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Can cooperatives humanize the economy?
Book Review of Humanizing the Economy: Cooperatives in the Age of Capital, by John Restakis, New Society Publishers, 2010. The economy is about business, right? Sure, we have a dynamic mixed economy, and most people support decent social programs and government intervention to protect the environment or to improve living…
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Fast Facts – Grain, Trains and Autocrats: farmers pay the price of dismantling the Wheat Board
This was originally published in the Winnipeg Free Press on April 15, 2014 A banner 2013 crop year and some rail delays due to cold weather don’t account for all our grain transportation woes. Coordination of rail to ships is out of synch: a study by Quoram Corporation found that…
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Thousands of users risk losing access to water as application deadline looms: government must act swiftly to avoid crisis
VANCOUVER – Thousands of non-domestic groundwater users across BC risk losing their historic water rights if they fail to apply for licences before a fast-approaching deadline, warn two former senior provincial government employees. The warning comes as new research from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives shows that since the…
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Secret Surveillance Targets Civil Society
Much of Canada’s spying is done on behalf of corporations I spy, you spy. . . In the world of big mining and big oil companies, it would seem that everybody spies. Canadians were profoundly shocked to learn that the Canadian government had been spying on the Ministry of Mining…
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Public funds for Youth For Christ
Have our politicians learned nothing from past mistakes? On February 17, 2010, the Mayor’s Executive Policy Committee (EPC) passed a motion to provide a grant in the amount of $225,000 per year for 15 years in support of the Youth for Christ Centre of Excellence. On February 24th, Winnipeg City…
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What happened to the National Housing Strategy?
Launched in 2017, the National Housing Strategy (NHS) was billed as a major re-engagement by the federal government on affordable housing after more than two decades on the sidelines. Starting with a headline commitment of $40 billion when first announced and supplemented in subsequent budgets, the NHS is now ostensibly…
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Capitalism vs. Us
A review of Naomi Klein’s new book, “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate” Naomi Klein writes important books and has very good timing. But as we’re warned in her latest, the meticulously researched and predictably impressive This Changes Everything, time is something we’ve finally run out of. The climate…
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Damming the information flow: BC government officials button lipped on potentially dangerous dams
Early last spring, provincial civil servants cut off virtually all communication about what the government knew about a sprawling network of potentially dangerous and unregulated dams in northeast BC on the pretext they could not comment because of the impending election. The coordinated effort meant there was virtually no comment…
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The KPMG Report
No solution for the low-income housing problem Consulting firm KPMG’s recommendations that Manitoba Housing units be sold and that the private sector play a greater role in providing housing for low-income people are profoundly mistaken. Far from being the solution to the problem of low-income housing, the private sector has…
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Will proposed new Senators be an aristocracy of the distinguished?
Ruth Ellen Brosseau is a Member of Parliament against the odds. A single mother and the assistant manager of a pub, she was elected in 2011, as Wikipedia describes her, as a “paper candidate” because the NDP had no viable nominee in the riding.” But here’s the thing. She worked…
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Fast Facts: State of the Inner City Report 2017
Every year CCPA-Manitoba conducts research on Winnipeg’s Inner City for our State of the Inner City report. Emerging out of conversation and collaboration with community-based partners we examine the issue most pressing to them. This year we heard that community-based organizations (CBOs) are confused and uncertain about the government’s spending…
