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Nova Scotians subsidizing minimum wage employers: report
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT HALIFAX: Nova Scotia has not had a real minimum wage increase in more than 20…
May 2005: Canadian Workers’ Rights Assaulted
Collective bargaining more an illusion than a right Based on the premise that labour rights are human rights, Canadians have seen a…
New CCPA report makes the case against more corporate tax cuts
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—Despite outraged business and media reaction to the NDP’s demand for rescinding a new round…
The Pains of Health Care Privatization
Guess who does the cooking and cleaning in BC hospitals and nursing homes? If you answered “mostly women,” you would be right.…
Wage cuts and contracting out of health support jobs harming workers and health care system: reports
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) On the first anniversary of BC’s health…
April 2005: No News is Bad News
Does it do any good to complain about mass media failings? Journalism was always the career I wanted, almost from the time…
April 2005: Another Reason To Be Glad We’re Not Americans
Our CPP is safe from Bush—so we can make it even better George W. Bush has made the privatization of the U.S.…
Time to draw a line in the sand on the softwood lumber dispute—report
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—It’s time to play hardball with the US Administration on the long-running softwood lumber dispute,…
Government Moving Under Radar to Align Policies, Regulations to the U.S.—Report
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—The federal government’s soon-to-be-released foreign policy review will say little, if anything, about one of…
Getting the most bang for our bucks
AFB technical paper calls for social reinvestment over tax cuts and debt repayment CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—In the…
February 2005: OPEC and the Alberta Advantage
Alberta’s oil riches created by OPEC, not by politicians or CEOs To fully understand oil-rich Alberta’s status as Canada’s most affluent province,…
December 2004: Medicare Still on Life-Support
Health accord flawed by poor accountability and enforcement The health care accord reached last September by the federal, provincial, and territorial first…