia Alternative Budget

    NS budget must put people first

    The Hamm government releases its provincial budget today.  The finance minister has already told us that it will be balanced.  But this is not a particularly difficult task given increasing federal transfers and own-source revenue.  The real challenge for the minister is how well he addresses the social and infrastructure…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    Time to draw a line in the sand on the softwood lumber dispute—report

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—It’s time to play hardball with the US Administration on the long-running softwood lumber dispute, says a report released today by the CCPA. The report, entitled Time to Draw a Line in the Sand: NAFTA and the Softwood Lumber Dispute by CCPA Executive…

  • Municipal taxation needs reforming

    Tax increases are always controversial, but this year some Nova Scotians are particularly cranky about paying taxes and for good reason. I’m not talking about the predictable ideological clamouring for income tax cuts.  What has really got some taxpayers angry this year is the increase in municipal taxes due to…

  • Minimum wage workers need a real raise

    How much should the minimum wage increase? This is the question being considered by a committee reporting to the Minister of Environment and Labour.  To most of us the need for a substantial raise in the rate is obvious – it not only puts money in the pockets of Nova…

  • New opportunities for Nova Scotia

    The provincial government finds itself facing a better financial position than it has in more than a decade.  The Auditor General has pegged the forecast budget surplus for 2004-2005 at $72 million and the province appears to have reached an agreement on off-   shore oil and gas.  With the debt…