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  • New CIDA Reforms Risk Excluding the Poorest of the Poor

    In June 2001, the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) released a policy document proposing distinct new terms for development aid. The report, called “Strengthening Aid Effectiveness,” outlines a new direction for CIDA and new terms of reference for distributing aid.[1] On the one hand, it ties aid to global security,…

  • L’AUGMENTATION DU SALAIRE MINIMUM vs LES EXEMPTIONS D’IMPÔT SUR LE REVENU

    Le 26 avril 2009, le CCPA — Manitoba publiait un document détaillé (The View From Here: Manitobans call for a poverty reduction plan) réclamant au gouvernement manitobain d’intégrer la réduction de la pauvreté au cœur des politiques économiques et sociales de la province. Un tel plan ferait du Manitoba un…

  • Unlucky, lazy, or just female? Why there aren’t more women in the top 100

    Imagine finding $7.96 million in your stocking on Christmas morning. For Canada’s top 100 CEOs, that happy day has arrived. These 100 Canadians earn more than 99.9% of the working population of Canada.[1] But if you are woman, odds are you are not on that lovely list. Not now, not ever. It…

  • Where’s Our Danny Boy (2)? Mayor of embattled town weighs in on needed forest reforms

    Few British Columbia communities have been hit as hard by the forest industry crisis as Mackenzie. Some 1,500 jobs, by mayor Stephanie Killam’s estimate, have been lost in the community as sawmills, planer mills and pulp and paper mills closed. With hundreds of good paying mill jobs gone, jobs in…

  • Bike to Work Week and our transportation culture

    Pouring rain marked the start of Vancouver’s Bike to Work Week (May 11 – 17) this year, but those who braved the weather conditions are being rewarded with a beautiful sunshine for the ride home. Bike to Work Week is an annual event organized by the Vancouver Area Cycling Coalition,…

  • Resource Economics Project (BC)

    BC government should heed the call to consult on forestry changes

    British Columbia’s forests represent the single-largest renewable asset that we have, a public resource shared with First Nations across the province. Whatever the fate may be of our non-renewable natural gas resources, a topic that dominates today’s news headlines, our forests can and should be there for generations to come.…

  • La récession qui frappe le plus fort depuis les années 30, selon une étude

    CLIQUEZ ICI POUR CONSULTER LE RAPPORT. OTTAWA – La récession en cours frappe le Canada plus durement et plus rapidement que tout ralentissement antérieur et les Canadiens sont plus exposés à la ruine financière qu’ils l’ont été depuis les années 30, affirme-t-on dans un rapport publié par le Centre canadien…

  • Fast Facts: Teenaged photojournalists document the inner city

    Sixteen youth from North and West End Winnipeg were given an important assignment: tell the stories of their neighbourhoods to the rest of Winnipeg. The results are insightful and compelling; the inner city is as beautiful as it is ugly, a place of play and a place of fear and…

  • The NDP Platform and BC’s Economic Challenges

    Below is an oped of mine that was done at the request of the Vancouver Sun and that ran in today’s paper. Unfortunately, for reasons that are not entirely clear, the last two paragraphs were cut off, leaving the oped hanging. I put them back in below, and have requested…

  • How green are BC’s climate policies?

    One of the most striking contradictions in BC’s climate action plan is the oil and gas industry. Greg Amos in The Hook, quotes our “green” premier out on the campaign trail in the northeast: “Let me tell you what’s happened in the energy industry in British Columbia in the last…

  • Upstream thinking, healthy society and reviving Canadian democracy

    Social factors play a significant role in determining whether we will be healthy or ill. Our health care is but one element of what makes the biggest difference in health outcomes. This has been understood for centuries, and empirically validated in recent decades with study after study demonstrating health inequalities…

  • Balanced budget come hell or service cuts or asset fire sales

    The Minister of Finance on Tuesday announced the fall update to the country’s finances. There was a surprise in the works for Canadians, instead of the $3.8 billion surplus in 2015-16 from the 2013 Budget, Finance is now projecting a $6.7 billion surplus—or nearly twice as much money. In both cases, the…