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  • Good Economy Project

    In growing good jobs for BC’s economy, we’ve been neglecting a key ingredient

    As the promise of British Columbia’s liquefied natural gas bubble has begun to deflate, the conversation on how to grow good jobs in BC’s economy has been overlooking a key ingredient: food. A recent report by researcher Brent Mansfield issues a wake up call for the province’s current and long-term…

  • Education Project

    For cash and future considerations

    Ontario universities and public-private partnerships READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA–Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs), while promoted as an innovative approach to the provision of public goods and services, are playing a damaging role in Ontario’s universities, according to a new study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. For Cash and…

  • Jumping Off the Wireless Bandwagon

    Canadians perilously overexposed to electromagnetic radiation After three days of hearings on the health impacts of Wi-Fi and wireless technologies, Canada’s Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health released a remarkably timid report — An Examination of the Potential Health Impacts of Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Radiation – last December. Judging from the fact…

  • Corporate Mapping Project

    Canada’s fossil-fuel sector controlled by a few major players—including the five big banks, new study shows

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. VANCOUVER – The major investors in Canada’s fossil-fuel sector have high stakes in maintaining business as usual rather than addressing the industry’s serious climate issues, a new Corporate Mapping Project study reveals. “Substantial ownership and strategic control of Canada’s fossil fuel industry are in the…

  • State of the Inner City Report Launch

    Celebrating 10 years of community-based research: the 2014 State of the Inner City Report launch Tuesday December 16, 2014 Circle of Life Thunderbird House 715 Main Street Lunch 11:30 am Program – 12-1:15 pm Poverty in Winnipeg’s inner city is often a topic of public and media attention, but neighbourhood-level…

  • Manitoba’s Climate & Green Plan

    Catastrophic Failure of Leadership Last week, the Manitoba government announced it would amend Bill 16, the “Climate and Green Plan,” to eliminate its flat $25/tonne carbon tax, leaving it essentially empty of any real action on climate change. Just a few days later, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)—the…

  • Fast Facts: Meeting the housing needs of Aboriginal people moving to Winnipeg

    Winnipeg is home to Canada’s largest Aboriginal population. Aboriginal people, however, are among the most likely to experience homelessness and are also over-represented in housing that is unaffordable, overcrowded or in poor condition. Finding housing has become a wall preventing many Aboriginal people from successfully making Winnipeg home. Moving to…

  • Labour Matters

    Work Life: The Role of Labour in the Green Industrial Revolution

    Canada is well behind other developed – and some lesser-developed countries – in shifting gears to a green economy. Other countries are supporting green enterprises with targeted programs and subsidies.  But Canadian NGOs, social enterprises and green entrepreneurs are largely on their own. There are many reasons – not the…

  • Many families left out of federal budget

    The Harper government wants you to believe that average families are squarely at the centre of their budget spending this year. Before you celebrate this “something for everyone” approach to politics, consider this: A striking number of Canadians actually won’t benefit from much of what is promised in this budget.…

  • Wage War on Poverty, Not on Teachers and Schools: Poverty and Education in Nova Scotia

    Today is the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. There is lots of work ahead of us before we achieve that goal. Poverty rates in Canada are growing and the income gap is widening as more and more of the working force are working for minimum wage, or less than…

  • December 2006: Power to the People (in Suits)

    New kind of business lobby ominous threat to democracy Last June, “the three amigos”—the name the press gave the leaders of Canada, Mexico and the U.S. because they were meeting in Mexico at the time—launched the North American Competitiveness Council (the NACC). The NACC, described in government press releases as…

  • Underneath the legal drama: The ethics of for-profit health care in BC

    One of the most important constitutional trials in Canadian history was set to begin on September 8, 2014 before the BC Supreme Court. Dr. Day, owner of the for-profit Cambie Surgical Centre says he is fighting for the freedom of patients who are victims of “medical enslavement”, while making generous…