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  • September 2007: Lessons From the Depression

    Political leadership needed to forge environmental New Deal In his otherwise excellent report, The Economics of Climate Change, Britain’s Sir Nicolas Stern states that climate change “is the greatest and widest ranging market failure ever seen.” Close, but no cigar. At least, not yet. The science and the seriousness of…

  • Let’s Not Go There Again

    You would think that the fiasco of the government forcing BC Hydro in recent years to buy run-of-river and other IPP supply that it didn’t need, resulting in losses of hundreds of millions of dollars per year, would have put that unfortunate policy on the back burner for a long…

  • Fast Facts The First Rung on the Ladder: community-based literacy programming in public housing complexes

    A wealth of evidence—both global and local—confirms the value of literacy and the importance of programs that promote literacy. This is especially the case for low-income individuals and communities, for whom gains in literacy can be transformative. Manitoba has embraced this truth by laying the groundwork for real gains in…

  • UNSPUN: Federal Budget 2016 – What it means for Manitoba

    On March 22 the federal Liberals delivered a budget that signals the end of a long period of austerity.  Past Liberal and Conservative federal governments dramatically decreased their support in key areas such as healthcare, housing, First Nations, education and environmental stewardship. With the exception of healthcare, where this budget…

  • Fast Facts: Critics Wrong – Economy Strong

    Although the 137-page fiscal update is much shorter in detail than a full budget would be, there are enough broad strokes to give us a bit of an economic picture. And that picture generated no shortage of criticism. No government should be immune from criticism and the checks and balances…

  • Education Property Tax Cuts Worsen Income Inequality in Manitoba

    Download 621.06 KB4 pages The Education Property Tax Reduction Act will increase income inequality in Manitoba and will not help those impacted by COVID. Property taxes are levied proportionally to wealth in real estate, and so when properly administered can be an effective, progressive and fair way to bring in…

  • Good Economy Project

    Emmanuel Saez on income and wealth inequality

    Download the slides (PDF)   Emmanuel Saez discusses income and wealth inequality—including the role of technology and globalization, education, government regulations and tax policy—based on evidence gathered by a collective group of researchers in the World Top Incomes Database. The database, which Saez developed jointly with Thomas Piketty, measures income…

  • June 2004: The Indymedia Phenomenon

    The revolution won’t be televised, but it might be uploaded Wih the rise of “networked” society, we have seen the emergence of democratic social movements with a distinctly global orientation. Such movements are increasingly informed by, and dependent upon, information technologies and computer-mediated communication for their organizational activities, their ability…

  • Fast Facts: Seeking a just recovery from COVID-19

    First published in the Winnipeg Free Press April 6, 2021 COVID-19 has been a fundamental shock to households, communities and countries globally. Manitoba, like other jurisdictions, faces significant public health, economic and social challenges. While vaccines may get the public health crisis under control in the coming year, the social…

  • Fast Facts: Building a community of opportunity and hope

    Lord Selkirk Park Recent events in Gilbert Park have cast Winnipeg’s North End public housing complexes in a negative light. An opposition politician has called Gilbert Park a “ghetto” and “crime incubator”. Some poverty ‘experts’, in statements attributed to them by the media, have implied that conditions in public housing…

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    Food security in BC? Don’t count on it.

    If California’s farmers ever run out of the water needed to irrigate their crops, we’ll be in for a rude awakening. With 70 per cent of British Columbia’s imported fruits and vegetables coming from the sunny US state, any climatic disaster there would almost certainly result in dramatic run-ups in food…

  • The sound of silence

    Weeks stretch to months, months to years as BC government clamps down on information  When debate on the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Amendment Act began last fall Stephanie Cadieux, then Liberal MLA for Surrey-Cloverdale, was among many to note how British Columbians are waiting longer and longer…