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  • The Ontario PC Platform and MC Hammer Pants: Some things really shouldn’t make a comeback

    Social media has transformed political campaigning in the U.S. and in Canada. So perhaps it’s no surprise to find Ontario politicians glomming on to social media themes in a frenzied attempt to make certain outmoded concepts as hip and cool as that Fonzie character all the young people are talking…

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    It’s time to give high tech workers equal basic rights

    The BC government recently announced an update to its BC Jobs Plan that focused on measures to encourage increased employment in nine key sectors of the economy. One of those sectors is technology and innovation. To facilitate employment growth in this area the Premier announced that an “Innovation Network” would…

  • The Latin American Revolution (III)

    The U.S. Empire strikes back through a coup in Honduras At 1 a.m. on June 28, Manuel Zelaya, the elected progressive President of Honduras, was roused from his bed at gunpoint by masked Honduran army soldiers, who kidnapped him in his pajamas and put him on a plane to Costa…

  • The budget that could have been

    Even in the worst of times, budgets are rarely hemmed in by “economic necessity.” They are reflections of the values of the party in power. One government might look at economic data predicting low growth for the next five years (the current reality) and choose to cut program spending. Another…

  • Fast Facts: The sky will not fall with a higher minimum wage

    First published in the Winnipeg Free Press September 23, 2019 September 10th’s election results were disappointing for progressive Manitobans who were looking for a decisive shift towards economic justice. We face four more years of austerity, cutbacks, and crumbs for the working class. The Progressive Conservatives were clear during the…

  • Fast Facts: The Inequality Agenda and the Specious Ideas that Support It

    In June, 1998, Toronto’s Centre for Social Justice published a report by Armine Yalnizyan on the dimensions and implications of growing inequalities in the distribution of incomes in Canada. In November, 2006, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) established the Growing Gap project to track income trends “and policies…

  • The Ontario 2018 provincial election unofficially started today

    Under pressure over rising hydro bills, the Ontario government unofficially launched its 2018 provincial election campaign today. And, given the opposition parties are trying to make hydro bills the ballot box question, the province is responding to that challenge with the biggest hydro bill rebate plan of the three parties…

  • Poverty Reduction in Alberta

    Here are 10 things to know: Since taking office in 2015, the NDP government of Premier Notley has undertaken important steps that will almost certainly reduce poverty. These include the implementation of the Alberta Child Benefit (which will lift approximately 19,000 households out of poverty), substantial increases in funding for…

  • UNSPUN: Supporting Refugee Resettlement Beyond the Syrian Rufugee Crisis

    The Syrian refugee crisis has attracted unprecedented political attention and, arguably, corresponding political will in Canada.  In November 2015, the Province of Manitoba publicly stated it could welcome 1,500 to 2,000 of the 25,000 Syrian refugees that the federal Liberal government promised to resettle in Canada over a short period…

  • November 2007: Graduates Crushed By Student Debt Loads

    An 8-point plan to tackle Canada’s student loan crisis Since 1994-95, the impacts of soaring tuition fees on students who attend—or can’t afford to attend—universities and colleges in Canada have been well-publicized. So have the wide-ranging spinoff benefits to countries that provide more generous financial support to their institutions of…

  • Growing a Movement

    Unions need to develop deeper, broader membership activism The 21st century has been a liberating time so far; bumpy, yet liberating. We have seen waves of democratic revolutions in Africa and the Middle East. We have seen popular worker and citizen uprisings against neoliberal extremism in Wisconsin. And we have…

  • Fast Facts: Lessons of the Canada Post lockout

    Recent events tell us a lot about some of the challenges facing working people in Canada today. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) began rotating strike action on June 2nd, after over seven months of negotiations with Canada Post Corporation (CPC) for a new contract covering some 48 000…