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  • June 2002: A U.S.-Financed Military Dictatorship

    Pakistan has long, bloody history as terrorist arm of U.S. The United States’ choice of Pakistan as an ally in its “war on terrorism” provides the spectacle of the two leading terrorist states on Earth “fighting terrorism.” The U.S. has killed more than eight million people in the Third World…

  • Manitoba Conservatives open door to privatization

    Social service schemes announced this week by the Manitoba Progressive Conservatives to encourage private childcare and introduce Social Impact Bonds soften the ground towards privatization. The assumption is that the private sector knows best how to fund and deliver public services. This is false – publicly delivered services are more…

  • Labour Matters

    Bucking the Trend: Manitoba Defends Workers’ Pensions

    Each day Canadian newspapers carry a version of the same story: working Canadians are not prepared for retirement. Statisticians and economists who look at the problem conclude that about half of middle-class baby boomers will experience a steep drop in living standards when they retire. They also show that with…

  • May 2004: Iraqis Getting a Raw Deal on Debt

    Iraq’s huge odious debts must be eliminated, not merely “rescheduled” During the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last January, Prime Minister Paul Martin announced that Canada would write off “the vast majority” of the C$750 million Iraq owes to federal agencies. Media reports implied that this debt reduction would…

  • Canada’s Ongoing Involvement in Dirty Wars

    Like the U.S., Canada is “outsourcing” warfare in Afghanistan The U.S. Congressional Research Service (CRS) published its latest of many reports last February, indicating that the United States has increasingly relied on Special Operations Forces to project force abroad throughout the Global War on Terror. The latest CRS report predicts…

  • Fast Facts: Springing to Action on Child Care

    Numerous studies have demonstrated that quality child care has a positive correlation with improved childhood outcomes, notably higher social and cognitive scores upon school entry, especially with children living in poverty. On Wednesday May 13th child care advocates from across Canada are joining together to call for a universally accessible,…

  • Fast Facts: Winnipeg’s Racism Challenge

    The Maclean’s article citing Winnipeg as Canada’s most racist city has prompted a public conversation that may prove to be useful. It is important that Winnipeg’s two solitudes get to know each other, at a personal and social level, and that non-Aboriginal people speak to and about Aboriginal people in…

  • A Pandemic of Greed

    The real global epidemic is blatant media fear-mongering If there is any pandemic sweeping the globe, it’s one of fear and greed, not a deadly new strain of influenza. The news media have filled their pages and newscasts with reports of deaths in Mexico, Texas, and even one in Canada,…

  • Cambie Corp. Goes to Court

    The Legal Assault on Universal Health Care Download 712.52 KB 40 pages This report examines recent attempts by private sector advocates to challenge the right to universal public health care in the courts, with a focus on the current Charter challenge before the B.C. Supreme Court, led by Brian Day’s…

  • Watch out for that train

    Is it too early to start talking about what happens now the election is over? Because that light at the end of the tunnel really is a train. In their February Budget the Liberals said they were going to have a $500 million deficit this year. Nobody believed them then.…

  • BC’s economy and the Liberal platform

    With my oped last week on the NDP platform making me less than popular over at NDP HQ, today the Sun published my take on the Liberals’ platform, thereby guaranteeing that the list of Christmas parties I get invited to dwindles to next to nothing. BC’s Economic Challenges and the…

  • The Ghost of Elections Past (revised)

    From our STV series in the new BC Commentary, UVic historian Ben Isitt looks to the past when he sees STV. UPDATE (April 30): It seems that there is some confusion about the term Single Transferable Vote and its applicability to the 1952 and 1953 elections. Dennis Pilon, also from…