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  • Believe it or not — this time it’s not just about the money

    On Feb 11, Ken Dryden, the federal Minister of Social Development, will meet in Vancouver with his provincial and territorial counterparts to finalize the agreement for a new national child care program. Minister Dryden is optimistic and said recently in Regina that “Canadians are one step closer to having a…

  • November 2004: Who’s Keeping Tabs on Global Tests?

    $85 million on international tests? It’s a sponsorship-scandal-sized waste One day my daughter came home from high school saying the teachers were really angry at her and a few of her equally high-achieving friends for skipping a test that “didn’t even count.” “Must have counted for something,” I said. “Oh,…

  • The time to act on poverty reduction in PEI is now

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Halifax/Charlottetown)—According to economist, Angella MacEwen, the co-author of a new report released today, “Prince Edward Island cannot afford to allow people to live in poverty any longer. While thousands of Islanders face the daily stress and consequences of not being able to make…

  • July 2004: Enbridge Spreads Disaster in Columbia

    In the December 2000/January 2001 Monitor, I reported that Enbridge Inc., one of Canada’s leading energy corporations, was linked to death squads in Colombia according to information provided by Amnesty International. Below, I examine the impact of this revelation in Canada as well as detail the further damage caused in…

  • Ottawa takes baby steps while BC backtracks on child care

    “I have tried 5 different babysitters. I wish I could send my child back to the daycare centre; he loved it there – but when we lost the subsidy we had to leave. We can barely pay our rent and buy food.” It may come as a surprise to hear…

  • December 2003: The Alternative Federal Budget

    AFB shows how a better budget would lead to a better world CCPA staff, research associates, economists and NGO activists are busily at work drafting our Alternative Federal Budget (AFB) for 2004. It will be unveiled shortly before federal Finance Minister John Manley tables his official budget in February. The…

  • A billion dollars of bogus carbon credits

    A story in today’s Vancouver Sun is disturbing, arguing that BC could make $1 billion from selling carbon offsets once the Western Climate Initiative gets underway. The projects are mostly in forest management and conservation, meaning less cutting and more sequestration of carbon in the forests themselves. The conservation part…

  • Nova Scotia Alternative Budget

    Fast Facts: Curbing public largesse to corporations in times of economic restraint

    Finance Minister Graham Steele is asking Nova Scotians to pull in their belts to help the government overcome the deficit and pay down the debt. It is only fair, therefore, that corporations who have been the recipients of government largesse be expected to go on a diet as well. Government…

  • Low income earners in Nova Scotia need a raise

    It’s time for Nova Scotians working for the minimum wage to get a big raise.  A substantial increase in the wage will go some way to addressing poverty experienced by  low income workers and households in Nova Scotia.  It would stimulate the provincial economy and contribute to productivity growth at…

  • CCPA researchers evaluate BC’s health care restructuring

    (Vancouver) The CCPA has published a policy brief called “Health care restructuring in BC.” It considers the implications of the provincial government’s plan for health care reorganization, announced on April 23, 2002. The report’s three co-authors, Sylvia Fuller, Colleen Fuller and Marcy Cohen, are available for interviews. Sylvia Fuller, the…

  • The public interest in a maze

    Canada, patents, and the Harvard Mouse Look up “patent” in your dictionary and you’ll find “plain and evident” among its definitions. But because patents seethe with contradictions, questions surrounding them are hardly plain, and their answers hardly evident. Patents shrink one public domain (by granting exclusionary rights to inventors) while…

  • Resource Economics Project (BC)

    Jobs vs. the Environment: Do We Have to Make a Choice?

    Keynote Address Given at a Sunshine Coast Public Forum I am glad to be talking to you today about the jobs vs. the environment dilemma because a major focus of my job is trying to resolve this dichotomy. I work with an advisory group of people who are from the…