Search results for “site/human rights”

  • Public Interest Research Project (BC)

    Government Not Enforcing Health Laws

    The provincial government recently stated that user charges for emergency health care services provided at the new False Creek Urgent Care Centre are legal. Minister of Health George Abbott says he would not have any basis for legal action because the doctors providing urgent care at the clinic are from…

  • What should our government be spending money on?

    One question that is missing from the public debate on deficits and debt is whether we’re getting the best bang for the stimulus buck. Even if we accept that it’s appropriate for governments to borrow and engage in deficit-financing during a recession, as I have argued here, we need to…

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    Fast Facts: Community Economic Development in Manitoba and the Inclusive Economy

    Manitoba is a province of economic growth and economic disparity. It is a province with low unemployment rates, diverse development, and incredible resource wealth.  On the flip side, Manitoba has continuously had some of the highest child poverty rates in Canada, and the highest homicide rates, and Winnipeg has been…

  • February 2007: “More Time For Daddy”

    Quebec leads the way with its new parental leave policy Leave related to the birth or adoption of a child includes maternity leave, paternity leave, and parental leave. In Canada, there was a change in parental leave in 2001, which basically extended the leave from six months to approximately one…

  • A Key Neglected Tool For Economic Recovery

    A different and improved money system is urgently needed An improved money system could provide governments in Canada and elsewhere with abundant funding, not only to enable us to pull out of the current recession, but also to meet the whole range of social needs that confront us — from…

  • Public Interest Research Project (BC)
    Seniors Care

    Without Foundation

    How Medicare is Undermined by Gaps and Privatization in Community and Continuing Care The Community and Continuing Care sector is fundamental to B.C.’s entire health care system. The sector’s significance can be traced to the 1991 Seaton Commission, which proposed a “closer to home” theme for health care restructuring. The…

  • Labour Matters

    Work Life: City of Winnipeg should study benefits of in-house waste collection

    This fall Winnipeg City Council will determine the future of waste and recycling collection in our city.  Current contracts with Emterra Environmental and Progressive Waste Services will expire in 2017.  At least eight private companies have expressed interest in putting forward a proposal, and it will be up to council…

  • Seniors Care

    Fast Facts: Contracting Out Enhanced Home Care Program

    Among the many recent changes by the Pallister government to health care was a contract with two private companies to operate the Enhanced Home Care Program (EHCP). This will provide community care to patients who can no longer benefit from acute hospital care, at an estimated total cost of $10.5M.…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    Making Sense of the CETA

    An analysis of the final text of the Canada–European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement Download 3.57 MB 128 pages This report demonstrates in detail how the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) deal is unbalanced, favouring large multinational corporations at the expense of consumers, the environment, and the greater…

  • A Tale of Two Crises

    Climate crisis far more threatening than economic crisis Most of us have become preoccupied with the deepening economic slump that has spread like a pandemic across the globe. Whether it can be controlled before morphing into a full-blown depression is the question preying on our minds. This concern is understandable,…

  • Protecting Canada’s world-class grain system

    Well-functioning regulatory systems tend to be invisible, until tragedy occurs. It is only after someone dies from drinking contaminated water or eating tainted food, a bank fails or a highway overpass collapses that the general public realizes that something is wrong. Citizens rightly expect their governments to protect them and…

  • Modi and the criminalization of Indian politics

    The election of Narendra Modi as India’s prime minister in May, with strong backing from the country’s capitalist class, placed a mass murderer at the head of the world’s largest democracy. It was a shocking and unprecedented development whose consequences for India’s political and economic future are ominous. A history…