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  • BC government non-response to study on how Natural Gas Strategy breaks BC’s GHG law

    Since my report on how BC’s legislated GHG targets are being compromised by the 2012 Natural Gas Strategy, I’ve been keenly interested to see how the government would respond. The report prompted a story in today’s Metro news, but the reporter was unable to get a response from the government…

  • Getting it Wrong For Seniors in British Columbia

    Seniors and their families need and should have access to useful information when they are making critical decisions about residential care and throughout the period of residence in facilities. — BC Ombudsperson, The Best of Care: Getting It Right for Seniors in British Columbia (Part 1) Mass replacement of staff can…

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    Asbestos-caused disease increasing in Canada, and many victims are women 

    For more than a century, it has been known that asbestos causes disease and death. But the asbestos industry suppressed scientific evidence, created lobby organizations and hi-jacked public policy. Canadians, and people around the world, have paid the price with their lives. The economic costs have also been enormous, with…

  • May 2004: Well-Being Measurement — The Next Step

    The time is ripe for a Canadian Genuine Progress Index (GPI) Last June, the key directive from the Canada Well-Being Measurement Act was approved by a vote of 185 to 46 in the House of Commons. Motion M-385 states: “… that in the opinion of this House, the government should…

  • Dead Money

    Kudos to Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney for raising the profile of the over $500 billion Canadian corporations are holding in excess cash surpluses and not investing in the economy, which garnered front page coverage (and kudos to the CAW for inviting him to speak). It’s not the first time he’s…

  • Environmental Violence

    Time magazine recently reported that particulates in the air from “industry, traffic and domestic heating, cause 4,300 premature deaths in London each year”. That works out to about 12 people dying every single day, in just one city. The British government does not seem worried about this horrific toll. To…

  • Fast Facts: New Progressive Conservative Manitoba government – four areas to watch

    The recently elected Progressive Conservative (PC) party in Manitoba ran on a call for change. But change for the sake for the sake of change can cause more harm than good, especially for Manitoba’s most marginalized. While there are many policy areas to monitor, here are four to watch as…

  • Stuffing Solar City where the sun don’t shine?

    The Halifax Regional Municipality’s Solar City project has been widely heralded as visionary and pioneering, an inspiration not only to other municipalities in Nova Scotia, but across the country. The plan is to bring solar hot water to a 1,000 homes in the city, allowing homeowners to repay the cost…

  • UNSPUN: Community Benefits in Procurement

    Elections are noisy and cluttered affairs that can make it difficult for some of the most promising, Manitoba-made policy innovations to get the attention they deserve. One of these policies is the use of day-to-day government purchasing to provide job and training opportunities for people with barriers to employment. Little-known…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    Canada’s Humiliating Entry into TPP Trade Deal

    The Harper government’s frantic efforts to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations came to fruition last week, with the announcement that Canada will be admitted to the talks. The TPP is a nine-member, U.S.-led effort to create a “21st century” trade and investment agreement. The U.S. is seeking a tough,…

  • February 2006: Why Canada Needs a National Energy Plan

    U.S. is now determined to control Canada’s electric power Canadians who care about the effects of U.S. imperialism tend to associate it with the adamant positions the U.S. takes on trade deals and its aggressive measures related to security. The drama of these events–particularly the war in Iraq, the softwood…

  • February 2006: The “Big Business Bang” Theory II

    If unbridled capitalism is the problem, what’s the solution? If you agree with the case I’ve made that almost all our most pressing social, economic, and environmental problems are caused and perpetuated by unbridled corporate power, the obvious question that arises is: how can that horribly misused power be tamed?…