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Ed Finn
September 2006: More and Bigger Crumbs from the Table
Buffett-Gates generosity no substitute for social justice When U.S. investment guru Warren Buffett donated $31 billion last June to the foundation headed by software mogul Bill Gates and his wife…
July 2006: Tackling the NAFTA Challenge
“Free trade” clearly a disaster, but how do we free ourselves? Bruce Campbell’s article in this issue explains how NAFTA—and its predecessor CUFTA—have worsened living standards and the quality of…
June 2006: On Becoming An Octogenarian
Getting older doesn’t mean getting any less committed Two of my oldest friends died during the past year: Malcolm (“Mac”) Maclaren late last summer and Harold Horwood a few months…
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…
April 2006: Taxing Our Credulity
Mad about paying taxes? OK, but is your anger well-directed? April is tax-paying month and many low- and middle-income Canadians labouring over their tax-forms will be fuming and swearing at…
March 2006: The Big Business Bang Theory (III)
A Canada with Scandinavian-style equality is achievable Several e-mails have reached me from readers who agree with my “Big Business Bang Theory” and with my call for a united civil…
February 2006: The “Big Business Bang” Theory II
If unbridled capitalism is the problem, what’s the solution? If you agree with the case I’ve made that almost all our most pressing social, economic, and environmental problems are caused…
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…
November 2005: The War of Words Heats Up
Will the spread of fascism in the U.S. spill over into Canada? As a communicator, I’ve always been fascinated by the ongoing verbal battle for the mind–by the use (and…
October 2005: Victims of a Neoliberal Mega-Storm
Hurricane Katrina exposes the fatal flaws of U.S. individualism Most of the media coverage of the devastation inflicted by Hurricane Katrina focused on the desperate plight of the survivors and…
September 2005: What’s Your Poison?
Life in a toxic environment is getting ever more precarious Smog-alert days this past summer were more common than days when the air was marginally breathable. The death toll of…
July 2005: The Best Health Care Money Can Buy?
Supreme Court ruling pushes Medicare to brink of two-tier abyss The Supreme Court’s recent decision favouring private health insurance didn’t sound the death knell for Medicare, but it did grease…
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