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  • 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…

  • Pénurie ou pas, le Canada est tenu de maintenir ses exportations de gaz naturel et de pétrole vers les États-Unis

    CLIQUEZ ICI POUR CONSULTER LE RAPPORT. EDMONTON – En vertu de l’ALÉNA, même si le Canada est confronté à une pénurie en gaz naturel et qu’il importe 49 % du pétrole qu’il consomme, il lui est défendu de diminuer ses exportations actuelles de pétrole et de gaz naturel vers les…

  • Fast Facts: Réseau de santé « parallèle » : le loup dans la bergerie

    Cet article de Fast Facts a été publié le 19 février dans le Winnipeg Free Press. Presque en même temps, les médias parlaient du Rapport Castonguay au Québec. Ce rapport faisait suite à la décision rendue par une faible majorité en Cour suprême, l’année précédente, et qui ouvrait la voie…

  • Mettre fin à la violence faite aux femmes

    Comprendre les liens qui existent entre la violence directe et la violence structurale Le massacre de l’École Polytechnique à Montréal, il y a 18 ans, n’est malheureusement pas un cas isolé. Tous les 6 décembre, nous honorons la mémoire des quatorze femmes assassinées à l’occasion de la Journée nationale de commémoration et…

  • 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…

  • Public Interest Research Project (BC)

    Government Not Enforcing Health Laws

    The provincial government recently stated that user charges for emergency health care services provided at the new False Creek Urgent Care Centre are legal. Minister of Health George Abbott says he would not have any basis for legal action because the doctors providing urgent care at the clinic are from…

  • February 2007: “More Time For Daddy”

    Quebec leads the way with its new parental leave policy Leave related to the birth or adoption of a child includes maternity leave, paternity leave, and parental leave. In Canada, there was a change in parental leave in 2001, which basically extended the leave from six months to approximately one…

  • Labour Matters

    Work Life: City of Winnipeg should study benefits of in-house waste collection

    This fall Winnipeg City Council will determine the future of waste and recycling collection in our city.  Current contracts with Emterra Environmental and Progressive Waste Services will expire in 2017.  At least eight private companies have expressed interest in putting forward a proposal, and it will be up to council…

  • April 2006: Americanizing the Restriction of Canadians’ Rights

    Security overtaking trade as driver of “deep integration” At the time the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and later the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) were negotiated, Canadians were told that they could enjoy the benefits of free trade with the United States without losing the benefits of sovereignty. Neither…