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Charting a path in uncertain times
We live in increasingly unsettling times. Two world orders are chafing against each other: the rules-based international order, however imperfect, and the emerging strong man, power brokerage order. These approaches are in friction, and we don’t yet know what the outcome will be. Countries are rapidly trying to forge new…
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Fossil fuel workers are organizing to lead a just transition
An interview with Iron and Earth, which helps oil and gas workers transition to renewables and the net-zero economy
An interview with Iron and Earth, which helps oil and gas workers transition to renewables and the net-zero economy
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Before the Chinese Exclusion Act, anti-racists were organizing
1923 Chapter 1: Challenging Racism, 1912-1914
1923 Chapter 1: Challenging Racism, 1912-1914
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Manitoba by the Numbers: Population
The first in a series Population Indicators 1,303,900 Manitoba’s population estimated by Statistics Canada as of January 1, 2016.[1] 16,200 The amount the Manitoba Bureau of Statistics estimates Statistics Canada undercounted Manitoba’s population number above. This impacts per capita transfers from the federal government to Manitoba. 1.71% Manitoba’s population growth…
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Eastern Canada needs to speed up its climate transition
Organized opposition has already put the stop to a number of fossil fuel projects in Eastern Canada—it’s time to put the stake through the industry as a whole.
Organized opposition has already put the stop to a number of fossil fuel projects in Eastern Canada—it’s time to put the stake through the industry as a whole.
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An Antidote to Ignorance
Eugene Forsey debunks some Canada’s Parliament now appears to have returned to its pathetic “business-as-usual” mode in the aftermath of the inexcusable prorogation last December. This gives citizens the dubious privilege of contemplating the events of the past few months, and trying to learn the necessary lessons to help us…
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Fast Facts: Funding Non-Profit Organizations Gives Good Value for Money
Several small non-profit organizations (NPOs) are nervously awaiting Manitoba’s 2017 budget. Funding sources they’ve come to rely on have been ‘on pause’ for months and it’s beginning to affect the services they provide. Many organizations have been unable to confirm that multi-year agreements signed through the government’s Non-Profit Organization (NPO)…
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Rebuilding the working class
Organized workers have the power to fundamentally transform the economy
Organized workers have the power to fundamentally transform the economy
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Ontario’s Bill 28 is dead. Now what?
Laura Walton talks organizing, leadership, and the future of the labour movement.
Laura Walton talks organizing, leadership, and the future of the labour movement.
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How Proportional Representation could help to decentralize power and strengthen Parliament
Submission to the House of Commons Special Committee on Electoral Reform The debate around electoral reform has largely neglected a central question: what would a change in the electoral system mean for Canada’s constitutional separation of powers? To state the matter briefly, our Westminster system has an inherent tendency toward…
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Who’s minding the shop at Site C?
Appointment of engineer with long-term ties to BC Hydro to be government’s “independent” advisor on dam’s construction raises vexing questions In 2011, his last year as a salaried employee at BC Hydro, Tim Little earned just under $210,000 as the Crown corporation’s chief engineer. The next year, after decades of…
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Canada’s GST tax holiday won’t do much for affordability
If the feds were serious about affordability, there’s lots of other things they could be doing.
The following article is based on speaking notes from a presentation which the author gave to the Senate Committee on National Finance. The video of the presentation is at the bottom of the page.
