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  • Quality of Life Assessment is too important to be left to economists

    Download 229.48 KB 4 pages In 2008, French President Nicolas Sarkozy estab­lished the Commission on the Measurement of Eco­nomic Performance and Social Progress. It was headed by two Nobel laureates, Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen, and coordinated by the French economist, Jean-Paul Fitoussi. The 22 members of the Commission included…

  • About Fracking Time: BC’s Independent MLAs Call on Premier to Investigate Hydraulic Fracturing

    As British Columbia Premier Christy Clark makes her debut in the provincial legislature this coming week, the media spotlight will likely be on the predictable verbal sparring between her and Adrian Dix, the NDP’s recently minted leader, over Clark’s alleged “fix” of the Harmonized Sales Tax. Meaning that Independent MLAs…

  • October 2003: Canadian Mining Companies Set to Destroy Ghana’s Forest Reserves

    Under pressure from Canadian and U.S. mining companies, the Ghanaian government seems ready to pass legislation in June 2003 which will open the country’s protected forest reserves to mining. The companies’ bulldozers are ready to rip apart thousands of hectares of rainforest in the Ashanti, Eastern and Western Regions if…

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    Does the global “loss and damages” fund negotiated at COP27 offer lessons for BC?

    The 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27) ended last November with an historic agreement to establish a “loss and damages” fund to address the impacts of climate change on the most vulnerable nations. Given the disasters BC has faced over the last couple of years, is this a model the…

  • The Middle East Revolution (Part IV)

    Saudi Arabia helps crush the democratic uprising in Bahrain In a display of astounding hypocrisy in mid-August, the Saudi Arabian government denounced the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad as “a killing machine” and recalled its ambassador from Damascus. Saudi Arabia claimed to be outraged by the slaughter of an estimated…

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  • Civil liberties, First Nation rights compromised by C-51, committee hears

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  • Reflections on the Tamil migrants from the child of “queue-jumping” asylum seekers

    If the 492 Tamil asylum-seekers who recently arrived by boat on BC’s shores are “queue-jumpers”, then I guess my parents were too. They came as Vietnam War draft dodgers from the US in 1967. Like a couple of the Tamil women just arrived, my mom was pregnant with me. My…

  • Labour Matters

    Work Life: Supreme Court Rulings on Labour Legislation

    An Affirmation of Workers’ Constitutional Rights The January 30, 2015 decision by the Supreme Court of Canada was a very significant one for the labour movement, and in fact for Canadian society. In their decision the Court once more reaffirmed that a strong base of fundamental rights for union members…

  • Fast Facts: Forestry plan favours industry, not people

    The way long-term, large-scale forest management planning is approved by the Pallister government is about to change. And not for the better, I might add. In the spring of 2020, the Manitoba Minister of Conservation and Climate (Sarah Guillemard) issued a mandate letter to the Chair of the Manitoba Clean…

  • Why Governments Can Safely Ignore Hunger

    Corporate food charity keeps hunger off political agenda Over the past 30 years, Canadians have increasingly been led to believe that community compassion expressed through charitable food handouts is the most effective way of feeding our hungry poor and homeless. Since the establishment of the first food banks in the…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    Trans-Pacific Partnership does not live up to labour promises: study

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA – Far from being a pro-labour trade deal, as the Canadian and U.S. governments claim, a new study from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives shows the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) makes little effort to improve labour standards and offers workers a toothless dispute processes…