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  • Labour Matters

    Fast Facts: Private Long Term Care & Home Care Zombies

    UBC economist Robert Evans calls user fees in health care zombies, a policy option that keeps surfacing despite being killed over and over again by the evidence.   During Manitoba’s recent provincial election Brian Pallister invoked zombies anew by saying that he would not rule out the introduction of private sector…

  • Some baby steps for dad and big steps forward for women

    The government promised us a budget guided by gender analysis this year, and they delivered: on pay equity, on supports for women entrepreneurs and, in the warm fuzzy afterglow of Canada’s successful Olympics showing, a little something for women in sports. Investments in child care, women’s organizations and ending violence…

  • The Global Economic Crisis and its Canadian Dimension

    Economic downturn is already as bad as in the early 1930s There is still an air of disbelief in Canada about the severity of the current global recession — now widely accepted as the worst since the Great Depression of the 1930s — both as it is affecting Canada and…

  • Labour Matters

    Work Life: Government’s Directive is No Excuse

    Labour Rights Prevail First published in the Winnipeg Free Press February 9 2018 On January 29, 2018, the Manitoba Labour Board issued its ruling in favour of the University of Manitoba Faculty Association (UMFA) in the unfair labour practice (ULP) filed against the University of Manitoba (UM) in connection with…

  • Giving Till It Hurts

    Charities help needy, but also help governments deny help Of the roughly 150,000 non-government organizations (NGOs) in Canada, about 40% have charitable status. This means they provide services that Revenue Canada considers useful enough to warrant allowing them to give tax-deductible receipts to their financial supporters. If you’re wondering why…

  • Canada’s largest companies prioritizing shareholder payouts over pension contributions

    OTTAWA—Last year, Canada’s largest publicly-traded companies paid out four times more to shareholders than it would have cost to fully fund their defined benefit (DB) pension plans, according to new research released by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). Thirty-nine companies on the S&P/TSX 60 maintain DB pension plans, amounting to…

  • Fast Facts: Should Manitobans trust nuclear burial plans?

    First published in the Winnipeg Free Press January 23, 2018 There was a time when a plan to bury highly radioactive materials 500m from a river that provides drinking water and flows into Lake Winnipeg, would have attracted a fair bit of attention in Manitoba. Maybe even a mild uproar.…

  • November 2006: How Canadians “Protect” in Haiti

    Canada complicit in suppressing democracy in Haiti Does the Canadian-promoted “Responsibility to Protect” doctrine in Haiti include murder, rape, and threats of violence? That’s the question we should be asking Canadian officials after a study in the prestigious Lancet medical journal released at the end of August revealed there were…

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    Resource Economics Project (BC)

    Public inquiry needed to properly investigate deep social and environmental harms of fracking, coalition says

    VANCOUVER—A promised “review” of natural gas industry fracking operations should be broadened to a full Public Inquiry that examines all aspects of the dangerous gas extraction technique, says a coalition of community, First Nation and environmental organizations. The call on the new BC government is to broaden a promise first…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    Will CETA Help Tories…Or Hurt Them?

    With Prime Minister Harper making the diplomatic rounds in Europe, media interest has heightened this week regarding the potential free trade agreement which his government is trying to negotiate with the European Union. Several deadlines to reach that deal have come and gone, but the Conservatives are still heavily committed…

  • Study confirms what parents suspect: BC is one of Canada’s most expensive provinces for child care

    A report released by our National Office this week confirms what many parents already know: BC is one of Canada’s most expensive provinces for child care, especially for younger age groups (infants and toddlers). Cities in the Greater Toronto and Metro Vancouver stand out as the most expensive places in…

  • Reading the entrails of BC’s election

    Three-peat. Hat trick. The media is full of jubilation for the re-election of the Campbell Liberals. But looking at the numbers, it was actually quite close: the BC Liberals got 45.7% of the popular vote, compared to 42.2% for the NDP. This slim margin validates the Angus Reid polling camp,…