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  • June 2005: Time to Tame Corporate Power

    CEOs expect gov’ts to serve only them—and most gov’ts do As I was scanning the latest documents describing WTO negotiations on its services agreement, the GATS (General Agreement on Trade in Services), I came across a quote that reinforced for me how much corporations have come to dominate our political…

  • Defending Green Jobs at the WTO

    As a partner in Blue Green Canada, the United Steelworkers have issued the following news release. Erin Weir is an economist with the United Steelworkers union and a CCPA research associate. WTO Called Upon to Dismiss Japan, EU Challenge to Canadian Renewable Energy Policy Canadian NGOs and labour unions have sent an amicus…

  • The Hidden Costs of the Health Care Wage Cut

    A year ago, health care facilities in BC were behind picket lines. At issue was a new collective agreement, unilaterally imposed by the BC government, that cut wages and increased work hours for the lowest paid workers in health care. Most of the striking workers were from the Hospital Employees’…

  • Fast Facts: It’s Budget Time Again

    A glimmer of hope and a healthy dose of skepticism On April 17th Minister Stan Struthers will release details of how the Province will manage our money this year.  Here is how the process will unfold. A few pre-budget day announcements will be, or have been, made to manage expectations…

  • November 2004: Who’s Keeping Tabs on Global Tests?

    $85 million on international tests? It’s a sponsorship-scandal-sized waste One day my daughter came home from high school saying the teachers were really angry at her and a few of her equally high-achieving friends for skipping a test that “didn’t even count.” “Must have counted for something,” I said. “Oh,…

  • War on Workers continues in Nova Scotia

    The holy commotion orchestrated by Nova Scotia employers over Bill 102 on First Collective Agreement Arbitration is not really about this very modest piece of legislation. At best, it will affect few employers. As the premier has said, most Canadian provinces have such legislation and it is seldom used. So…

  • Don’t blame the feds

    The fiscal imbalance is largely a problem imposed by the provinces on themselves through destructive tax competition Next week, the 13 premiers and territorial leaders will meet in St. John’s, N.L., with fiscal issues dominating the agenda. It is not going to be pretty. Studies and background work over the…

  • July 2006: Tackling the NAFTA Challenge

    “Free trade” clearly a disaster, but how do we free ourselves? Bruce Campbell’s article in this issue explains how NAFTA—and its predecessor CUFTA—have worsened living standards and the quality of life for most Canadians. He buttresses his findings with incontrovertible facts and figures. In past issues of The Monitor, many…

  • Occupy Canada: This week’s news

    Occupy Wall Street has opened up public discussion about a problem that keeps getting worse: the gap between the rich and the rest of us – encapsulated in the Occupy movement’s slogan We are the 99%. Here’s a roundup of some of the stories emerging on the issue of income inequality…

  • April 2006: Taxing Our Credulity

    Mad about paying taxes? OK, but is your anger well-directed? April is tax-paying month and many low- and middle-income Canadians labouring over their tax-forms will be fuming and swearing at the governments they are compelled to endow with their hard-earned money. Filers who derive their much higher incomes from stocks…

  • Study finds BC’s welfare system denying assistance to people in need, ‘diverting’ many to homelessness and hardship

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) A major study released today finds that BC’s welfare system is systematically discouraging, delaying and denying assistance to many of the people most in need of help, with harmful consequences for some of the province’s most vulnerable residents. “Denied Assistance: Closing the…

  • Ontario Alternative Budget

    Liberals’ patchwork reinvestment strategy leaves public services underfunded, says Ontario Alternative Budget

    TORONTO— According to an Ontario Alternative Budget technical paper released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, the McGuinty government’s current fiscal plan would result in program spending dropping to levels lower than it was when they took power. Despite funding increases in key areas, the McGuinty government has…