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  • The Monitor, May/June 2022

    Hatred unmasked: Tracking the rise of right-wing extremism in Canada Download 4.99 MB Issue highlights: The wellness-to-white-supremacy pipeline is alive and well. Stacy Lee Kong’s examines the role that wellness influencers like Oh She Glows’ Angela Liddon play in funneling white women into right-wing radicalization. Uprooting the racism in our ranks. Members…

  • Creating a Just Society

    Reducing poverty, inequality will spur economic recovery An economic recovery that is mainly reliant on consumer spending is unavoidably fragile, since most Canadian consumers are now deeply in debt. Going into the Great Recession, the average Canadian household owed $1.40 for every dollar of disposable income. By mid-2009, that figure…

  • Fast Facts: Manitoba municipalities struggle to meet housing needs

    Mayors Cities and towns across the province are learning to work within their unique economic climates and available policy tools to deal with housing needs. That was evident following a panel discussion with Manitoba mayors as part of Building Partnerships 2016, the Manitoba Non-Profit Housing Association’s fourth annual conference in…

  • Canada’s Afghanistan “mission” cripples democracy at home

    Stephen Harper’s Conservative government shut down Parliament until March, mainly to avoid answering politically embarrassing questions about the torture of Canadian military detainees in Afghanistan. Especially disturbing are the allegations – and mounting evidence — that our military was complicit in this torture of captives by Afghan government “interrogators.” The…

  • October 2005: The New Economic World Order (Part II: China)

    Amazingly rapid economic growth has made China “world’s workshop” China’s economic ascent over the last two-and-a-half decades has been nothing short of astounding. It now has the fastest-growing large economy in the world, having increased by an amazing 9% a year since 1979, a historical record. As one U.S. newspaper…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    The US wants a NAFTA deal this month; Canada should say no

    Lighthizer, Guajardo and Freeland feeling the NAFTA love in April.For the past four weeks, NAFTA negotiators in Washington, D.C., have been working around the clock to reach an agreement in principle before the U.S. and Mexican electoral calendars sideline the Trump administration’s hopes for a speedy deal. Due to the…

  • Saying no to the conjurers’ trick of tax cuts

    Alex Himelfarb has had an impressive career in public service. A former professor, author and diplomat, he is probably best known for his service as clerk of the Privy Council for Jean Chretien, Paul Martin, and, briefly, Stephen Harper. His most recent accomplishment is “Tax is Not a Four Letter…

  • Who deserves a just transition?

    Source: Making decarbonization work for workers (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives) Who deserves a Just Transition to a cleaner economy? Coal miners, of course! Maybe steel workers, too, and truck drivers? Actually, all working people — and their families — probably need some support. So do the public services they depend on. Perhaps the whole economy…

  • Public Interest Research Project (BC)

    Government Not Enforcing Health Laws

    The provincial government recently stated that user charges for emergency health care services provided at the new False Creek Urgent Care Centre are legal. Minister of Health George Abbott says he would not have any basis for legal action because the doctors providing urgent care at the clinic are from…

  • No magic wand to deal with health care strikes

    After the recent 15-hour strike at the IWK Hospital (the first there since 1981), the Nova Scotia government is once again considering legislation to “deal with” strikes in health care. But Premier Rodney MacDonald will look in vain for a magic wand to wield. Health care, full of skilled and…

  • Taxes and Public Services

    Debate over taxes dangerously one-sided and misleading Politics is about choices. But we can’t make effective choices without clarity. And that means we have to have an adult conversation about taxes and public services. A conversation that starts at A and goes to B, and doesn’t assume something that doesn’t…

  • Manitoba’s NDP: time to return to its social democratic roots

    In June, 1969, Manitoba elected Canada’s first NDP government and Manitoba’s first social democratic government. The NDP has since become the dominant political party in Manitoba, winning 8 of the last 12 elections and governing for almost two years in every three since June, 1969. The NDP’s latest run as…