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  • UNSPUN: Four Political Platforms on Poverty

    Manitobans rate themselves to be a generous andcaring society. When natural disasters strike, we are the first to respond. Manitobans are Canada’s most reliable donors to causes both at home and abroad. So how is it that poverty continues to afflict more than 140,000 Manitobans, including 40,000 children? Quite simply,…

  • Dangerous Cargo

    Nuclear waste to be transported through the Great Lakes Critics on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border are slamming a plan by Bruce Power, Canada’s private nuclear generating company, to ship 3,500 tonnes of nuclear waste through Lake Huron, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario, the St. Lawrence River, and the Atlantic…

  • Corporate Mapping Project

    Oil sands ‘Big Five’ making billions despite oil price crash and pipeline delays, new report shows

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT EDMONTON – As debate continues to rage over pipelines and the current price differential for Alberta’s oil, a new Corporate Mapping Project report analyzes how the five companies that dominate the oil sands sector have fared during the recent boom-bust commodity cycle. “Despite…

  • Corporate Mapping Project

    Boom, Bust and Consolidation

    Corporate restructuring in the Alberta oil sands Download 1.78 MB34 pages This report analyzes the economics of the five largest bitumen-extractive corporations in Canada, examining their key features and analyzing their accumulation dynamics in the context of the latest commodity cycle: boom (2004–2014), bust (2014–2016) and restructuring and consolidation (2015…

  • Budget 2016: A few small drops in the bucket

    Victoria – Finance Minister Mike de Jong said today the true measure of a society is its willingness to “truly make a difference” in the lives of the most vulnerable. “If you accept the Finance Minister’s measure of a society, BC is failing miserably,” says Iglika Ivanova, Senior Economist with…

  • 7 things that should be in the BC Budget but were missing from the Throne Speech

    BC Budget 2016 will be tabled tomorrow but we already know it will include a break on MSP premiums for some single parents, $50 million for new affordable housing initiatives this year (with funding also committed in each of the next four years), help for first-time home buyers, more resources for the long…

  • Growing Gap

    BNN and the growing gap

    For the past few weeks, a business leader could scarcely pick up a magazine without bumping into that other inconvenient truth of our era: rising inequality. It’s been the topic of discussion everywhere from the Economist, to The Atlantic, to the World Economic Forum. Today CTV’s Business News Network (BNN)…

  • The Local Financial Crisis

    Exorbitant interest on payday loans hurt many Canadians  There is no shortage of media coverage about the global financial crisis, bank bailouts, bankers’ bonuses, fears of double dips, and the like. But there is another financial crisis occurring on the streets of every Canadian city: the spread of the cheque-cashing…

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    Fast Facts: Mothering Project – Effective prevention with vulnerable families

    “The root causes of neglect—including poverty, poor housing, food insecurity, and substance abuse—lie beyond the scope of the child welfare system to resolve. But a collaborative approach, working with parents and harnessing the collective resources of child welfare and other provincial government departments, other levels of government, and the province’s…

  • Fast Facts: Community plays an important role in poverty reduction

    Appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press on December 4th, 2015. I teach in the Department of Urban and Inner City Studies at the University of Winnipeg. Our program is located on Selkirk Avenue in Winnipeg’s North End.  A large number of our students have grown up poor. Some have not…

  • Paved with good intentions: A guide to evolving climate policies in BC

    The road to hell is paved with good intentions, an economics professor of mine used to say back in the late 1980s. Concerned about the federal government’s inability to reign in fiscal deficits, hell back then was hitting a “financial wall” where the markets would no longer lend or would…

  • Fast Facts: Who’s keeping score?

    Two interesting reports crossed my desk recently. The first one, a column by Dan Lett, appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press on November 18th. Lett explains why he is unconvinced by Brian Pallister’s position on a variety of issues. He question Pallister’s math, but in doing so Lett has to…