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  • Occupy Canada Resources from the CCPA Vault

    With increased attention on the 99% emerging from the Occupy Wall Street movement, it’s time to open the CCPA vault on the issue. www.growinggap.ca is our dedicated website on income inequality, and it’s a treasure trove of facts and arguments documenting worsening income inequality in Canada and offering solutions to help…

  • Are the Top 1% Just Lucky?

    I expect some folks who oppose the Occupy movement will weigh in on merit – that the top 1% are deserving of their riches because they include people who pay a lot of wages and salaries for ordinary folk. That is, the story of hard-working, risk-taking entrepreneurs who should not…

  • Recent Immigrants and the Crisis

    It is no secret that times of  high unemployment and precarious work are especially tough for new and recent entrants to the job market, notably young workers and recent immigrants. The latter were especially hard hit in the recession and slow recovery of the 1990s, when new immigrants had great…

  • The Latin American Revolution (III)

    The U.S. Empire strikes back through a coup in Honduras At 1 a.m. on June 28, Manuel Zelaya, the elected progressive President of Honduras, was roused from his bed at gunpoint by masked Honduran army soldiers, who kidnapped him in his pajamas and put him on a plane to Costa…

  • The Sky is Falling, the Sky is Falling… or is it?

    New CCPA Nova Scotia Report on the NDP’s Independent Review of Finances READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Halifax, N.S. – Today’s launch of the interim report of the government’s “independent” review of the province’s finances is an exercise in cynical political manipulation, says a new report issued today by the…

  • Growing Gap

    Inequality is bad for business

    In August Canadian Business magazine published my article on why inequality is bad for business.  It is produced in full below. Last week the International Monetary Fund, not known for left-leaning views, released a series of articles entitled “Why Inequality Throws Us Off Balance”. One of the papers is by Andrew…

  • Less on their Plate

    Canada’s poorest people facing a frightful food crisis “The Federal Reserve has done, and will continue to do, everything possible within the limits of its authority to assist in restoring our nation to financial stability…” —Ben Bernanke, U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman. * * * It took us far too long to…

  • Recession Ahead?

    TD Economics yesterday released a rather gloomy report, putting the odds of a US recession at 40%, and arguing that that Canadian economy is more vulnerable to recession than it was in 2008.  It highlights reduced capacity for governments to respond given that interest rates are already very low, and given…

  • Business dominated think tank winds up with report showing little progress in BC

    The British Columbia Progress Board came out with its last report today. Gordon Campbell started the think tank in 2001 and now Christy Clark has ended it. The report shows progress, but often in the wrong direction. You can find the whole report here but it will take patience. It…

  • The Strange Case of Saskatchewan’s Electoral Boundaries

    In the aftermath of the May federal election, many Saskatchewan voters were justifiably surprised by the results. Despite garnering 32.3 % of the total provincial vote, the federal NDP was completely shut-out in our province. Conversely, the Conservatives – with a little over half of the popular vote (56.3%) –…

  • Understanding Québec’s Orange Wave Part Three: What Does the Orange Wave Mean?

    Simon Tremblay-Pepin is a researcher at IRIS, a Montreal-based progressive think tank. In my previous two posts I discussed how neither a rise in left-wing sentiment nor a surge in support for the federalist option caused the “orange wave” in Québec during the last federal election. I will now offer my…

  • Climate Justice Project

    Darkwoods, the murky world of carbon credits and a “carbon neutral” BC government

    It is spun in government press releases as a “first” for any jurisdiction in North America, an achievement that places British Columbia “on the leading edge” of efforts to combat climate change. But scratch the surface just a little and questions arise about the legitimacy of Environment Minister Terry Lake’s…