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  • Fast Facts: Racisme policier

    Depuis le tout premier jour de l’enquête sur le décès de Matthew Dumas, atteint d’une balle tirée par un policier de Winnipeg, maître Robert Tapper prend la peine d’insister sur le fait que la race n’a rien à voir avec la mort de monsieur Dumas. Dans son rapport publié récemment,…

  • Message to BC

    Ontario learned the hard way The recent Ontario provincial budget probably doesn’t sound like exciting summer reading to most people, but British Columbians might want to pay close attention. The political message from the budget is clear: Mike Harris’ so-called “Common Sense Revolution” is nearing the end of the road-just…

  • Prominent economists challenge rationale for privatizing Hydro One

    (Toronto) In a report released today, three prominent economists throw cold water on the “business case” that the provincial government has offered for privatizing Hydro One. The authors, Myron Gordon, Doug Peters, and Mike McCracken, examine the arguments being made for selling the province’s electricity and distribution systems to private…

  • December 2001: An Unpunished War Criminal

    Book review THE TRIAL OF HENRY KISSINGER by Christopher Hitchens, Verso, 2001, $35 (Book Review) “Kissinger is a thug, a crook, a liar and a murderer.”– Christopher Hitchens The United States government is the most violent in the world and since 1945 has killed upwards of eight million people in…

  • Globalization, trade deals and drugs

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT Canadian government concessions to the big multinational pharmaceutical companies, including an extension of their monopoly on new drugs to 20 years, have resulted in sharply escalating prices for drug prescriptions, the potential blocking of a national Pharmacare program, and Canadian complicity in denying…

  • July 2008: An Interview with Dr. Maria Paez Victor

    South Americans defy U.S. to integrate their economies While European and North American governments wallow in right-wing militarism, Latin American states are leading the world in implementing progressive social change. They are doing this not just within countries, but also on a continental level now that 10 left-wing Latin American…

  • July 2008: Divide and Fail, Unite and Win

    With élites united and majority split, inequality worsens The world’s wealth and resources are being more inequitably distributed than ever before. IBM’s latest Global CEO Study disclosed that the combined income of the 1,130 top executives surveyed in 2007 was $2.224 trillion—an amount higher than the GDP of the entire…

  • The case against protest violence

    At a time when the anti-globalization movement needs to be more united than ever before, it is disturbingly divided. The split is over means, not ends, but is nonetheless very worrisome. The disagreement is over protest violence. Should it be condemned or condoned (explicitly or implicitly) by those who believe…

  • Canada blocks access to cheap medicines

    Canada could find itself in a very embarrassing position at the WTO meetings in Qatar this weekend. We could be one of just five countries in the world opposing a declaration that ensures access to essential medicines for millions of people. The World Trade Organization enforces the monopoly rights of…

  • Global village or global apartheid?

    The world after September 11, 2001 For over 15 years I have studied and traveled extensively to Peru, a country besieged by terrorism. When the violence began, the first thing Peruvians learned was how vulnerable they were. No security force can patrol all the bridges, airports, government buildings, power lines,…

  • Shedding light on “invisible” gang members

    Female gang members typically ignored in research and programming, report finds READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. WINNIPEG–Most of what is known about gang activity and involvement centres around men. With the exception of some media reports, female gang members have remained mostly invisible in research about gangs, and in gang…

  • Symposium: Public solutions to improve access to health care

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT MONTREAL — Innovations in health care in Quebec and across Canada prove wait lists can be shortened, productivity increased, costs controlled and health improved within Canada’s public health system, a symposium on public solutions to improve access to health care will hear today.…