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  • Managing the cost of Olympic gold

    Vancouver has won the opportunity to host the world at the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games. The widespread (though not universal) display of triumphant joy by supporters underscores the main reason for hosting the Games – pride and enjoyment. But the cost-benefit analysis I co-authored of the 2010 Winter…

  • October 2007: Racism Remains A Problem

    Why are people of colour having trouble getting good jobs? A recent population projection study done for the Department of Canadian Heritage predicts that by 2017 one in every five residents of Canada will be a member of what the government defines as “a visible minority.” This means that, in…

  • Fast Facts: Red River College Decision Part of a Pattern of Bad Decision-Making

    First published in the Winnipeg Free Press August 12, 2019 The recent decision to end the tenure of Paul Vogt as President and CEO of Red River College (RRC) has been met with widespread condemnation from some surprising sources. The consultant hired by the provincial government to review the governance,…

  • The Farmers’ Food Donation Tax Credit misses the mark in food security

    On February 25 BC joined Ontario and Quebec in offering farmers a tax incentive for donating to food assistance programs, such as food banks or school meal programs. Promised in last month’s budget, the Farmers’ Food Donation Tax Credit provides individuals or businesses registered as farms a 25% credit on any donated animal or…

  • Beyond Banksters is an eye-opening exposé of a ravenous financial system

    A review of Beyond Banksters: Resisting the New Feudalism, by Joyce Nelson, Watershed Sentinel Books, 164 pages, $20.00Over the course of my 70-plus years as a journalist, I’ve reviewed hundreds of books, many of them informative and educational. But Joyce Nelson’s Beyond Banksters, which I’ve just finished reading, is not…

  • Food Sovereignty In Canada

    Movement growing to control our own food and agriculture What do community gardens on vacant urban lots, mobilizations against sea-lice infestations on the B.C. coast, support for small-scale fishers, university and community-led elementary school food programs that promote local food, and farmer protests against the Canadian Wheat Board and the…

  • Harper Strategists Working From US Republicans’ Playbook

    As someone who studies political communication, I am struck by the success, if not the ethics, of the Harper Conservatives’ political marketing strategies.  Branding and spin have become central to every major party’s campaigns.  But Harper has taken the game to a new level – in ways that undermine informed…

  • Stark Choices

    During her ill-fated campaign as Prime Minister, Kim Campbell famously noted that elections are no time for serious policy debate. It comes as no surprise, then, that we are hearing more this spring about tiny tax credits for piano lessons than about Canada’s most durable and egregious social injustice. That…

  • A critical guide to the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change

    After working on climate and energy issues intensively for the past nine years, I would love to scream from the rooftops about how Canada now has a real climate framework, and how as a nation we are proudly, if belatedly, walking the talk. Instead, I feel immensely disappointed by last…

  • Path of Destruction

    Canadian mining companies on rampage around the world Canada is the world’s leading mining nation. Sixty per cent of all public mining companies are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. About half of all mining capital is raised in Canada. Many Canadian mining companies have become notorious for damaging communities…

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    Fast Facts: Gains are being made – State of the Inner City Report 2015

    It has recently been claimed in the media that nothing is working in the fight against poverty. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives State of the Inner City Report 2015: Drawing on Our Strengths, shows that this is not the case. Important poverty-related indicators are improving. After decades of decline,…

  • 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.…