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  • Let’s make day care a great place to learn

    CANADIANS ARE increasingly aware of how important the early years are to the development of children. We know that children’s future educational and career opportunities are influenced by their experiences as young children at home and in the care of others. Unfortunately, I think many of us still view child…

  • Supreme Court health ruling oblivious to trade treaty threats

    Dr. Jacques Chaoulli, the Quebec physician whose complaint led the Supreme Court to strike down Quebec’s ban on private health insurance, celebrated his victory by going to Washington to be feted by conservative U.S. think-tanks.  He personally invited U.S. health care corporations to come to Canada. The Supreme Court somehow…

  • Economic Security Project (BC)

    Inequality on the rise in BC

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) BC’s rich got richer and our poor got poorer, according to a new report on inequality. And that is before the sweeping policy changes undertaken by the current provincial government. New Perspectives on Income Inequality in BC, released today by the Canadian…

  • Supreme Court ruling bolsters need for public solutions

    Anatole France, the famous French historian, in 1894 noted the irony that “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.” Yesterday the Supreme Court of Canada offered us a similar bit…

  • December 2004: The Right is Wrong and the Left is Right

    Public opinion in Canada, as in the U.S., pulled to the right Reading Lewis Lapham’s chilling account in Harper’s of how public opinion in the U.S. was dragged to the reactionary right—and the similar account by Eric Alterman and Paul McLeary that you’ll find on Pages 8-10—I gave thanks that…

  • October 2004: “Tax Me If You Can!”

    Tax havens, loopholes let corporations pay little or no taxes Last April, the General Accounting Office (GOA)—a kind of business inspectorate that works for the U.S. Congress—dropped something of a bombshell when it announced that two-thirds of the companies operating in the United States paid no federal taxes on their…

  • September 2004: A New “Social Architecture” For Canada?

    Planned redesign of social programs could spur privatization Policy-makers are quietly and stealthily planning to redesign Canada’s social programs—or, in the jargon so popular in social policy circles, they are trying to develop a new “social architecture” for Canada. And, no, it has nothing to do with the recent election—although,…

  • Ontario Alternative Budget

    Park the ideology and protect the services, says Ontario Alternative Budget Analysis

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. n its annual pre-budget analysis, the Ontario Alternative Budget Working Group has a simple message for the Harris Government: “Park the ideology and call off the dogs. Put the corporate tax cuts on hold. And put a stop to the attacks on education, health care,…

  • July 2004: Let’s Learn from F.D.R.

    Our jobless youth could be doing needed environmental repair work Here we are in the summer of 2004, fortunate to be living in one of the world’s most resource-endowed countries, and yet many of our students have been unable to find paid employment to fund their college or university education.…

  • A new CCPA study

    A National Pharmacare Plan: Combining Efficiency and Equity CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT Ottawa–Canada can afford to extend Medicare to cover pharmaceuticals, and should do so by introducing a national program to cover drug costs, says the author of a new CCPA study. Dr. Joel Lexchin maintains that…

  • What do you want the internet to be?

    There’s a new Force in town, but it won’t be playing on screens of your local cinema. Instead, it is developing strategies to bring your local cinema to you – and your school and your hospital, too. The new National Broadband Task Force, under the guidance of Industry Canada, will…

  • Economic Security Project (BC)
    Public Interest Research Project (BC)

    BC’s social housing shell game

    It seems barely a day goes by without a news story about BC’s hot real estate market and booming residential construction. People are buying up homes faster than you can say interest rate hike, and as prices rise, home ownership is becoming more expensive — and elusive — for many…