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Ed Finn
April 2004: The Circle of Life
Let’s stop exterminating the creatures we share the planet with One day a long time ago, when I was still in my teens, I came home from school sporting a…
March 2004: The Most Destructive Epidemic
Cancer comes in many forms. The corporate kind could be the worst. THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE EPIDEMIC: Cancer comes in many forms. The corporate kind could be the worst By Ed…
February 2004: Lies, Damn Lies, and Political Promises
In our political system, the politicians profit from perfidy With crucial national elections looming this year in both Canada and the United States, it may be timely to ponder the…
December 2003: The Alternative Federal Budget
AFB shows how a better budget would lead to a better world CCPA staff, research associates, economists and NGO activists are busily at work drafting our Alternative Federal Budget (AFB)…
November 2003: Corporate Crime Goes Unpunished
Canada’s appalling work safety record among the world’s worst Every time a police officer is killed by a criminal, it makes front-page news. The funeral is attended by law enforcement…
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…
“Where’s the money coming from?
The money needed to “fix” Medicare can easily be found Of all the many questions raised by the Romanow Report, the one most often asked is “Where’s the money coming…
The case against protest violence
At a time when the anti-globalization movement needs to be more united than ever before, it is disturbingly divided. The split is over means, not ends, but is nonetheless very…
After September 11th
In the wake of the horrific Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington, and the killing of more than 7,000 people, the subsequent “war on terrorism” has led to…
We need a political party that will challenge corporate rule
On the five or six days over the past 10 years that I have been free to participate in what passes for the democratic process in Canada–federal and provincial election…
Who Do We Try to Rescue Today?
Canada Under Corporate Rule For the past 10 years, CCPA Monitor Editor Ed Finn has been writing about the various aspects of corporate rule, and about the poverty, inequality and…
The fateful summer of 1962
Foes of Medicare turn Douglas’s dream into a nightmare As a witness to the birth of Medicare in Canada, and as someone who played a small part in bringing it…
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