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  • The false economy of BC Budget 2012: deficit exaggerated to avoid spending on real problems

    Today’s BC budget was simply titled Budget 2012. It broke with the tradition of ambitious-sounding titles we’ve seen in the last decade (such as 2010’s Building a Prosperous British Columbia budget), but that’s about all the change you’ll notice from the previous administration’s budgets. Despite the fact that this was…

  • Low income earners in Nova Scotia need a raise

    It’s time for Nova Scotians working for the minimum wage to get a big raise.  A substantial increase in the wage will go some way to addressing poverty experienced by  low income workers and households in Nova Scotia.  It would stimulate the provincial economy and contribute to productivity growth at…

  • Climate Justice Project

    Electricity conservation efforts should include high prices for large consumers, protection for low-income households

    If BC is going to meet its climate action targets, the province needs to shift away from natural gas and rely instead on clean electricity. Coupled with aggressive conservation and energy efficiency investments, this transition could be the source of new green jobs, particularly in the residential housing sector. The…

  • December 2005: The “Big Business Bang” Theory

    Social, economic, environmental ills all have the same cause After nearly 12 years of editing and writing articles for The CCPA Monitor—about 3,000 of them so far—I’ve come to divide our contributors into two broad categories. Finding suitable one-word labels for them, however, is difficult without being guilty of generalizing.…

  • Poor in Saskatchewan need more than T.E.A.

    Province’s Building Independence Program forces the poor into “low wage” trap READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. REGINA–Monday, October 17th has been declared International Day for the Eradication of Poverty by the United Nations. However, anti-poverty groups and researchers at the University of Regina say Saskatchewan has lost a significant opportunity…

  • The Latin American Revolution (Part X)

    Peruvian election win latest triumph for left-wing reformers Ollanta Humala’s victory in the Peruvian election held on June 5 is the latest triumph for the Latin American Revolution. Humala, a progressive ex-army officer, was elected President as leader of the Nationalist Party. This brings to eleven the number of left-wing…

  • Fast Facts: Sustainable health care begins with the social determinants of health

    It’s time to get it right On May 13, 2011 the Conference Board of Canada announced the formation of the Canadian Alliance for Sustainable Health Care (CASHC) to “provide Canadian business leaders and policy makers with insightful, forward-looking, quantitative analysis of the sustainability of the Canadian health-care system and all…

  • New CIDA Reforms Risk Excluding the Poorest of the Poor

    In June 2001, the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) released a policy document proposing distinct new terms for development aid. The report, called “Strengthening Aid Effectiveness,” outlines a new direction for CIDA and new terms of reference for distributing aid.[1] On the one hand, it ties aid to global security,…

  • Healthy eating put out of reach for the poor

    Remember the Premier’s “Great Golden Goal” (G3?) about healthy eating? True, we don’t  hear so much about it these days. But it was a laudable goal. Eating a healthy diet is important if we are to improve the overall health of the population, and thereby help to slow rising health…

  • October 2002: The Ravaging of Africa

    Western neo-colonialism fuels wars, plundering of resources The G8 Summit held in Kananaskis in June, pledged $6 billion dollars a year in so-called aid to Africa by 2006. The low figure caused Phil Twyford of Oxfam to say “We’re extremely disappointed by this wasted opportunity. They’re offering peanuts to Africa…

  • Economic Security Project (BC)

    Investing in education for low-income adults pays off

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) The province must invest in education programs for low-income adults with upgrading needs if it wants achieve its goal of making BC the best-educated and most literate jurisdiction in North America. Shauna Butterwick, an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Studies…

  • Barbarism Lite

    Political assault on social rights is worsening inequality Looking back to the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 60 years ago, we can now see that, at least in the North Atlantic world, the four decades that followed World War II were the Golden Age for ordinary people,…