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  • Mettre fin à la violence faite aux femmes

    Comprendre les liens qui existent entre la violence directe et la violence structurale Le massacre de l’École Polytechnique à Montréal, il y a 18 ans, n’est malheureusement pas un cas isolé. Tous les 6 décembre, nous honorons la mémoire des quatorze femmes assassinées à l’occasion de la Journée nationale de commémoration et…

  • Trade vs. Fossil-Fuel Reductions

    Main obstacles to climate action are in trade agreements Four years ago, Prime Minister Stephen Harper abandoned Canada’s Kyoto obligations in favour of his “made in Canada” plan. This option was also later dropped when he decided to align our climate action with that of the United States.  In the…

  • The Growth of Degrowth (Part 1)

    Campaign for fair, sustainable economy is gaining ground Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a maniac or an economist. So said economist Kenneth Boulding back in the 1970s. Concept, process or movement — décrosissance, to give its European popularity its due —…

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    The implications for Canada of a fast-tracked Trans-Pacific Partnership

    As the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations slouch toward an agreement, supporters have cranked the volume on their praise for what is sometimes called the “NAFTA of the Pacific.” Critics, of which there are a growing number, prefer “NAFTA on steroids” – a sign the 12-country pact can only lead to…

  • The Great Divide: Fundraising is no solution to underresourced classrooms

    Recently, CBC analyzed two years’ worth of financial statements for seven schools in the Halifax area to determine the degree to which fundraising was playing a part in school finances. The results were instructive, pointing to a significant disparity in the amounts raised between schools. Volunteers at one school—in a…

  • Fast Facts: Caring for Home Care in Manitoba

    In January, the government released the Toews report The Future of Home Care Services in Manitoba. The report was commissioned by the NDP government in 2015 as a follow up to an earlier report on Home Care (HC) from the province’s Auditor General. The two most compelling challenges identified in…

  • The Great Log Export Drain: BC government pursues elusive LNG dreams as more than 3,600 forest industry jobs lost to raw log exports

    First of Two Parts Its members include the most powerful players in the province’s forest industry, companies that do the vast majority of all logging on British Columbia’s coast. Its website boasts of “innovative, high-tech” companies whose workers turn out “a growing array of forest and wood products.” But in…

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    Tax fairness in BC? Hardly

    Tax cuts disproportionately benefitted the richest 1% of British Columbians, write @IglikaIvanova & @1alexhemingway: https://t.co/iZbcztdPem pic.twitter.com/BavNnT2WWp — The CCPA–BC (@CCPA_BC) February 16, 2017 As we wait to hear more about the tax cuts coming in BC Budget 2017, it is important to remember what has happened to our provincial tax…

  • December 2001: An Unpunished War Criminal

    Book review THE TRIAL OF HENRY KISSINGER by Christopher Hitchens, Verso, 2001, $35 (Book Review) “Kissinger is a thug, a crook, a liar and a murderer.”– Christopher Hitchens The United States government is the most violent in the world and since 1945 has killed upwards of eight million people in…

  • Corporations are people too

    Advocates of democratic electoral reform are really out of step. Ideas like proportional representation and advertising spending limits are so retro, so 2004. The fashionable electoral reform idea this year is to give corporations a real say. It’s time for individual citizens to share their electoral democracy with corporations to…

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    Making Women Count

    Fast Facts: Counting women in

    A gender-based analysis of homelessness International Women’s Day (IWD) will be celebrated this weekend. Although progress has been made regarding women’s rights and equality, the basic right to a safe and affordable home will be out of reach for too many women across the globe and here in Manitoba. IWD…

  • June 2007: The Wrong “Solution” To Pollution

    Nuclear power won’t clean up the Alberta tar sands The very biggest environmental issue in Canada is the Alberta oil sands project. Though only partially developed as yet, it covers 138,000 square kilometers of northern Alberta–an area as large as the state of Florida. At yet, only the surface oil…