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  • December 2006: Facing Some Hard Truths

    Progressives need to relearn how they “frame” their message The first time you come across them, it doesn’t seem to make any sense. They could be family members, co-workers, neighbours, or friends–and yet you can’t understand them: the sometimes NDP, sometimes Conservative voter. The kind of people who give generously…

  • Shale gas: “Chapter 11” steps in

    Both in Québec and in the United States, public authorities have legislated to protect populations from shale gas industry-related risks. These precautions could however come up against controversial NAFTA provisions within the infamous chapter 11 regarding investor protection. In the States, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is an Department…

  • Denying EIA Benefits Because of Outstanding Warrants – Unwarranted

    The Provincial government announced recently that it will take away Employment and Income Assistance (EIA) benefits for people with outstanding warrants for serious crimes. Recently there have been a couple of high profile cases where there were delays by the police in picking up individuals with outstanding warrants and this…

  • Alternative Federal Budget

    Think tank projects federal deficit in 2015-16

    Alternative Federal Budget advocates for stimulus to boost economic growth CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—The 2015 Alternative Federal Budget (AFB), released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), demonstrates that the federal government’s continued obsession with austerity and balancing the budget comes at the cost…

  • September 2006: A Short History of Radiation in Ontario

    Uranium refinery boosted economy, not workers’ health Veterans of the Second World War were given a better chance to succeed than were the veterans of World War I. They received cash gratuities and job training in an economy that was galloping along delivering new fridges, stoves, washing machines, cars, and…

  • Right-to-Work: The (Ayn?) Rand Formula

    There’s reluctance among Canadian proponents to call for it by name. But Right-to-Work (longer, harder, without representation or recourse, for less money and fewer sick days or pee breaks) seems to be the flavour du jour amongst…ahem…politicians of a certain age. (By which I mean the Age of Dickens. Pip-pip, cheerio, y’all.)…

  • Plan for $10 a day child care striking a chord with British Columbians

    More than thirty years ago, the women’s movement put child care on the public agenda. And while there have been important successes along the way, it can get depressing for grandmothers like me to see so little political progress. Parent fees are too high, staff wages are too low, there…

  • Labour Matters

    Saskatchewan’s proposed labour legislation changes could set dangerous precedent: report

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Regina —The Saskatchewan government’s contemplated changes to labour legislation as outlined in the Consultation Paper on the Renewal of Labour Legislation in Saskatchewan will have the perverse effect of lowering wages, undermining workplace democracy and contributing to worsening inequality in Saskatchewan, says a report released…

  • December 2005: Monitoring Medicare’s Murder

    Public awakens to assassination of Medicare, but is it too late? The slow, very public murder of Medicare as a universal, publicly-funded, single-tier health system has been going on for 20 years. The public failed to awaken fully to the murder because the assassins, even as they slowly throttled Medicare,…

  • December 2005: The “Big Business Bang” Theory

    Social, economic, environmental ills all have the same cause After nearly 12 years of editing and writing articles for The CCPA Monitor—about 3,000 of them so far—I’ve come to divide our contributors into two broad categories. Finding suitable one-word labels for them, however, is difficult without being guilty of generalizing.…

  • May 2006: Our Leaking Planetary Lifeboat

    Pursued much longer, corporate greed will bring disaster Given the dependence of all of Earth’s inhabitants—even the wealthy élite—on the planet’s basic life-support capacity, you might think that even the most selfish and powerful business executives, investors, and stock market speculators would by now have started to have doubts about…

  • Will the Province Protect the Little Saskatchewan River?

    The beautiful Little Saskatchewan River (LSR), recognized as a unique habitat for endangered, at-risk and common species, winds its way through Keesekoowenin First Nation and the towns of Minnedosa, Rapid City and Rivers in southwest Manitoba.  It empties into the Assiniboine River about 6 miles west of the City of…