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  • April 2008: Medicare and Gender

    In looking forward, we need to make health care the objective rather than the problem. And instead of seeing expenditures on health care as the primary issue, we should look at the contributions health care makes, not only to the overall economy and corporations, but also to employment and communities.…

  • Site C in early October, shortly after the Peace River was diverted so that construction could begin of the massive earth-filled dam that will permanently block the river.

    Who’s minding the shop at Site C?

    Appointment of engineer with long-term ties to BC Hydro to be government’s “independent” advisor on dam’s construction raises vexing questions In 2011, his last year as a salaried employee at BC Hydro, Tim Little earned just under $210,000 as the Crown corporation’s chief engineer. The next year, after decades of…

  • Lifting the Bottom, Building a Fair Economy for All Workers in Nova Scotia

    The Nova Scotia government has announced that employers will have to pay minimum wage workers 50 cents more per hour in 2026, with a 25-cent increase effective April 1 and another 25-cent increase in October. The government is following the legislated requirement and recommendation of the Minimum Wage Review Committee…

  • Canada’s black tape economy

    Shift Storm newsletter—June 2026 edition

  • Elbows up: A practical program for Canadian sovereignty

    A playbook for economic self-sufficiency. Because Canada can’t become a sovereign country by doing the same old things.

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    To break housing gridlock, we need to democratize unrepresentative public hearings

    Housing policy has a democracy problem. Amid a housing crisis, highly unrepresentative public hearing processes contribute to land-use decisions that fail to reflect the perspectives and interests of all affected residents. But the right reforms can help deepen democracy and break housing gridlock. At the municipal level, decisions about providing…

  • Living the high life: A record-breaking year for CEO pay in Canada

    By 9:23 a.m. on January 2, 2025 Canada’s 100 highest-paid CEOs had made what the average worker will make all year

  • BC Hydro

    Losing sight at Site C

    Court documents and FOI materials show BC Hydro knew shale would move at troubled construction project, yet Hydro proceeded with river diversion BC Hydro approved the pouring of massive amounts of concrete to build a buttress at its problem-plagued Site C dam project months before a critical drainage tunnel was…

  • Charting a path in uncertain times

    We live in increasingly unsettling times. Two world orders are chafing against each other: the rules-based international order, however imperfect, and the emerging strong man, power brokerage order. These approaches are in friction, and we don’t yet know what the outcome will be. Countries are rapidly trying to forge new…

  • Canada Post is already one of the world’s most cost-effective postal systems

    When we crunch the numbers, we don’t see a system bloated by high costs. And when we look at comparison countries, we see that budget cuts and falling revenue go hand-in-hand

    There’s a common narrative about why Canada Post is in such bad shape—the company’s financial difficulties lie in excessive spending, and that the decline of letter-mail has made Canada Post too costly and wasteful to operate in the digital age. Looking at the plans put forward by the federal government…

  • Alberta’s social studies curriculum pushes religious exceptionalism

    The authors of the curriculum made choices that favour Christianity over other religions, and minimize the historical impact of non-Christians in Alberta.

    The authors of the curriculum made choices that favour Christianity over other religions, and minimize the historical impact of non-Christians in Alberta.

  • The WAC Bennett dam impounds the world’s seventh-largest reservoir. In 2012 a BC Hydro employee speculated a fracking operation may have caused a sudden change in the reservoir’s water levels. Photo: Jayce Hawkins.

    Peace River Frack-Up

    Part 1 of a report on how fracking poses risks to BC Hydro’s Peace River dams Read Part 2 of the report View timeline BC Hydro has known for well over a decade that its Peace Canyon dam is built on weak, unstable rock and that an earthquake triggered by…