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  • The No-Nonsense Guide to Equality

    Here’s book on equality lauded by Spirit Level co-author Book review: The No-Nonsense Guide to Equality, by Danny Dorling, published in Canada by New Internationalist Publications Ltd. and Between the Lines, Toronto and Ottawa, 2012; 176 pages, $16 * * * Richard Wilkinson, co-author of the celebrated book The Spirit…

  • Fast Facts: The Social Determinants of Health in Manitoba

    What we know about health inequity in Manitoba and what we can do about it Why are some people, and more particularly some groupings of people, healthier than others? A large part of the answer depends on a range of variables that have little to do with life-style choices like…

  • The “New” Saskatchewan: Oklahoma North?

    Of the litany of proposed changes contained in the Saskatchewan government’s Consultation Paper on the Renewal of Labour Legislation in Saskatchewan, the most pernicious is the suggestion that employees be allowed to opt out of paying union dues, yet still receive the full benefits of union membership. This idea is dangerously reminiscent of U.S. right-to-work (RTW) laws…

  • Problems for the South Fraser Perimeter Road P3?

    There are some interesting recent developments on the South Fraser Perimeter Road (SFPR) public private partnership project.  A press release issued Friday afternoon announced the successful bidder in response to a Requests for Proposal.  The results may not be what we were led to expect. The SFPR project is part…

  • Harper in the Arctic — the End of Ice Tour?

     human security means protecting fundamental freedoms – freedoms that are the essence of life. It means protecting people from critical (severe) and pervasive (widespread) threats and situations… It means creating political, social, environmental, economic, military and cultural systems that together give people the building blocks of survival, livelihood, and dignity. …

  • Resource Economics Project (BC)

    BC MLAs take wrong approach to timber supply crisis

    Ever since mid May, when a special committee of the provincial legislature was appointed to address a looming “timber supply” crisis, questions have arisen about what the committee would say about one community in particular. That community is Burns Lake where, in January, a violent explosion and fire leveled the…

  • Fast Facts: It’s Budget Time Again

    A glimmer of hope and a healthy dose of skepticism On April 17th Minister Stan Struthers will release details of how the Province will manage our money this year.  Here is how the process will unfold. A few pre-budget day announcements will be, or have been, made to manage expectations…

  • Victoria’s billion dollar P3 decision

    On March 24th the Victoria area’s Capital Regional District (CRD) is going to make a billion dollar decision.  The province has ordered the CRD to end its controversial practice of pumping raw sewage into the ocean.  But it has also ordered the CRD to consider using a public private partnership…

  • Growing Gap

    Federal budget worsens inequality, high unemployment future

    The 2012 federal budget, which purports to deliver “jobs, growth and long-term prosperity,” does nothing of the kind. Make no mistake, this is an austerity budget— spending cuts outpace new measures 7:1— that worsens income and inter-generational inequality, destroys jobs and locks in a slow growth, high unemployment future. Let’s…

  • A budget that screws the planet for short-term profits

    First off, the 2012 federal budget makes no upfront claim to be a budget. Indeed, the cover states only “Economic Action Plan 2012: Jobs, Growth and Long-Term Prosperity.” While we have been accustomed in recent years to budgets with their own titles, this one does not actually say “Budget” anywhere.…

  • The Great Natural Gas Footrace: Where Have We Seen This Before?

    Several weeks ago, some running buddies of mine – two fine chaps working in the provincial civil service – invited me to speak on a panel at the annual Association of BC Forest Professionals meetings in Victoria. I had the good fortune to be joined by Bruce Fraser, former chair…

  • Winnipeg City Council Misses the Bus – Again

    Council’s recent decision to increase bus fare by a total of 25 cents by June 2012 adds to a growing list of wrong-headed policies moving the city further away from the desires Winnipeggers expressed in OurWinnipeg, the City’s own master development plan. Not only does the policy quash hopes for…