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  • Digital equity and community solidarity during and after COVID-19

    As many have noted, COVID-19 is an efficient illuminator of our society’s strengths and weaknesses; its progress accelerates in spaces of inequality and injustice. There is a race among public health agencies at all levels to provide timely, accurate information about COVID-19 that is essential to support physical distancing policies…

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    The Pains of Health Care Privatization

    Guess who does the cooking and cleaning in BC hospitals and nursing homes? If you answered “mostly women,” you would be right. It’s not exactly news that service jobs in Canada are usually done by women. In the Lower Mainland, many of the cleaners and food service workers in our…

  • Fast Facts: Paging Dr. Peachey – Health care reform off the rails

    First published in the Winnipeg Free Press May 16, 2019 Healthcare watchdogs are talking about the return Dr. David Peachey to Manitoba. The re-emergence of the architect of Manitoba’s health reforms needs to be critically examined. Should the person who developed a plan be the same person evaluating its success…

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    BC’s relief measures for people on income assistance are welcome but more is needed

    On April 2, the BC government announced emergency financial support for some of the most vulnerable British Columbians: an extra $300 per month for people  receiving income and disability assistance and some very low income seniors, for three months. This necessary and welcome measure can’t come fast enough.  BC is…

  • HST Rebate on Hydro Bills Needs a Robin Hood Fix: report

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT TORONTO – Ontario’s flat-rate eight per cent rebate on residential hydro bills delivers bigger savings to the rich while the smallest savings go to the poorest households, says a new report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ Ontario office (CCPA-Ontario). Under the…

  • Concerns about federal wage subsidy program remain as details emerge

    The federal government announced new details yesterday regarding the Canadian Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) that will flow to employers facing significant revenue declines amid the COVID-19 crisis. CEWS applies to businesses, non-profits and charities of all sizes (including large, highly-profitable corporations) if they are facing a decline in revenue of…

  • Fast Facts – Grain, Trains and Autocrats: farmers pay the price of dismantling the Wheat Board

    This was originally published in the Winnipeg Free Press on April 15, 2014 A banner 2013 crop year and some rail delays due to cold weather don’t account for all our grain transportation woes. Coordination of rail to ships is out of synch: a study by Quoram Corporation found that…

  • Today’s conservatives Are Not Your Grandpa’s Tories

    Co-ops, Credit Unions and Free Trade Policies On the Main Street in Morden Manitoba there are two gas stations: an Esso and a Co-op. During the busiest times of the week-after a hockey game, or on Sunday when the area’s many churches let out-you will see cars waiting in line…

  • February 2005: The $125-Million Question

    Proposed flu immunization of all Canadians is not warranted This flu season so far has been quirkier than most, with more twists and turns than a B-grade slasher movie. We can tell you we are glued to our seats watching Canada’s media have a field day, expending barrels of ink…

  • Why are we revisiting P3s in Nova Scotia?

    Perhaps the only thing that is clear from the newest attempt to enter into more P3 partnerships in this province is that public policy decisions are made despite the lack of evidence to support them. The evidence against this kind of privatization is overwhelmingly negative – the Canadian Centre for…

  • Pulling Back the Curtain on University Financial Reports

    The need to “tighten our belts” is heard so often in the public sector, it is pretty much accepted without question.  This is certainly the case for Canadian universities:  actions such as raising tuition fees, cutting programs, increasing class sizes and workloads, closing defined benefit pension plans, cutting salaries, discontinuing…

  • Our Deadliest Addiction

    Oil drives our commerce, but could drive us to extinction “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” – Heraclitus, 535 BC-475 BC *     *     * When European explorers first sighted a pristine Gulf of Mexico 500…