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  • Making Women Count

    The best and worst cities in Canada to be a woman in 2017: Study

    OTTAWA—A new study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) uncovers the best and worst cities to be a woman in Canada. Victoria ranks highest, while big gaps in income and employment leave Windsor in last place for the second year in a row. The report, by…

  • Fast Facts: Power to the People?

    “A million workers working for nothing, you better give ‘em what they really own. Power to the people, power to the people, right on.” – John Lennon Anger continues to grow. Nova Scotia Power Inc.’s (NSPI) application for a six per cent rate hike over two years and generous bonuses…

  • Le véritable enjeu des garderies

    Un tout nouveau rapport de l’UNICEF véhicule des renseignements importants pour les Manitobains et Manitobaines. Cette information devrait susciter des mesures immédiates. L’étude, intitulée The Child Care Transition, révèle que les habitants des pays les plus riches de la planète passent une grande partie de leur petite enfance dans un…

  • Fast Facts: Racisme policier

    Depuis le tout premier jour de l’enquête sur le décès de Matthew Dumas, atteint d’une balle tirée par un policier de Winnipeg, maître Robert Tapper prend la peine d’insister sur le fait que la race n’a rien à voir avec la mort de monsieur Dumas. Dans son rapport publié récemment,…

  • Call for better construction worker safety in study released on 28th anniversary of tragic Bentall Tower IV accident

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. VANCOUVER – On the 28th anniversary of the deaths of four construction workers on the Bentall Tower IV, the BC Building Trades Council and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives released a new study calling on the province to significantly improve safety in the construction…

  • Hail to the Chief? Or Bailing on the Chief?

    A leaked provincial Cabinet document indicates that the provincial government is contemplating “suspending” the powers of one of its most powerful public servants in order to expedite a controversial logging program that has raised alarm bells in the professional forestry community. The document leaked late Tuesday afternoon, is the second…

  • Crucial Power Analysis Missing from Courts and the Media in Shafia Murder Case

    On the surface, the Shafia murder case doesn’t look like a “political” issue at all. The horrifying killing of four innocent women by family members near Kingston nearly three years ago could easily be seen as simply the tragic drama of an individual family, not a matter for analysis and…

  • November 2008: The Worst Time For the Worst Government

    Canadians need a rebuilt welfare state, not a broken one Ralph Nader, the famous American consumer advocate and perennial presidential candidate, writing recently in The Nation, recalled sitting at the family dining table when he was growing up and listening to his father talk about capitalism and socialism. “Capitalism will…

  • November 2008: Dark Days

    How four Canadians were tortured in the “fight on terror” Dark Days: The Story of Four Canadians Tortured in the Name of Fighting Terror, by Kerry Pither, Viking Canada, 460 pages, hard cover, $35.00. * * * Much has been written about four Muslim Canadians who were falsely accused of…

  • October 2008: Health Canada and Drug Safety

    More people exposed to unsafe drugs before withdrawal Evaluating the safety of prescription drugs prior to approval and monitoring their safety once they have been marketed should be a major priority in any drug regulatory system. Over the past two decades, about 3-to-4% of the drugs approved by the Therapeutic…

  • A prescription for health care reform: think integration & collaboration

    This morning the CCPA released a new report (co-authored by yours truly) that looks at the thorny issue of health care reform in BC and identifies some practical, evidence-based strategies that have been successful in improving quality of care and controlling costs in other jurisdictions. The paper comes out at…

  • Fast Facts: How NOT to plan a city

    Two issues of concern have recently arisen at City Hall – the twenty-cent transit fare hike — just passed by council — and a new policy to share water and sewer services with exurban municipalities. Both issues are of note for three reasons: there will be significant financial implications for…