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  • Corak in Context

    Professor Miles Corak had a post on The Globe and Mail’s Economy Lab yesterday comparing measures of unemployment in Canada and the U.S. I remember learning in Economics 100 that the official Canadian and American unemployment rates are not directly comparable, in part because Statistics Canada includes 15-year-olds whereas the U.S. Bureau of…

  • Meilinomics II: Income from Within

    The following is another excerpt from Dr. Ryan Meili’s new book, A Healthy Society: How a Focus on Health Can Revive Canadian Democracy, which fellow blogger Greg Fingas has been discussing. The road to Tevele is red sand and sloppy in the rainy season. The pick- up truck bounces in and out of ruts as…

  • Climate Justice Project

    Climate change will shape BC in 2035, one way or another

    We live on a different planet from the one our parents grew up on, says environmentalist Bill McKibben. Climate change from our rampant combustion of fossil fuels has pushed the world into a new era of bizarre weather anomalies. In BC, warming has been greater that the global average, with…

  • Climate change will shape BC in 2035, one way or another

    I have an oped in today’s Vancouver Sun as part of its BC in 2035 series. Climate change will shape BC in 2035, one way or another We live on a different planet from the one our parents grew up on, says environmentalist Bill McKibben. Climate change from our rampant combustion of…

  • Time to give shale gas industry a closer look before we’re totally fracked

    Despite the recent release by Canada’s natural gas industry of a set of guiding principles governing the controversial gas well “stimulation” method known as hydraulic fracturing or “fracking”, and despite the almost immediate endorsement of those principles by BC Premier and industry cheerleader Christy Clark, more and more British Columbians…

  • Enduring Austerity to Ensure Prosperity: The Saskatchewan Advantage!

    Budgets rarely capture the imagination of the electorate, and today’s Saskatchewan budget was certainly no exception.  This is unfortunate due to the very real choices for the future direction of our province that lay beneath the more mundane economic statements contained in today’s budget speeches. Finance Minister Ken Krawetz  stated that this…

  • TransLink Funding and Governance (Yet Again)

    I always smile when I think of the provincial negotiator Peter Cameron’s comments when we were wrapping up the final details in the transit funding and governance negotiations leading to the creation of Translink. We all thought we had a good agreement. MetroVancouver would be given broad responsibilities to plan…

  • Making the minimum wage a living wage in Nova Scotia

    After years of pressure from anti-poverty advocates it seems that politicians and the media across the country have taken a renewed interest in the minimum wage. A number of provinces are in the midst of minimum wage discussions. Internationally the minimum wage has also been in the headlines. In Europe…

  • Consequences of outsourcing Toronto’s city cleaning jobs

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Canadians were justifiably outraged when Electro-Motive, owned by Caterpillar, threatened its London, Ont., workers with a 50 per cent pay cut and then left Canada in search of cheaper labour in the U.S. In Toronto, a similar story is unfolding, only it’s city council —…

  • The Latin American Revolution (Part XI)

    Latin American countries deepen integration, defy the U.S. On December 3-4, 2011, a historic meeting of all 33 Latin American and Caribbean countries took place in Caracas, Venezuela. It was a gathering that significantly advanced the Latin American Revolution. The Presidents of these nations assembled to inaugurate a new regional…

  • In the Wake of the Crisis: Bully Capitalism

    A shorter version of this article appears today at Economy Lab, the Globe and Mail’s on-line business feature.  Capitalism has entered an ugly new era, one that may work well for the shareholders of world, but not for the rest of us. I couldn’t help but notice that, on the very…

  • 10 ways we can improve the lives of low-income British Columbians

    This is the season when we find ourselves particularly conscious of poverty and homelessness, but this year more so than usual. British Columbians are faced with the paradox of our current economy; we are experiencing solid economic growth and decades-low unemployment on the one hand, and record homelessness, persistent poverty,…