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  • What’s the Canada-EU trade deal all about?

    Chances are, you’ve heard about the Canada-EU trade deal. It’s hard to miss, what with the federal government hard at work staging photo-ops and events across the country, promoting the deal as a major win. The official sales pitch focuses on the trade aspects of the deal – lowering or…

  • Education Project

    Our Schools/Our Selves: Winter 2001

    Public Education and Moral Monsters: A Conversation with Noam Chomsky It is startling to learn that amidst the volumes of literature which addresses current trends in public education, a serious consideration of the implications of Noam Chomsky’s thought to schooling is almost entirely nonexistent.1 Noam Chomsky is a pioneer in…

  • Falling Behind

    The State of Working Canada, 2000 Download 126.18 KB202 pages Major Findings Long-Term Trends Real GDP per person in Canada – which is divided between households, businesses and governments – grew by an average of just 1.05% per year in the 1990s, down from an annual average increase of 1.9%…

  • Federal Budget 2013: Stubbornness and hidden secrets

    Reactions to the federal budget presented in March differed in Québec in comparison with the rest of the provinces. In this text we will first review the budget as whole before zooming into measures which caused a big uproar in Québec. In its latest budget, the government brought to the…

  • Checks and balances

    Why the Calgary Herald Strike matters Canadians who care about democratic diversity in their daily newspapers should support the striking journalists at the Calgary Herald. Their struggle for reasonable job security and against managerial interference in news decision-making has much more than local significance. If access to a range of…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    Canada-China investment deal deserves greater public scrutiny

    The pending takeover of Canadian oil and gas producer Nexen by the state-owned Chinese National Offshore Oil Corporation is attracting a lot of attention.  There are legitimate questions regarding whether this foreign takeover is in the national interest or to the “net benefit” of Canada.  By contrast, the Canada-China Foreign…

  • Behind the Brain Drain hype

      Those calling for tax cuts for upper-income earners have found a new cause. For the past year, media reports, newspaper columnists and “think tank” studies have all been sounding the alarm. The latest catch-phrase of the neo-conservative project: the Brain Drain. It’s the perfect campaign, really. Rather than appearing…

  • A Tale of Two Austerity Hardliners

    Conservative soul mates, Stephen Harper and British Prime Minister David Cameron, were in Davos, Switzerland a month ago lecturing Eurozone leaders on how to get their collective act together. As they have done since the G-20 meeting in Toronto, both were preaching fiscal austerity as the solution to Europe’s, and…

  • The Harper House Rules: An Intervention

    Stephen: We recognize that no roommate is perfect, and from time to time we have all gotten on each other’s nerves. But you take the cake (and let’s be honest, sharing anything—including cake—is not exactly your thing). Because you have signed a sub-lease with a previous tenant (who, we might…

  • Climate Justice Project
    Growing Gap

    Who Occupies the Sky?

    The Distribution of GHGs in Canada Download 340.23 KB7 pages To create effective policy for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, it is important to identify who is emitting. This study finds that household carbon footprints increase with income and concludes that GHG reduction policies must take inequality into consideration. The authors…

  • Fast Facts: Do Social Mixing Policies Work?

    Does social mixing as public policy result in more equitable cities, more culturally diverse neighbourhoods, and less social marginalization?  These are some of the goals to which social mixing policies have aspired, but they have often fallen drastically short.  In some cases, social mixing policies have even been shown to…

  • Open government a Cabinet secret declares BC Minister

    I love reading Estimates debates in the legislature.  It is a rare opportunity for Opposition critics to grill their assigned Cabinet Ministers at length.  Sometimes the oddest things come out.  On Wednesday the NDP Critic Doug Routley was questioning the Minister for Citizen Services and Open Government Stephanie Cadieux.  It turns…