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Work Life: Honouring Ellen Olfert, founder of SAFE Workers of Tomorrow
Honouring Ellen Olfert, founder of SAFE Workers of Tomorrow In 1995, 19 year old Stephen Nicholson was on the job site working in a paint booth. He was working on the exhaust system and had been lowered into the vent when suddenly paint residue ignited and engulfed Stephen in flames.…
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Today’s conservatives Are Not Your Grandpa’s Tories
Co-ops, Credit Unions and Free Trade Policies On the Main Street in Morden Manitoba there are two gas stations: an Esso and a Co-op. During the busiest times of the week-after a hockey game, or on Sunday when the area’s many churches let out-you will see cars waiting in line…
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Putting fairness back into Canada’s tax system
Earlier this year, Warren Buffett, one of the richest people on the planet, remarked that his secretary, who makes a lot less money than her boss, actually pays a higher rate of tax. Buffett went so far as to call on the US Congress to stop giving major tax breaks…
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Not long ago, BC received huge annual royalty revenues from its growing natural gas sector. The revenues were often billed as paying for essential public services like health care and education, and were appealing politically as they meant governments did not have to raise taxes to do so. The provincial…
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Ontario job watch: 2016 ends with a whimper
Canada may have ended 2016 with a surprising spurt in job growth last December, but Ontario was not so lucky.Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey ushered in employment numbers for the last month of 2016, showing Canada added 214,000 jobs since December 2015 — much higher than expected.Unfortunately, most of these…
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The Monitor, July/August 2021
Media Democracy and Combatting Misinformation Download 2.9 MB “Canada is no stranger to dynastic ownership of its media companies,” writes Robin Shaban in her feature article in this issue of the Monitor. “Thomson, Atkinson, Black, Irving: each family name is synonymous with the control of major press operations, either nationally…
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With BC’s job market stalled, it’s time for a jobs plan that actually works
The latest BC job numbers reveal a picture of persistently high unemployment and stalled job creation. Since January, BC’s unemployment rate has been on a roller-coaster ride, down one month and up the next. All in all, here have been very few jobs created in 2013, far fewer than needed…
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A critical guide to the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change
After working on climate and energy issues intensively for the past nine years, I would love to scream from the rooftops about how Canada now has a real climate framework, and how as a nation we are proudly, if belatedly, walking the talk. Instead, I feel immensely disappointed by last…
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Fracking has no place near critical dams or reservoirs
Last year, a dubious record was set when a magnitude 4.6 earthquake was triggered near Fort St. John during a natural gas industry fracking operation. The tremor was just the latest to be linked to the controversial brute force gas extraction technique, and almost certainly was noted at BC Hydro’s…
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The Union of BC Municipalities Convention: a potpourri of policy
For people who follow local policy issues the annual meeting of the Union of BC Municipalities (UBCM) is always chock-a-block with material. Last week’s meeting in Vancouver, which saw hundreds of mayors and councilors along with most of the Cabinet, much of the BC opposition and dozens of groups selling…
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Wages, markets and temporary workers
Last November, the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) announced a scheme to speed up the processing of temporary workers for Alberta and British Columbia. The Minister appears to have been concerned with ongoing reports of large numbers of job vacancies going unfilled. In response, he pursued several initiatives,…
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New study shows retirement security is colour coded in Canada
Data reveal significant inequalities in income between Indigenous, racialized and white seniors, as well as in retirement savings for adults CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (French) CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (English) Indigenous and racialized seniors have less retirement security and higher poverty rates than white…
