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  • 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…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    CETA: A Bad Trade for Women

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  • Pining for some straight talk

    BC Forests Minister Pat Bell grabbed plenty of headlines this week when he said that the threats posed to resource communities by the mountain pine beetle infestation may be overstated. Stories about a rapid deterioration in the quality of trees attacked by the beetles, Bell suggested, are wrong. In fact,…

  • 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…

  • Work Life: Terminally ill professor pleads for asbestos ban

    University of Manitoba professor Patricia Martens has one more mission as an epidemiologist as she confronts her final days with a terminal disease. She wants the government to stop aiding and abetting the lethal trade in asbestos. Martens is a prominent and distinguished research scientist in the university’s faculty of…

  • Self-employed workers deserve social benefits

    In Canada, about 2.5 million people (approximately 15 per cent of the labour force) are classified as “self-employed.” Nova Scotia has about 31,000 (12 per cent.) Trend lines show the proportion of such workers has risen steadily in the past three decades, with some spikes in bad economic times. It’s…

  • 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)

    Evidence shows public-private partnerships not a solution, experts

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) A panel of experts from Britain, the U.S. and Canada on “public-private partnerships” (P3’s) say that British Columbia should think twice before adopting the P3 model. Three of the four panelists, who were brought to Vancouver to speak at a public forum…

  • 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…

  • March 2003: Lula Bows to Wall Street

    Brazil’s new “leftist” President moves right to keep U.S. happy Forty years after Brazil’s last leftist government was overthrown in a U.S.-backed military coup, the left appeared to have regained power there on January 1 when Luiz Inacio (“Lula”) da Silva, the candidate for the left-leaning Workers’ Party (PT), was…

  • March 2008: The Dark Side of TILMA

    B.C.-Alberta pact feeds myth of provincial trade barriers Talk about extraordinary: A public policy debate has broken out over an issue that normally wouldn’t even warrant discussion. For well over a year, an enormous public relations effort has been aimed at convincing Canadians, and their provincial governments, that Canada faces…