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  • How Canada’s WTO “victory” on food labelling undermines BC’s local food efforts

    In December Canada once again made international headlines by defeating the Americans at the World Trade Organization, and, paradoxically, made it harder to promote and protect British Columbia’s agrifood sector.  After a seven-year dispute, the United States was forced to repeal legislation requiring country of origin labelling (COOL) for muscle cuts…

  • March 2006: Empty Promises, Dashed Hopes

    10 years after Beijing conference, women are still waiting In the plenary session of the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing more than 10 years ago, this proclamation was made by the Tanzanian chairperson, Gertrude Mongella: “A revolution has begun! There is no turning back!” All the delegates from…

  • September 2005: The Recurrence of Fascism

    Today’s corporate dominance eerily similar to pre-fascist era in Europe Observing political and economic discourse in North America since the 1970s leads to an inescapable conclusion: the vast bulk of legislative activity favours the interests of large commercial enterprises. Big business is very well off, and successive Canadian and U.S.…

  • Big budget surplus a good time to bridge the gender gap

    Budgets are normally presented as though they affect most people in the same way. They don’t. In recognition of this fact, “gender budgeting” has become fairly widespread throughout the world in recent years. The point of these budgets is to examine how different measures affect women and men in distinct…

  • July 2005: Peak Oil and the End of Globalization

    U.S. dependence on oil drives its efforts to control what’s left When Paul Martin met with George Bush and Vicente Fox in Texas last March to chart further continental integration (while Martin’s neo-liberal competitor for the Liberal Party crown, John Manley, was pushing for even further subordination of Canada’s economic…

  • December 2005: Protecting Parental Leave Benefits

    Supreme Court ruling supports renewed calls for EI reform In a rare unanimous decision, the Supreme Court of Canada recently confirmed the constitutionality of the federal government’s provision of parental benefits under Employment Insurance (EI). The federal government now has no excuse not to do a better job of ensuring…

  • In whose hands is our energy policy?

    Energy ministers from across Canada recently met in St. Andrews, N.B. Media coverage of the meeting noted that the agenda included golf and a lobster dinner. Fair enough – the ministers are entitled to some rest and relaxation. But what really caught my attention was that the gala event was…

  • Getting rid of the Reference Drug Program would be a costly mistake

    New CCPA report says program saves Pharmacare millions and should be retained CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says a study it released today shows BC’s Reference Drug Program has been effective at slowing down the growth of prescription drug expenditures, without…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    Time to draw a line in the sand

    NAFTA and the softwood lumber dispute In the lead-up to the NAFTA leaders’ meeting in Waco Texas, former free trade negotiator Gordon Ritchie called on Prime Minister Martin to ask US President George Bush to muzzle his trade officials who, he said, are threatening to destroy the NAFTA dispute settlement…

  • Social Watch

    Growing regionalism blocks poverty reduction: Report

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA — After 15 years of repeated promises to reduce poverty at the national and international level, Canada is stalled on its mission – thanks to growing regionalism, says a new report. Divided and Distracted, a Social Watch report from Canada released today,…

  • Education Project

    Our Schools/Our Selves: Spring 2002

    Tales From the Crypt or Writing the Ontario Canadian and World Studies The nightmare began innocuously enough. Despite my best instincts and the negative opinion I, along with most teachers, had of the Harris government I accepted the role of co-project manager to write the Ontario, Canadian and World Studies…

  • September 2005: Selling Sickness

    Drug companies profit hugely from creating “diseases,” then the “cures” How the World’s Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies are Turning Us All into Patients by Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels (Greystone, 2005) Review by Abby Lippman “At the end of times the merchants of the world will deceive the nations through their…