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  • Government Assaults on Unions: The Economic History and the Consequences

    In the early 1980s, the world was gripped by recession. Following the troubled years of the 1970s, there was considerable worry throughout the developed world that we had entered a period of endemic stagnation. The real problem, it was claimed, was that the western economies had lost their ability to…

  • 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: Caring for Home Care in Manitoba

    In January, the government released the Toews report The Future of Home Care Services in Manitoba. The report was commissioned by the NDP government in 2015 as a follow up to an earlier report on Home Care (HC) from the province’s Auditor General. The two most compelling challenges identified in…

  • The Great Log Export Drain: BC government pursues elusive LNG dreams as more than 3,600 forest industry jobs lost to raw log exports

    First of Two Parts Its members include the most powerful players in the province’s forest industry, companies that do the vast majority of all logging on British Columbia’s coast. Its website boasts of “innovative, high-tech” companies whose workers turn out “a growing array of forest and wood products.” But in…

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    Tax fairness in BC? Hardly

    Tax cuts disproportionately benefitted the richest 1% of British Columbians, write @IglikaIvanova & @1alexhemingway: https://t.co/iZbcztdPem pic.twitter.com/BavNnT2WWp — The CCPA–BC (@CCPA_BC) February 16, 2017 As we wait to hear more about the tax cuts coming in BC Budget 2017, it is important to remember what has happened to our provincial tax…

  • June 2007: The Wrong “Solution” To Pollution

    Nuclear power won’t clean up the Alberta tar sands The very biggest environmental issue in Canada is the Alberta oil sands project. Though only partially developed as yet, it covers 138,000 square kilometers of northern Alberta–an area as large as the state of Florida. At yet, only the surface oil…

  • Can cooperatives humanize the economy?

    Book Review of Humanizing the Economy: Cooperatives in the Age of Capital, by John Restakis, New Society Publishers, 2010. The economy is about business, right? Sure, we have a dynamic mixed economy, and most people support decent social programs and government intervention to protect the environment or to improve living…

  • Silencing Dissent: The Conservative Record

    Over the past five years, exercise of the fundamental freedom of speech in Canada has been curbed and discouraged by a federal government increasingly intolerant of even the mildest criticism or dissent. Particularly affected have been organizations dependent on government funding which advocate for human rights and women’s equality. Their…

  • How green are BC’s climate policies?

    One of the most striking contradictions in BC’s climate action plan is the oil and gas industry. Greg Amos in The Hook, quotes our “green” premier out on the campaign trail in the northeast: “Let me tell you what’s happened in the energy industry in British Columbia in the last…

  • Alternative Federal Budget

    Il faut oublier les chasseurs, créer des emplois et non faire la guerre, selon un centre de réflexion

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA – Le Centre canadien de politiques alternatives exhorte Ottawa à répondre aux préoccupations financières réelles des Canadiens au lieu de les laisser tomber dans la tempête politique qui se prépare à cause du budget fédéral et d’élections possibles. Avec la publication de…

  • Death of the Tiger: A Cautionary Irish Tale

    The Irish people go to the polls on February 25. The governing Fianna Fail party—that created the fallen Celtic Tiger economic model and is now the object of widespread public outrage—will almost certainly be banished to political wilderness, much like the conservative regime casualties of economic crisis in Greece and…

  • Fast Facts: Reverse the Cuts to Anti-Gang Programs

    Recent reports that federal funding for four anti-gang programs in Winnipeg will end in March raise the issue, yet again, of how our tax dollars are being spent. While concerns about street gangs, crime, and violence in Winnipeg’s inner-city continue to mount, the response of the Harper government is taking…