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COVID-19: Neoliberalism’s Chernobyl
COVID-19 has been called neoliberalism’s Chernobyl with good cause. The capacity of our public system to adapt in the face of a…
Brad Wall Hydro Report Brings Privatization Failures to Manitoba
For Immediate Release (Winnipeg): The province of Manitoba’s commissioned Economic Review of Bipole III and Keeyask report by Brad Wall recommends privatization…
Fast Facts: The government of Manitoba is failing Manitobans every step of the way in their pandemic response and needs to do better
No one in the world has had all the answers, and there are bound to be mistakes and missteps. But the chronic…
CCPA joins global campaign to #MakeAmazonPay
Amazon’s rise from online bookseller to trillion-dollar global logistics, internet, merchandising and entertainment behemoth was fast and ferocious. Behind the same-day deliveries and…
COVID-19 drug and vaccine patents are putting profit before people
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Canadian standards for long-term care could right COVID-19 wrongs: Experts
TORONTO, VANCOUVER—Two veteran seniors care researchers have detailed federally mandated standards to reform long-term care amid a second wave of COVID-19 in…
Fast Facts: Capital interests – health and education in Manitoba during COVID
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press November 12, 2020 The Constitution of Canada identifies health care and education as primary responsibilities…
The Swiss origins of the U.S.–Canada aluminum fight
The aluminum spat between the United States and Canada, as urgent as it seemed a few weeks ago, will have faded from…
Work Life: Stella’s Strike – It’s About Fairness
The strike at Stella’s Restaurant on Sherbrook St. in Winnipeg places the verse of the old labour song, “Which side are you…
Fast Facts: One hell of a winter unless province steps up on EIA and housing
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press October 19, 2020 Can you imagine your grandma deciding that sleeping outside is safer than…
The Monitor, November/December 2020
Democracy in free fall? Download 9.95 MB Donald Trump makes people sick, himself and his entourage included. Given the U.S. president’s shameful,…
BC Solutions: News and commentary from the CCPA’s BC Office
October 2020 Download 5.22 MB12 pages In this issue: British Columbians want a more equitable, sustainable economy post recovery—regardless of party affiliation…