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  • Financial Risk and Alberta’s Tar Sands

    When it comes to global warming, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change notes that what matters is the total volume of greenhouse gas emissions going forward. This amounts to about 30 years of emissions at current levels – a global carbon budget that would provide the world a 66% chance of staying below…

  • Time to Rethink The Way We Fund Higher Education

    This September, like every year, a new group of high school graduates headed to college or university to pursue higher education. But today’s generation of students is in for a very different experience from the ones their parents had. On campuses across the country shiny new buildings are popping up,…

  • Canada should get back into the social housing game

    The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), Canada’s national housing agency, has undergone a profound shift in recent decades. Prior to 1993, it was the main vehicle through which the federal government supported social housing in Canada. CMHC opened up homeownership opportunities for moderate-income Canadians by insuring and backing home…

  • Tax Increment Financing and Social Enterprise

    Promoting Equitable Community Revitalization in Winnipeg Currently, Manitoba is one of only two provinces in Canada that utilizes Tax Increment Financing (TIF) as a means for financing community revitalization projects in municipalities, although it has a long history of use in the United States. In a TIF financing scheme, the…

  • Getting it Wrong For Seniors in British Columbia

    Seniors and their families need and should have access to useful information when they are making critical decisions about residential care and throughout the period of residence in facilities. — BC Ombudsperson, The Best of Care: Getting It Right for Seniors in British Columbia (Part 1) Mass replacement of staff can…

  • June 2008: The Press Vs. The People

    Media ownership in Canada one of world’s most concentrated Lawrence Martin of the Globe and Mail, writing in 2005, noted that the media in Canada have become “concertedly conservative, moving to the right of the people, most strikingly on the question of U.S.-Canada relations (missile defence, Iraq, defence spending, taxation,…

  • From cabinet to CropLife: Menzies avoids ethical scrutiny over new job as top pesticide and GMO lobbyist

    Since last November, Sierra Club Canada’s John Bennett has been raising the alarm about the appointment of Ted Menzies, the former Conservative cabinet minister, as president and CEO of CropLife Canada. Menzies announced his new job a mere week after resigning as MP for the Alberta riding of Macleod with…

  • New CCPA report highlights inequality in the global economy

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Ottawa) A new report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives sheds some light on the pressing issue of inequality in the global economy. The report, The Global Divide, comes as officials gather in Washington this weekend to discuss topics such as global…

  • BC government using affordability excuses to underfund education and health

    Affordability is becoming the new buzzword of the BC government. In the dispute with teachers, for example, the Minister of Education has repeatedly argued demands for lower class sizes and improved class composition, as well as fair wages, are unaffordable and unrealistic (see here). When parents and businesses make the…

  • The Latin American Revolution (Part XIV)

    Opposition to Canadian mining companies rising in Colombia Canadian companies operating in Colombia are more economically powerful than ever before: they partly own and run Colombia’s largest oil pipeline (Talisman), and they are its leading private oil producer (Pacific Rubiales) and its biggest gold mining company (Gran Colombia Gold). With…

  • Why You Should Care About Austerity

    Québec’s government has radically reduced its spending growth because it has decided that we need to tighten our belts collectively. Since spending growth in some areas of healthcare and education is inevitable in order to maintain certain services, drastic cuts must be made elsewhere. The government maintains that it will not impact…

  • Message to BC

    Ontario learned the hard way The recent Ontario provincial budget probably doesn’t sound like exciting summer reading to most people, but British Columbians might want to pay close attention. The political message from the budget is clear: Mike Harris’ so-called “Common Sense Revolution” is nearing the end of the road-just…