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  • The dangers of deregulation extend beyond mining disasters

    The Mount Polley Mine disaster has raised important questions about the risks and costs of deregulation of the mining industry in BC. I spoke about this issue recently on CBC Vancouver’s Early Edition and CBC Kamloops’ Daybreak (if you missed it, there’s audio here, starts around 1:00:48). As a citizen…

  • October 2002: The Ravaging of Africa

    Western neo-colonialism fuels wars, plundering of resources The G8 Summit held in Kananaskis in June, pledged $6 billion dollars a year in so-called aid to Africa by 2006. The low figure caused Phil Twyford of Oxfam to say “We’re extremely disappointed by this wasted opportunity. They’re offering peanuts to Africa…

  • Public Interest Research Project (BC)

    Who’s to blame for rising homelessness?

    There has been considerable reaction to federal NDP leader Jack Layton’s comments linking Liberal government housing policy and the deaths of homeless people. While Layton’s claim may be partially true, the answer to the question ‘who is responsible for homelessness?’ is more nuanced. Back in 1993, the Conservative government’s last…

  • Resource Economics Project (BC)

    Site C: Too risky to rely on one river system for BC’s hydro needs

    In the face of a prolonged drought, water levels at Lake Mead, the giant hydroelectric reservoir that straddles the Nevada and Arizona borders, are lower than at any point since the iconic Hoover Dam was built in the 1930s. For residents in California, Nevada, Arizona and northern Mexico a crisis…

  • What’s wrong with a revenue neutral carbon tax?

    The political appeal of a revenue neutral carbon tax is clear. The tax provides an incentive to reduce fossil fuel use, and the revenue neutrality — reducing income or other taxes in amounts more or less equal to the amount of carbon tax revenues that the government receives — makes…

  • BC’s controversial contract obligations dwarf its debt

    Most of the discussion around the delivery of British Columbia’s public accounts this week has centred on debt (Marvin Shaffer makes excellent points in the previous post on why debt is not always bad) and on how BC got the money to balance its books. Something else worth looking at,…

  • Temporary Foreign Worker Program changes – who do they help?

    The Conservative Government’s Minister of Employment and Social Development, Jason Kenney, announced on June 20th 2014 a raft of changes to the federal Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP). The program has attracted controversy since at least 2006, most recently when the CBC reported that MacDonald’s outlets in Victoria were favoring temporary foreign workers…

  • Seniors’ care concerns should be taken seriously in this election

    Access to residential care beds for seniors was dubbed “an election hotspot” by CTV early last week, and for good reasons. The party that forms government after May’s election will have to deal with the pressures that the aging population would put on the already strained system of seniors’ care…

  • Growing Gap

    CEOs power lunch on average Canadian wage: study

    TORONTO—On the first working day of the New Year, Canada’s highest paid 100 CEOs are seriously power lunching: by 12:18 pm today, their average pay is already $48,636 — what it takes the average full-time, full-year worker all of 2016 to earn. In the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ (CCPA)…

  • Growing Gap

    Staying Power

    CEO Pay in Canada Download 832.08 KB22 pages This report looks at the 2008-2014 compensation levels for Canada’s highest paid 100 CEOs and finds that the average pay of Canada’s top executives has been extraordinarily resilient, in good times and in bad. The review finds that the country’s top 100…

  • Labour Matters

    Work Life: A Ray of Hope for Winnipeg Transit

    Winnipeg’s public transit system is in great need of improvement if it is to meet the needs of those who rely on it – seniors, low-income people, youth and persons with disabilities who cannot drive. By allowing people to get to work regardless of their schedules, an efficient transit system…

  • Labour Matters

    Work Life: Manitoba’s Proactive Enforcement of Temporary Foreign Worker’s Rights is a model for Canada

    Canada’s Temporary Foreign Workers Program (TFWP) has become a hot potato for the federal government, which is frantically attempting to quell widespread outrage sparked by revelations of Canadians fired to be replaced by cheaper, more vulnerable and thus more compliant migrants, abusive working conditions, illegal fees charged to foreign job-seekers,…