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  • Corporate Mapping Project

    Oil Politics in the Patch

    Climate Change Resistance and Cultures of Silence CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT Regina — In the wake of “The Price of Oil” investigation into oil industry impacts in Saskatchewan by the Toronto Star, National Observer and Global News, the realities of living with the health and environmental effects…

  • Corporate Mapping Project

    Oil sands ‘Big Five’ making billions despite oil price crash and pipeline delays, new report shows

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT EDMONTON – As debate continues to rage over pipelines and the current price differential for Alberta’s oil, a new Corporate Mapping Project report analyzes how the five companies that dominate the oil sands sector have fared during the recent boom-bust commodity cycle. “Despite…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    Ratifying CETA – Easier Said than Done

    This commentary is available in French. The majority of Canadians never supported former Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s aggressive brand of neoconservativism. In the October election, they were determined to unite behind the opposition party with the best chance of defeating the Conservatives. This desire for change coalesced around Justin Trudeau’s…

  • A bad time to be poor

    Welfare (social assistance) is a critical element of our social safety net. It is an expression of social solidarity–one of the ways we have chosen to look after each other as members of a community. Yet in recent years, welfare has been a favorite target for many budget-cutting provincial governments.…

  • November 2008: The Worst Time For the Worst Government

    Canadians need a rebuilt welfare state, not a broken one Ralph Nader, the famous American consumer advocate and perennial presidential candidate, writing recently in The Nation, recalled sitting at the family dining table when he was growing up and listening to his father talk about capitalism and socialism. “Capitalism will…

  • Corporate Mapping Project

    Canada’s fossil-fuel sector controlled by a few major players—including the five big banks, new study shows

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. VANCOUVER – The major investors in Canada’s fossil-fuel sector have high stakes in maintaining business as usual rather than addressing the industry’s serious climate issues, a new Corporate Mapping Project study reveals. “Substantial ownership and strategic control of Canada’s fossil fuel industry are in the…

  • October 2008: Health Canada and Drug Safety

    More people exposed to unsafe drugs before withdrawal Evaluating the safety of prescription drugs prior to approval and monitoring their safety once they have been marketed should be a major priority in any drug regulatory system. Over the past two decades, about 3-to-4% of the drugs approved by the Therapeutic…

  • All social and economic problems caused by an unfair distribution of wealth

    “The world holds enough to satisfy everyone’s need,” Mahatma Gandhi once observed, “but not everyone’s greed.” In these few words he identified the main cause of most of the world’s social and economic problems–and also pointed to their obvious solution. Poverty, hunger, homelessness, illiteracy, preventable disease, polluted air and water,…

  • End of a painful era

    The longest election in Canadian memory has produced a new government and a decisive end to the Harper era. The reasons are not especially complicated: Canadians demanded change in Ottawa, and an end to the “politics of fear and divisiveness,” as Liberal leader Justin Trudeau told us repeatedly along the…

  • Climate change and the duty of professional engineers and geoscientists: A call to action

    There has been a great deal of recent media coverage both for and against the planned Trans Mountain pipeline expansion (TMX). Much of it is political, but of utmost importance are the ramifications for the planet. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has stated that the expansion’s approval was based on science,…

  • Paved with good intentions: A guide to evolving climate policies in BC

    The road to hell is paved with good intentions, an economics professor of mine used to say back in the late 1980s. Concerned about the federal government’s inability to reign in fiscal deficits, hell back then was hitting a “financial wall” where the markets would no longer lend or would…

  • 5 ways the Harper government changed Canada

    I’m not going to lie: this is click bait. What I’d really like you to do is read all 434 pages of the new CCPA book The Harper Record 2008-2015, which I co-edited with Teresa Healy, available for free download. But as this is asking quite a bit at the…