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  • Cost of Learning Growing Faster than Incomes

    A new report by the CCPA, Eduflation and the High Cost of Learning, shows that average university tuition bill in Canada has grown three times faster than inflation over the last 20 years. It’s also outpaced the growth of family incomes, making university considerably less affordable for the average Canadian…

  • The Latin American Revolution (Part VIII)

    Nicaragua benefits from joining Latin American Revolution In July 2009, Nicaragua celebrated 30 years of the Sandinista Revolution led by the socialist Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN). In July 1979, the revolution ended 70 years of brutal U.S.-imposed dictatorship. Since 2006, the Sandinistas have been back in power in Nicaragua,…

  • Québec’s Budget: the only option available

    Some present the new PQ government’s first budget as a necessary first step before truly plunging into more liberal measures. In fact, it was out of obligation, they say, that the new Finance Minister, Nicolas Marceau, presented a budget so unexciting, in keeping with its PLQ predecessors. And yet, one…

  • Fast and Loose with Tordon herbicide on the move

    Our family business includes growing bedding plants. In the spring of 2010 every tomato, pepper and marigold we started curled up grotesquely and died. After weeks of trying new fixes and consulting with a plant pathologist, we discovered that the culprit was in our compost.  It looked like herbicide damage so…

  • December 2005: The Right to Privacy—A New Oxymoron?

    Our privacy shield is getting badly battered on every front Privacy is an extremely complex human value, but it boils down to the need and “right to be let alone”–to be free of unwarranted intrusions into our daily lives, 24/7. Think of privacy as a cultural and legal shield protecting…

  • Will the Province Protect the Little Saskatchewan River?

    The beautiful Little Saskatchewan River (LSR), recognized as a unique habitat for endangered, at-risk and common species, winds its way through Keesekoowenin First Nation and the towns of Minnedosa, Rapid City and Rivers in southwest Manitoba.  It empties into the Assiniboine River about 6 miles west of the City of…

  • Killer Pensions

    Pension funds force Canadians to invest in war industries In the microcosm of our daily lives, many Canadians make politically-conscious choices about what to buy. Whether it’s drinking fair trade tea or coffee, using eco-friendly cleaning products, eating locally-produced food, avoiding clothes made in sweatshops, or refusing to buy war-toys…

  • Right-to-Work: The (Ayn?) Rand Formula

    There’s reluctance among Canadian proponents to call for it by name. But Right-to-Work (longer, harder, without representation or recourse, for less money and fewer sick days or pee breaks) seems to be the flavour du jour amongst…ahem…politicians of a certain age. (By which I mean the Age of Dickens. Pip-pip, cheerio, y’all.)…

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    LNG’s big lie

    The federal government is seeking to use a clause in the Paris Agreement on climate change to get emissions credits for exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Asian countries. This plan is nonsensical for a number of reasons, but at its heart is the “big lie” that LNG will…

  • Beware the Canadian Austerity Model

    Europeans should shun Paul Martin’s deficit-cutting ways Paul Martin was Canada’s Minister of Finance from 1993 to 2003, and then served a short term as Prime Minister. He spoke on Canada’s  debt reduction strategy in the 1990s to a recent Public Services Summit organized by the Guardian newspaper in the…

  • Homelessness-Moving toward real solutions

    This week, as we think about homelessness in our communities, let us commit ourselves to solutions.  Real solutions.  Beyond the spontaneous generosity of bus drivers or the fundraising of CEOs who will be sleeping out downtown.  While these actions bring attention to homelessness, they do not address systemic issues that…

  • Time for an adult conversation on the fallout from the petro-boom

    Thomas Mulcair’s claim that the Canadian manufacturing sector has been adversely affected by fallout from the Alberta petro-boom— through a mechanism known to economists as “Dutch disease”—set off a firestorm of strident attacks from Conservative politicians, Western premiers, and the media commentariat.  Mulcair raises a legitimate and empirically defensible—albeit sensitive—public…