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  • The Expressive Liberty of Beggars

    Why it matters to them, and to us Download 282.22 KB 28 pages Attachments FastFacts: The Case Against Criminalizing Panhandling: Laws that muzzle the disadvantaged violate human rights

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • The Weight of the One Percent

    Environment hurt more by super-rich than population growth Last October, two things happened that captured media attention. One was the run-up to the birth of the United Nations-selected seven billionth person on Earth. While this was a rather absurd exercise, given the impressive inaccuracy of demographic projections, it does have…

  • The Ethics of the Ethical Oil Cabal

    With the recent demonstrations in Ottawa against the Alberta tarsands and the XL oil pipeline, most of the mainstream media very quickly bought into the oil lobby’s talking points by constantly raising the argument that Alberta bitumen constitutes “ethical oil,” a morally superior product in relation to oil extracted from…

  • Book review – Just cool it! The climate crisis and what we can do

    The following is a review of Just cool it! The climate crisis and what we can do by David Suzuki and Ian Hanington, published by Greystone Books/David Suzuki Institute. Two passages in the introduction to this book encapsulate the situation that confronts us as the effects of global warming become more serious every…

  • Fast Facts: Steeling the NDP’s resolve

    Migrant farm workers need access to public healthcare As spring unfolds in southern Manitoba, we will soon see more than migratory birds arriving. Over 400 Seasonal Agricultural Workers are about to arrive from Mexico to take up the back-breaking work of cultivating vegetable and berry crops on Manitoba’s farms. These…

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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…

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    Food security in BC? Don’t count on it.

    If California’s farmers ever run out of the water needed to irrigate their crops, we’ll be in for a rude awakening. With 70 per cent of British Columbia’s imported fruits and vegetables coming from the sunny US state, any climatic disaster there would almost certainly result in dramatic run-ups in food…

  • Fast Facts: What the Frack is Happening in Manitoba

    Manitoba is poised to be a major Canadian player in providing large quantities of silica sand used in hydraulic fracking by the oil and gas industry.  This presents major risks that should be fully explored before allowing shovels into the ground. Canadian Premium Sand, a Canadian publicly traded company, is…

  • A litany of reports, but little accountability for police violence against Black Canadians

    When it comes to anti-Black racism in Canadian policing, we don’t have an information gap, we have a police accountability gap. I’m reminded of this as I review some of the findings of two significant reports released jointly in August by the Ontario Human Rights Commission, with news channels in…

  • September 2007: Is Collective Bargaining Now Really Free?

    Labour relations faces major shakeup from Court ruling On June 8, 2007, Canada’s Supreme Court constitutionalized collective bargaining in Canada. In doing so, it expanded considerably on its 2001 Dunmore decision which declared that all Canadian workers have the right to organize in their interests, select leaders of their own…