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Bitumen development poses critical challenges for Canada: study
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA—A failure to carefully regulate the Canadian bitumen industry is putting Canada on a dangerous economic and…
The Bitumen Cliff
Lessons and Challenges of Bitumen Mega-Developments for Canada’s Economy in an Age of Climate Change Download 2.51 MB102 pages The failure to…
Sweet heart, bitter pill: Rising, dancing, and costing violence against women in Canada
On Valentine’s Day this year women around the world will be dancing. One Billion Rising, a new initiative from Vagina Monologues’ author Eve Ensler,…
Tuition hike and the media between 2005 and 2010 in Québec
I’ve contended for the last two years that between 2005 and 2010, an intensive public relations campaign was undertaken with the aim…
Fast Facts: Creating opportunities with green jobs
The Story of BUILD and BEEP .Social enterprises have emerged as viable business models that create a blended return on investment as…
The Victims Of Drones (Part I)
Opposition to U.S. drone attacks rises globally and in U.S. Joe Lombardo is co-coordinator of the United National Anti-War Coalition (UNAC), the…
Thinking the Apocalyptic Unthinkable
Oil-dependent “civilization” faces collapse before mid-century Whether our “civilization” will survive this century is now — or should be — the main…
Repeat After Me: Ontario is not Greece
The Fraser Institute has a new report warning Ontario could become the next Greece or California because of the size of its…
A Tale of Two Telecoms or Actions Speak Louder than Words
Where does the Saskatchewan government stand on the privatization of provincial Crown corporations? You’d be hard pressed to come up with a…
Our Way or the Norway
One of goals in my paper, The Petro-Path Not Taken, was to compare Norway and Canada-Alberta’s record in distributing petroleum wealth amongst persons…
Yukon’s court ruling on free-entry mining could help Idle No More
This past December 27th, the appeals court of the Yukon Territory gave an important ruling regarding the rights of First Nations in…
Fast Facts: City no longer a player in poverty reduction
Winnipeg falls further behind other cities with proposed budget cuts The City of Winnipeg’s preliminary operating budget for 2013 cuts spending on…