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Fast Facts: More at Stake than Cold Beer – Let’s Keep Liquor Sales in the Public Sphere
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press Dec. 12, 2015 The Winnipeg Free Press has devoted a lot of attention recently to the question of whether Manitoba should see more private sector involvement in selling liquor. A recent column by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation draws the conclusion that some issues…
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End of a painful era
The longest election in Canadian memory has produced a new government and a decisive end to the Harper era. The reasons are not especially complicated: Canadians demanded change in Ottawa, and an end to the “politics of fear and divisiveness,” as Liberal leader Justin Trudeau told us repeatedly along the…
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Fast Facts: Canadian publishers in jeopardy
A 2015 EKOS Research study found most Canadians see books as having strong social benefits in terms of quality of life, social cohesion and economic strength. If we want to tell our own stories and preserve our own history, government investment in publishing is essential. But over the past 10…
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Communities impacted by resource development are fighting back: government should take notice
Whether it’s mining, logging, dams or pipelines, the people living closest to resource industry developments typically face the highest health, economic and environmental risks. Such inequities will only deepen if liquefied natural gas plants materialize on BC’s coast. Sadly, the provincial government often behaves as though northern British Columbians are…
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Provincial tuition fee policies more about managing public opinion than accessibility: study
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA—On average, tuition and compulsory fees for Canadian undergraduate students have tripled between 1993-94 and 2015-16 and will continue to rise over the next four years, from $6,971 this fall to an estimated $7,590 in 2018-19, says a study released today by the Canadian Centre…
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Bucking the Trend: Manitoba Defends Workers’ Pensions
Each day Canadian newspapers carry a version of the same story: working Canadians are not prepared for retirement. Statisticians and economists who look at the problem conclude that about half of middle-class baby boomers will experience a steep drop in living standards when they retire. They also show that with…
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Low-carbon urban infrastructure: a view from Vancouver
I have a new case study (full pdf; summary article from the publishers) out as part of the Economists for Equity and Environment‘s Future Economy Initiative. I look at the City of Vancouver’s Neighbourhood Energy Utility (NEU), a low-carbon district energy system that hits a sweet spot of clean energy, local control, and…
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Ok, Let’s Talk.
Yesterday was Bell Let’s Talk Day 2015. You might have heard about it. According to Bell, a record 122,150,772 Bell Let’s Talk tweets, texts, calls, and shares on January 28, 2015 translated into a new donation of $6,107,538 to mental health initiatives. Let’s Talk is a multi-year campaign focused on…
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Work Life: A living wage lifts workers and the economy
As first published in the Winnipeg Free Press Oct 2, 2014. As of October 1st, minimum wage earners in Manitoba will earn $10.70 per hour – just over $20,800 annually. This leaves a family of four, with both parents working, with an income that is more than $1,500 below the…
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Labour unions in the 21st century?
The preservation of past experience in cultural memory too often fails to stick, with serious social consequences. Without an adequate understanding of the past we are bound to misunderstand the present. And misunderstanding the present hampers our ability to realize future goals. But can we forget something we did not…
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Understanding Union Security and its Effects
Download 606.88 KB20 pages Canadian labour law has ensured that all workers who benefit from collective agreements contribute to the cost of maintaining those agreements through union dues. Today the security of unions is under attack within Ontario, and elsewhere in Canada. This paper looks at how Conservative proposals, imported…
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Our Schools/Our Selves: Summer 2001
Ontario Students as a Means to the Government’s Ends In high-risk sites like Ontario, traditional forms of liberal education are being replaced by policies mandating teaching and learning activities that are aimed at serving the utilitarian needs of a corporate and globalised marketplace. In effect, educational policy making in the…