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Fuelling Wars, Supplying the Warmongers
Canadian gov’t heavily subsidizing our military companies Between 2003 and 2006, Canada’s war industries profited from at least $7.4 billion in exports to 88 foreign governments. Of these Canadian military exports, 93% ($6.8 billion) went to 62 nations with troops fighting in major armed conflicts. Of these 62 warring nations…
March 1, 2010
Good Economy Project

Unjust treatment of farm workers should end
On September 15, the BC government will increase the general minimum wage by a measly 20 cents, from $10.25 to $10.45, and apply a 2% increase to the minimum piece rates for hand-harvested crops. Under the Employment Standards Act, farm workers who harvest fruits, berries and certain vegetables (peas, beans…
May 22, 2015
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Reality Check: Progress on child care in BC, 2012-2020
In the early days of the current BC election campaign child care took centre stage when NDP leader John Horgan recommitted his party to fully implement the $10aDay Plan1 if elected on October 24. Public discussion and commentary followed in the media and from other parties. Questions were raised about the…
October 9, 2020
Wood wasted at BC logging sites would fill a cross-country truck convoy — twice
Costs include thousands of potential jobs, sharply higher CO2 emissions: report CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) A new report on BC’s forest industry finds that startling numbers of usable logs are being left to rot or burn at logging sites, at a potential cost of thousands of…
March 25, 2009
The wrong question in the wrong forum
It didn’t take very much time at the joint federal-provincial environmental hearing into Site C, which started this week in Fort St. John, to realize that it is not the best forum to address the central issue underlying BC Hydro’s proposal to develop the $8 to $9 billion hydro project.…
December 12, 2013
UN singles out BC Government on women’s rights
BC is not meeting its obligations to women under international human rights law. That was the clear message of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women in comments issued last week in New York City-just in time for International Women’s Day (March 8). The UN Committee…
March 1, 2003
Canada at a Crime Crossroads
National Conversation on “crime” and prevention urgently needed At a time when the economic, political, and social costs of increasing our reliance on incarceration are widely known, the federal, provincial, and territorial governments are in the process of creating 10,600 new prison spaces with an infrastructure cost of $3.6 billion…
May 1, 2011
FastFacts: Rights of Migrant Farm Workers Recognized
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July 12, 2007
The roots of our housing crisis: Austerity, debt and extreme speculation
We’re now 10 years on from the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression. Or, as our national mythology puts it, 10 years since Canada breathed a deep sigh of relief as the crisis mostly grazed our economy and financial system. Since 2008, we’ve had 10 years of congratulatory back-patting…
June 14, 2019
Labour Matters

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…
October 2, 2013
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Housing crisis worse: Former UN special rapporteur Miloon Kothari revisits Vancouver
As the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing from 2000 to 2008, Miloon Kothari observed the failure of market-based approaches to addressing housing crises. His 2007 report on Canada called for “a national strategy [for the] large scale building of social housing, and much better tenant…
December 1, 2017
Corporate rights under serious scrutiny in Europe. Canada fast asleep.
On Feb. 3rd, I made a presentation in Vancouver to the House of Commons Standing Committee on International Trade on the proposed Canada/E.U. trade deal (C.E.T.A.). I was there on behalf of CUPE B.C. The Committee, chaired by Alberta Conservative M.P. Rob Merrifield, was in B.C. to review both C.E.T.A.…
February 5, 2014