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Financial Inclusion and Manitoba Indigenous People
Results from an Urban and Rural Case Study Download 1.29 MB54 pages This research project used a case study approach to examine access to mainstream Financial Institution (FI)1 services in one rural First Nation community and among Indigenous People in inner city Winnipeg. By case study we mean that through…
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To address health inequalities, look beyond the role of individual responsibility
A new report by the Canadian Medical Association provides a timely reminder that money buys better health, even in a country with a universal public healthcare system. A poll commissioned by the CMA found a large and increasing gap between the health status of Canadians in lower income groups (household…
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UN singles out BC Government on women’s rights
BC is not meeting its obligations to women under international human rights law. That was the clear message of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women in comments issued last week in New York City-just in time for International Women’s Day (March 8). The UN Committee…
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Why corporate power is a problem at the climate crossroads
By Shannon Daub and Bill Carroll As world leaders head to Paris for next week’s UN climate conference, the spotlight is being turned on the fossil fuel industry’s tremendous economic and political clout. The COP21 talks are sponsored by some decidedly climate-unfriendly multinationals, prompting the watchdog group Corporate Accountability International…
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We’re putting fossil fuel industry influence under the microscope
By Bill Carroll and Shannon Daub The tremendous concentration of power and influence we see in the fossil fuel industry today places sharp limits on our democracy (for examples, see our previous post). And as oil, gas and coal corporations pursue their relatively narrow, short-term profit goals, crafting effective responses…
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Major new SSHRC grant to examine fossil fuel industry in Western Canada
(Vancouver) Who is behind the wheel of fossil fuel extraction in Western Canada and what influence do they wield? These are the central questions driving a six-year research and public engagement initiative, Mapping the Power of the Carbon-Extractive Corporate Resource Sector, funded by a $2.5 million partnership grant awarded by…
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Fast Facts: Thunderbird House has potential to unite
Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press October 9th, 2015 When award winning author Joseph Boyden announced he would donate half of his One Summit speaker fee to Circle of Life Thunderbird House to fix its leaky roof, he likely didn’t fully appreciate the meaning of this generous gesture. …
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Fast Facts: The Tough on Crime Strategy Has Not Made Our Communities Safer
Crime rates in Canada have been steadily declining for more than a decade, yet prison populations have been increasing in recent years. Commentators have attributed this disconnection between dropping crime rates and rising incarceration numbers to the Harper government’s tough on crime strategy. Since 2006 the Harper Conservatives have implemented…
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BC government response to Ombudsperson’s report seriously inadequate: seniors care expert
(Vancouver) BC Ombudsperson Kim Carter’s report on the crisis in seniors care, released Wednesday, provides “an extraordinarily thorough, precise and do-able roadmap for rebuilding BC’s home and community care system,” says Marcy Cohen, a health researcher and author of numerous studies on seniors care for the Canadian Centre for Policy…
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Fast Facts: Why Canada Needs a Real Housing Policy
Every developed country except Canada knows that safe, affordable housing is a critical key to social, physical and emotional well-being. The list of poor outcomes associated with poor and unaffordable housing is long, and gets longer with every study. Higher rates of poor health, especially connected to respiratory illnesses and…
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September 2004: A New “Social Architecture” For Canada?
Planned redesign of social programs could spur privatization Policy-makers are quietly and stealthily planning to redesign Canada’s social programs—or, in the jargon so popular in social policy circles, they are trying to develop a new “social architecture” for Canada. And, no, it has nothing to do with the recent election—although,…
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Security agenda narrowly defined: Budget falls far short in meeting security needs for people
OTTAWA–Despite its billing as a personal security budget, Paul Martin’s budget falls far short of meeting the security needs of people, according to Bruce Campbell, Executive Director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. The government has increased spending on military, intelligence, airport, immigration, and border measures. It has done…
