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On Labour Day, think about unions as an equalizing force
By raising the living standards of millions, labor miraculously created a market for industry and lifted the whole nation to undreamed levels of production. Those who today attack labor forget these simple truths, but history remembers them. Martin Luther King speaking in 1961 On Labour Day 2011 unions in North…
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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…
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My 15 minutes of Conservative fame
You can imagine my surprise last Thursday. “You’re on the Conservative website,” my friend Ellen cheerfully told me from Ottawa. “Why? What are they attacking me for?” I asked. “They’re not attacking you. They’re citing you,” she gleefully announced. Sure enough, there I was. In a release titled “No credible…
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The Latin American Revolution (Part X)
Peruvian election win latest triumph for left-wing reformers Ollanta Humala’s victory in the Peruvian election held on June 5 is the latest triumph for the Latin American Revolution. Humala, a progressive ex-army officer, was elected President as leader of the Nationalist Party. This brings to eleven the number of left-wing…
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Omnibus Crime Bill an Injustice
This fall the Harper government will pass an omnibus crime bill that will imprison thousands more Canadians and cost billions of dollars. It will not do as advertised by the Conservatives and drive the crime rate down. It will simply incarcerate for longer the many citizens who fall afoul of…
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Surely there are better ways to allocate the cash
The Liberals were long criticized for padding their budget forecasts, to disguise the true extent of Ottawa’s surpluses. But, with an election then in the offing, Finance Minister Ralph Goodale’s Nov. 14 fiscal update was the most honest in years, acknowledging some $50-billion in cumulative surpluses over the next five…
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Turning a blind eye to employers who break the law doesn’t solve the problem
Imagine if one day our police forces were cut in half, street patrols were eliminated, police stations closed, and people were told to send a lengthy form to police headquarters to report a crime. Doesn’t sound like such a great idea? Unfortunately, it’s pretty much what the BC government has…
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Oil and our coast – surely southern B.C. as important as The Great Bear
Like Mitch Anderson, in a must-read feature article in The Tyee, I am perplexed at the comparatively little attention that environmental organizations pay to the growing prospect of massive increases in oil shipments out of the Port of Vancouver. For the last few years, a coalition of environmental organizations, First…
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October 2003: Canadian Mining Companies Set to Destroy Ghana’s Forest Reserves
Under pressure from Canadian and U.S. mining companies, the Ghanaian government seems ready to pass legislation in June 2003 which will open the country’s protected forest reserves to mining. The companies’ bulldozers are ready to rip apart thousands of hectares of rainforest in the Ashanti, Eastern and Western Regions if…
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Labour Notes: The attack on unions has now come to Canada
How do we respond? Anyone who has been keeping tabs on recent developments in what can accurately be called the assault on trade unions and working people in the U.S., Britain, Ireland, and much of continental Europe, knew that it would eventually come to Canada. Well, it’s now here, in…
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September 2005: Selling Sickness
Drug companies profit hugely from creating “diseases,” then the “cures” How the World’s Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies are Turning Us All into Patients by Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels (Greystone, 2005) Review by Abby Lippman “At the end of times the merchants of the world will deceive the nations through their…
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September 2005: The Myth of Canada’s Anti-BMD Decision
Canada’s “no” to U.S. missile defense was really a hearty “yes” It was just over a year ago, on August 5, 2004, in the epicentre of Canada’s sacrosanct summer holidays, that the Canadian government ever-so-quietly initiated a major change to the NORAD agreement to add “missile defense” functions to the…