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  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    The Social Determinants of Health in Manitoba

    2nd Edition “This 2nd Edition of the Social Determinants of Health in Manitoba is a timely reminder that the health of people is determined more by economic and social inequality than by germs and diseases.  In keeping with the 1st Edition, this is an excellent collection of papers by experts…

  • Reduction in Child Poverty Stalled in Nova Scotia

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. HALIFAX, NS – Twenty-two years ago (in 1989), the government of Canada promised to end child poverty by the year 2000. However, as Lesley Frank, author of a report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives –Nova Scotia, says, “analysis of the latest available…

  • Fast Facts: The Conservative Stealth Strategy to Undermine Medicare

    The Harper government has a two-fold strategy to undermine Medicare. One part of the game plan is to underfund Medicare creating “shortages” over the medium run without making a politically unwise frontal attack against the not-for-profit publicly funded and organized health care system cherished by Canadian citizens. When it expired…

  • Fast Facts: Post Election 2011

    How will the Selinger government move Manitoba forward? On October 4th Manitobans gave Selinger’s NDP a mandate to govern for the next four years. The NDP ran on a Doer-esque steady-as-she-goes platform with the slogan Let’s keep building. Don’t turn back. Eyes will now be watching to see how the…

  • In our politics, telling the truth gets you in trouble

    What’s that they say about the first casualty of war? You can obviously say the same for Canadian elections. Linda McQuaig, the prominent Toronto NDP candidate and long-time economics journalist, is the latest to be caught in this political vortex. She found herself in a heap of trouble last week…

  • In our politics, telling the truth gets you in trouble

    What’s that they say about the first casualty of war? You can obviously say the same for Canadian elections. Linda McQuaig, the prominent Toronto NDP candidate and long-time economics journalist, is the latest to be caught in this political vortex. She found herself in a heap of trouble last week…

  • Public Interest Research Project (BC)

    A clever new slogan, but where are the jobs?

    Premier Clark’s much anticipated BC Jobs Plan comes up short where it matters most: the jobs. For all the fuss of a four-day media launch, the “Canada Starts Here” plan contains very few measures that will lead to new employment, and the ones that are there come many years into…

  • Election 2011 UNSPUN: Winnipeg’s Inner City and North End Neighbourhoods

    Lessons from Ten Years of Research The inner city suddenly becomes important to politicians during elections. Some political parties choose to focus solely on crime and fear. The approach they take is punitive, shaped, we believe, from a lack of understanding of how complex challenges really are. Others have a…

  • CCPA joins global campaign to #MakeAmazonPay

    Amazon’s rise from online bookseller to trillion-dollar global logistics, internet, merchandising and entertainment behemoth was fast and ferocious. Behind the same-day deliveries and trend-setting television series is a company committed to ruthlessly destroying productive economic activity and debasing workers. It is helped along in this pursuit by aggressive (but legal) tax…

  • Just how bad is BC’s LNG deal with Petronas?

    Last week, the BC government released the text of its Project Development Agreement with Pacific Northwest LNG (led by Malaysian state enterprise, Petronas), considered the front-runner in getting BC an LNG export industry. The agreement goes to the BC legislature this week in order to convince Petronas to make a “final investment decision.” There…

  • Canada’s Shredded Social Saftey Net

    Our employment insurance system far below OECD average Between October 2008 and May 2009, 363,000 Canadians were thrown out of work – and the OECD projects unemployment in this country to rise to 9.8% in 2010. In this global recession, the weakness of Canada’s Employment Insurance (EI) system has become…

  • February 2004: The Vanishing Country (Part III of III)

    After years of kowtowing, our influence with the U.S. is still zilch, Canada is too good a country to let our Americanizers destroy it U.S. President George W. Bush and the U.S. ambassador to Canada, Paul Cellucci, were “disappointed” that Canada didn’t join in the American-led invasion of Iraq. Their…