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  • Fast Facts: Health Care Blind Spot

    First published in the Winnipeg Free Press on January 17, 2018 Manitoba’s healthcare system is undergoing major changes. Many Manitobans fear that the changes are more about saving money than improving health and that privatization of parts of the health care system may be a slippery slope towards the erosion…

  • Imagining A Moral Economy

    Transition to carbon-free economy requires moral leadership “If it is wrong to wreck the climate, then it is wrong to profit from that wreckage.” —From the mission statement of the Fossil Free movement. Rarely are we invited to consider ethical questions of right and wrong in matters of economic development, particularly…

  • Taking stock of COVID-19 economic policy measures in BC

    A multitude of measures have been tabled by the provincial and federal governments to prop up workers and an economy reeling from mandated closures of businesses brought about by physical distancing measures. Spring 2020 will be a period economic historians will be writing about for decades to come. Most economists…

  • October 2006: We Didn’t Really Say “No” to Missile Defence

    Canadian complicity and participation in BMD continues Contrary to a widely popular feel-good myth, Canada did not reject participation in the U.S.-led “Ballistic Missile Defence” (BMD) weapons program. Unfortunately, BMD is still very much alive and well and thriving in Canada. In fact, Canada has been complicit in BMD for…

  • Une étude dévoile les villes canadiennes où les frais de garde sont les plus élevés et les plus faibles en 2017

    OTTAWA — Une nouvelle étude publiée aujourd’hui par le Centre canadien de politiques alternatives (CCPA) fait le point sur les villes au Canada où les services de garde d’enfants sont les plus chers et les moins chers. Les tarifs ont augmenté plus rapidement que l’inflation dans 71 % des villes depuis…

  • High CEO pay shatters previous records, now 227 times more than average worker pay

    C-suite payrolls are so massive they account for at least 40% of some companies’ losses CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA — Canada’s 100 highest paid CEOs made 227 times more than the average worker made in 2018, surpassing all previous records, according to a new report from…

  • Temporary Foreign Worker Program changes – who do they help?

    The Conservative Government’s Minister of Employment and Social Development, Jason Kenney, announced on June 20th 2014 a raft of changes to the federal Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP). The program has attracted controversy since at least 2006, most recently when the CBC reported that MacDonald’s outlets in Victoria were favoring temporary foreign workers…

  • Fast Facts: No Poverty Reduction Strategy in Speech from the Throne

    Tuesday morning, I received a phone call from a Make Poverty History Manitoba member. He lives on a disability benefit that provides him only $180 per month for food and other basic necessities. He wanted to know if he can expect any change soon. I told him we would see…

  • State of play – 3rd party advertising rules and the 2013 provincial election

    BC’s third party election advertising law has been highly controversial since its introduction in 2008. I wrote the following briefing note to help organizations understand if/how the law affects them. BC’s 3rd party election advertising law applies to many many kinds of public communication during a provincial election campaign —…

  • The Harper Government’s War on Science

    Many scientific programs terminated, many scientists fired  Canada’s Information Commissioner, Suzanne Legault, is investigating the muzzling of federal scientists, but far more troubling is the actual elimination of scientific programs and the firing of scientists. On that front, Canada’s federal environmental and oceans science and scientists have taken a terrible…

  • Making Women Count

    New study reveals best and worst cities to be a woman in Canada

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—A new study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) reveals the best and worst cities to be a woman in Canada. According to the study, Québec City is the best city to be a woman and Edmonton is the…

  • Ten suggestions to lead a better life without growth (part 1)

    Two weeks ago the degrowth research group Collectif de recherche interuniversitaire et transdisciplinaire sur les impasses de la croissance (CRITIC) held its first colloquium, entitled “How much should we keep on digging? The limits to growth”, at HEC Montréal. The degrowth movement voiced very relevant critiques concerning the economics of accumulation,…