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  • Communities taking action against fringe financial services

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT In October 2003,  Dr. Jerry Buckland from Menno Simons College and a group of researchers examined the critical issue of fringe banking in North End Winnipeg. The original 229 page report was titled “The Rise of Fringe Financial Services in Winnipeg’s North End”.…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • The Ministry of Labour’s fight to hide Employment Standards violations makes a mockery of the Freedom of Information process

    Update: Since publication of this editorial the Ministry of Labour has reviewed its decision to not waive the records production fee, and has decided to comply with the Commissioner’s order. For three years now, the BC government has been fighting requests to disclose Employment Standards enforcement records. Whither freedom of…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 7 things that should be in this year’s BC Budget

    In the fifth year of a slow and largely jobless economic recovery, the 2014 BC Budget should prioritize measures to set the foundation of a more just and sustainable economy, where prosperity is shared by all citizens. Here are 7 initiatives that will get us there. 1. A comprehensive poverty…

  • Economic Security Project (BC)

    False promises for recent immigrants

    Study reveals low wage job cycle, workplace rights violations CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) In spite of high education levels, many recent immigrants to BC find themselves stuck in low wage jobs, with few meaningful protections in the workplace, according to a new study released by the…