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  • Cui Bono?

    Who benefits from government actions? Our corporate rulers Lucius Cassius, a consul whom the people of ancient Rome revered as a wise and honest judge, was often required to adjudicate disputes involving the laws or policies of the Senate. Time and again, his first question was “Cui bono?” which can…

  • Polling on taxes – response to a critic

    On November 29, the CCPA released an opinion research study led by myself and Randy Galawan called Beyond the 1%: What British Columbians think about taxes, inequality and public services. The study involved an extensive online survey (poll) of a broad sample of British Columbians, conducted by Environics Research, and…

  • Your Brain on Capitalism

    At least as far back as Sokrates, people have speculated on the relationship between psychology and politics. In the 20th century, Wilhelm Reich, Erich Fromm and members of the Frankfurt School (such as Herbert Marcuse) pioneered discussion about how individual dispositions affect one’s social and political ideologies. On the other…

  • Fast Facts: As wealthiest speed past the rest of us

    Manitoba needs to fight income inequality First published on CBC online July 8th, 2018 A Ferrari cruises down Portage Avenue past people lining the streets on lawn chairs on Sunday evening in Winnipeg. The $250,000 car purrs along the road, a symbol of incredible wealth. Meanwhile, other Winnipeggers struggle to…

  • Fast Facts: He Had a Dream

    Fifty years ago today, April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis Tennessee. James Earl Ray was convicted, but as Angela Davis said, “Racism was Martin Luther King’s assassin.” King was a brilliant leader in the African-American struggle for freedom in America’s Deep South. His name will…

  • The Infinite Economic Growth Myth

    Profit maximization now a fatal corporate priority While on my summer vacation, I try to isolate myself for a few weeks from the worsening global troubles that beset us all. But this year, try as I might to lose myself in light-reading thrillers and fantasies, worrisome news from the real…

  • Equality is the Core Value of Democracy

    Stop backsliding, put Canada back on road to equality There has never been a better time in recent history when the core democratic value of equality can be seen as both an ethical and practical option. Governments in advanced democracies around the world have been forced by the current prolonged…

  • Qu’est-ce que ça coûte pour élever une famille dans les provinces Maritimes ?

    Beaucoup plus qu’on penserait, comme démontre le nouveau rapport sur le salaire convenable CLIQUEZ ICI POUR CONSULTER LE RAPPORT. Halifax—Le montant dont une famille de quatre personnes a besoin quand les deux parents travaillent à temps plein- un salaire convenable–est 19 $ par l’heure à Halifax, 18,18 $ à Saint…

  • The Attack on Organics

    Anti-organics study funded by Cargill and other corporations Food issues have been much in the news recently, but I want to focus on what can only be called an attempt to trash organic food and organic farming – an attempt that, as we shall see, fits into a larger agenda.…

  • Lowering Our Standards

    The right-wing Fraser Institute has released a paper that, if implemented, would dramatically lower our standards for worker pay, workers’ rights and workplace protections. It urges governments in Ontario and B.C. to adopt American-style “right-to-work” (RTW) laws which violate a core principle upheld in Canadian law: if a majority of…

  • Labour Matters

    The Threat of Right-to-Work Laws and the Need for Social Solidarity

     A major confrontation is shaping up between progressive elements of Canadian society associated with the trade union movement and social democracy, and anti-union organizations (many of them inspired and guided by the National Right-to-Work Committee based in Virginia) that are seeking to eliminate the institutional arrangements that protect trade union…

  • Uber No Solution for Winnipeg

    Analysis of taxi and transport Conservative forces in the provincial legislature and at Winnipeg City Hall are combining to enable ride-sharing services such as Uber and allow its introduction into the Winnipeg market. Acting on recommendations of the December 2016 report prepared by accounting firm Myers, Norris, Penny (MNP) on…