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  • More privatization is not the answer

    More privatization is not the answer for BC health care

    Leading up to the 2024 election, the BC Conservatives are promising major health care reforms, in particular a greater role for private health care. More choice and competition, they claim, will “unleash the power of private-sector innovation” and reduce wait times. There’s good reason to be skeptical of such claims. .…

  • UNSPUN 2019: Meth, Harm Reduction spark debate this Manitoba Election

    Recent attention to issues of addiction in Manitoba has shifted from concern over opioids to methamphetamine use. Questions about government response have remained a hot topic during the run up to the provincial election. As a result harm reduction is starting to become a part of the public discourse. The…

  • Commentaires sur la Loi sur l’intégrité des élections (C-23)

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  • The public interest in a maze

    Canada, patents, and the Harvard Mouse Look up “patent” in your dictionary and you’ll find “plain and evident” among its definitions. But because patents seethe with contradictions, questions surrounding them are hardly plain, and their answers hardly evident. Patents shrink one public domain (by granting exclusionary rights to inventors) while…

  • Fast Facts: Red River College Decision Part of a Pattern of Bad Decision-Making

    First published in the Winnipeg Free Press August 12, 2019 The recent decision to end the tenure of Paul Vogt as President and CEO of Red River College (RRC) has been met with widespread condemnation from some surprising sources. The consultant hired by the provincial government to review the governance,…

  • Oil train
    Corporate Mapping Project

    Un nouveau rapport met en lumière l’état de l’industrie des combustibles fossiles dans l’Est du Canada – une région négligée dans les débats sur les politiques énergétiques

    CLIQUEZ ICI POUR CONSULTER LE RAPPORT [HALIFAX/ Kjipuktuk, 6 juin 2023]:  Bien que l’Est du Canada soit fortement investi dans la production pétrolière et gazière, cette région est souvent omise des discussions sur la politique énergétique, qui s’axe surtout sur les provinces de l’Ouest. Un nouveau rapport fait l’état des lieux…

  • Corporate Mapping Project

    Oil Politics in the Patch

    Climate Change Resistance and Cultures of Silence CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT Regina — In the wake of “The Price of Oil” investigation into oil industry impacts in Saskatchewan by the Toronto Star, National Observer and Global News, the realities of living with the health and environmental effects…

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    Fracking, earthquakes and hydro dams? Don’t worry. We have an understanding.

    This is the second of two posts. Read the first here. Efforts by BC Hydro to ban potentially destructive natural gas company fracking operations in the vicinity of its biggest dams fall well short of what an Alberta hydro provider has achieved, raising questions about why British Columbia isn’t doing…

  • Out of the Closet on Site C

    For years, successive BC governments have forbidden any new large-scale hydro dams. When I was on the BC Hydro Board of Directors in the mid-1990s, the Board passed a motion that all government land-holdings associated with Site C should be sold. The BC Hydro Board was against building Site C,…

  • Site C

    I recall talking to a senior BC Hydro planner a number of years ago who mapped out a very sensible way to develop the BC Hydro system. Retain the Burrard gas-fired thermal power plant as a back-up for extreme drought, when electricity supply at the hydro facilities on the Peace…

  • The Patriarchal Illusion of Control

    Ruinous drive for power and control primarily masculine The poster publicizing David Suzuki’s 1985 television series A Planet for the Taking stated: “We have long thought of ourselves as masters of the natural world, but now that drive to dominate and control is having dangerous consequences. Can we change the…

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    Manitoba is worse off thanks to the new federal budget

    A synopsis of the new federal budget implications for the middle province

    The budget tabled by the federal government on November 4 sets out a path that will worsen income inequality in Manitoba and squeezes the provincial government’s finances. The federal budget is focused on attracting $500 billion in private investment with only a handful of initiatives to help those most impacted…