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Vancouver City Budget Woes: Are the Cuts Really Necessary?
In this round of municipal budgeting, the city of Vancouver finds itself in exactly the same predicament as the federal and provincial governments faced earlier in the year – projected revenues would not be sufficient to meet their rising expenditures. The big difference is that municipal governments are prohibited by…
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Work Life: Workplace Safety a motherhood issue? Not yet.
In Manitoba, messages about the importance of workplace health and safety are hard to miss. The SAFE Work campaigns run year-round by the Workers Compensation Board are trying to foster a culture of workplace health and safety in which it becomes socially unacceptable to put workers in harm’s way. After…
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Corporate Child Abuse
Profit-driven system exploits, mistreats vulnerable youth “There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul,” Nelson Mandela says, “than the way in which it treats its children.” Who would disagree? Yet today children may be assaulted, diseased, or killed by pervasive corporate drugs, junk foods and beverages, perverted by…
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Three decades lost
Less than 1% reduction in child poverty in Nova Scotia since 1989 CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT Halifax – In Nova Scotia there are 40,710 children or close to 1 in 4 children (24.2%) who live in poverty based on the most recent data. The 2019 Report Card…
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Work Life: A Province with No Poverty?
The so-called war on poverty has been an abysmal failure. Poverty rates in Canada remain at stubbornly high levels. Most provinces, including Manitoba, still have about one in 10 living below acceptable low-income cut-offs. Low-income Manitobans, like other low-income Canadians, fall back on a myriad of programs supposedly aimed at…
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Deconstructing BC Hydro’s Rate Increase
When the government imposed its Energy Plan on BC Hydro it never bothered to estimate the costs (or for that matter the benefits) of what it hoped to achieve. Ardent supporters of that Plan, like my good friend Mark Jaccard, constructed scenarios under which it would make sense to force…
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Youth employment measures in #bdgt14 do little to fix a big problem
It’s not unreasonable to say that Canada has a youth employment crisis. The employment rate for youth in January was at one of its lowest points since the start of the recession, at 50.6%[i]. That’s only 0.1% higher than it was two years ago and down by a tenth compared…
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BC’s Big Favour?
The hype on LNG has grown to staggering proportions. I have not had much time to debunk all of the government’s grotesque exaggerations and outright falsehoods. But Christy Clark’s claim that BC is “doing the world a favour” by exporting LNG to Asia made me write this oped, which got…
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BC’s Big Favour?
The hype on LNG has grown to staggering proportions. I have not had much time to debunk all of the government’s grotesque exaggerations and outright falsehoods. But Christy Clark’s claim that BC is “doing the world a favour” by exporting LNG to Asia made me write this oped, which got…
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Doing the math on all-day-K
Amid the corner-cutting exercise that was the September BC budget, there seemed to be a glimmer of hope: actual money was alloted for the expansion of kindergarten to full day. Could it be that the BC government has finally started to get it and is planning to heed its own…
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Our Schools/Our Selves: Summer 2009
Freedom to Teach, Freedom to Learn: Professional judgment, authentic learning and creative classrooms Attachments Table of Contents and Editorial The Student’s Freedom to Learn Requires the Educator’s Freedom to Teach “Not Mining is Not An Option!” Corporate lessons from the Mining Matters curriculum Book Review – About Canada: Childcare
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Loonie’s Fall Not a Moment Too Soon
The long-overdue depreciation of Canada’s currency is gathering steam. The dollar lost 8 cents against its U.S. counterpart, in fits and starts, over 2013. It’s lost another 2 cents since the start of 2014, and negative sentiment about the currency is accumulating among financial analysts and traders. Indeed, once the…