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Election 2011 UNSPUN: Pro-Business Agenda: Long on Rhetoric, Short on Good Ideas
On August 29, 2011 the Manitoba Employers Council (MEC) released a report titled, Are we there yet? The Manitoba Prosperity Report. The purpose of the report is to review Manitoba’s…
Fast Facts: The Implications of the Public Utilities Board Report on Manitoba Hydro
On July 29, 2011, the Public Utilities Board (PUB) of Manitoba issued an interim Order denying Manitoba Hydro requests to “finalize existing interim rates and for an additional 0.9% rate…
Fast Facts: The Inequality Agenda and the Specious Ideas that Support It
In June, 1998, Toronto’s Centre for Social Justice published a report by Armine Yalnizyan on the dimensions and implications of growing inequalities in the distribution of incomes in Canada. In…
Fast Facts: How Unions Protect Our Human Rights
Unions are usually thought of as being about higher wages. It’s true. Unions do produce higher wages for their members (and often, as a result of knock-on effects, for other workers…
Fast Facts: Sustainable health care begins with the social determinants of health
It’s time to get it right On May 13, 2011 the Conference Board of Canada announced the formation of the Canadian Alliance for Sustainable Health Care (CASHC) to “provide Canadian…
Fast Facts: “Mean Streets” society coming
The election this month of a majority Conservative government will change Canada’s political landscape in ways that will be detrimental to most Canadians. Cuts to public spending will be severe…
Labour Notes: The attack on unions has now come to Canada
How do we respond? Anyone who has been keeping tabs on recent developments in what can accurately be called the assault on trade unions and working people in the U.S.,…
Fast Facts: McFadyen’s crazy numbers won’t fool Manitobans
A Brandon Sun editorial of April 2, 2011 (“So what’s the real cost of Bipole III?”) reports that, in his announcement of the revised estimate of $3.28 billion, Bob Brennan,…
Scott Walker is not welcome in Canada
On March 4, 2011, the Financial Post published an article by Niels Veldhuis and Milagros Palacios titled, “We need Scott Walker here.” Scott Walker is the Governor of Wisconsin who…
Fast Facts: Economic and Fiscal Priorities
We need to get them right In recent months the Manitoba branch of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation has been calling for immediate action to eliminate provincial budget deficits. In 2010,…
CCPA Review: Critics of Hydro/Government plans for Bipole III lack credibility
Last month the Winnipeg Free Press published a full page of criticism regarding the decision to run the Bipole III transmission line down the West Side of Lake Winnipeg. The…
Fast Facts: Who speaks for the public interest?
One of the most perverse aspects of Canadian society is the way that organized labour and other progressive organizations are dismissed as special interest groups and marginalized in public discourse…
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