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Moving Forward: Alternative Federal Budget puts the surplus to work
OTTAWA—The federal government has the resources to maintain and build on the commitments made in the 2004-05 minority Parliament and use upcoming…
April 2006: Americanizing the Restriction of Canadians’ Rights
Security overtaking trade as driver of “deep integration” At the time the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and later the North American Free…
April 2006: The False Gods of Public Education
Our flawed school system in need of fundamental changes As a teacher and researcher in Ontario and abroad for 50+ years, I…
April 2006: Taxing Our Credulity
Mad about paying taxes? OK, but is your anger well-directed? April is tax-paying month and many low- and middle-income Canadians labouring over…
April 2006: Selling Off Our Country
Takeovers place key Canadian industries in foreign hands In the late 1960s and throughout the first half of the 1970s, Canadians became…
March 2006: The Big Business Bang Theory (III)
A Canada with Scandinavian-style equality is achievable Several e-mails have reached me from readers who agree with my “Big Business Bang Theory”…
$6 wage doesn’t help youth, it discriminates against them
The idea that people should be paid equally for work of equal value is not exactly new. It has been recognized internationally…
Public solutions to health care wait lists
Waits for care are the biggest political issue facing Canadian health care—a priority reflected in the accord reached by the federal and…
Turning a blind eye to employers who break the law doesn’t solve the problem
Imagine if one day our police forces were cut in half, street patrols were eliminated, police stations closed, and people were told…
Action plan shows more stable future for forest communities is possible
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. VANCOUVER–A study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says there is no shortage of…
December 2005: Our Dangerous Energy Addiction
Nuclear power badly flawed as alternative to filthy fossil fuels “It still amazes me that people don’t know that their power comes…
December 2005: The Right to Privacy—A New Oxymoron?
Our privacy shield is getting badly battered on every front Privacy is an extremely complex human value, but it boils down to…