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  • December 2004: Medicare Still on Life-Support

    Health accord flawed by poor accountability and enforcement The health care accord reached last September by the federal, provincial, and territorial first ministers is a better deal than those signed in 2000 and 2003, but suffers from the same flaws: poor accountability, reporting, and enforcement. Despite this agreement, Medicare is…

  • When Bush comes to town

    John Hamm has asked us to welcome George Bush in a Nova Scotian manner.  But being polite is frankly going to be difficult and it is not in our best interests. For the most part Bush has himself to blame for the less than warm reception he has been receiving…

  • Nova Scotia fares poorly among Atlantic neighbours on measures of child poverty

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT HALIFAX:  A report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives assesses progress on several measures of child poverty and finds that Nova Scotia performed fared most poorly among the four Atlantic Provinces. Authors Pauline Raven and Lesley Frank used the most…

  • Public Interest Research Project (BC)

    Seats vs. money

    The post-secondary financing dilemma Earlier this year, the provincial government announced a major expansion of post-secondary education in BC—the creation of 25,000 new college and university seats between now and 2010. This is good news, something education advocates had been seeking. But before we hand out top marks to the…

  • Eroding Equalization

    The issue of equalization has raised its barely comprehensible head once more. But just because it is complicated doesn’t mean it’s not important. So here is my attempt to shed light on the issue. The Federal equalization transfers are intended to ensure that Canadians receive a similar level of public…

  • Seven-day shopping won’t cure what ails us

    Nova Scotians are having a plebiscite on Sunday shopping and debate on the issue is in full swing. The proponents of Sunday shopping have portrayed it as a simple matter of providing choice to businesses and shoppers. In fact 7- day-a-week shopping will have an impact on all of us…

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    BC’s social housing shell game

    It seems barely a day goes by without a news story about BC’s hot real estate market and booming residential construction. People are buying up homes faster than you can say interest rate hike, and as prices rise, home ownership is becoming more expensive — and elusive — for many…

  • 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…

  • 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…