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Lowering Our Standards
The right-wing Fraser Institute has released a paper that, if implemented, would dramatically lower our standards for worker pay, workers’ rights and…
Debt, Austerity, and Devastation
Creditors get fatter financially, their victims get thinner Like plague in the 14th century, the scourge of debt has gradually migrated from…
Work Life: That’s What Unions Do
Back in February, 2013, CCPA-Mb put out a Fast Facts titled Six Unions: One Voice1 which chronicled the many problems faced by…
BC government to blame for looming BC Hydro rate increases
BC Hydro rates are going up. In its rate application hearing before the BC Utilities Commission last year, BC Hydro forecast increases…
Where Icebergs are Born
Nearly all the icebergs in the North Atlantic start in this place. Disko Bay, Greenland, is littered with ice as far as…
SaskNotes: The Government of Canadaʼs Legacy of Contamination in Northern Saskatchewan Watersheds
Download 936.91 KB10 pages Beaverlodge Lake, a 57 square kilometer water body, and three other watersheds in northern Saskatchewan are seriously contaminated…
Will CETA Help Tories…Or Hurt Them?
With Prime Minister Harper making the diplomatic rounds in Europe, media interest has heightened this week regarding the potential free trade agreement…
The EU wants a wide-open banking system. We should say no.
The stakes are high in the last stages of the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) talks, yet there remains a…
Gov’t investment in postsecondary education more than pays for itself: study
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA— Public investment in postsecondary education is paid back to governments in full and helps…
Future of Canada’s submarine program is in doubt, report finds
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA – A new report on the future of Canada’s submarine program has just been…
The Latin American Revolution (Part XX)
Union in Colombia battles anti-union Canadian oil company In May 2012, the third edition of my report Profiting from Repression: Canadian Investment…
Investor alert: TSX over-valued due to a “carbon bubble”
Canada’s economic development model is on a collision course with the urgent need for global climate action. Worldwide, extreme weather events from…