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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…
December 2004: Good Debt, Bad Debt
Alberta is not “debt-free” when foreigners own its resources When the Premier of Alberta announced a few months ago that his province…
December 2004: The Right is Wrong and the Left is Right
Public opinion in Canada, as in the U.S., pulled to the right Reading Lewis Lapham’s chilling account in Harper’s of how public…
Follow the money, or risk squandering billions of public dollars on for-private health care–report
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA–If health-care activists don’t scrutinize where the recently announced over $41 billion in health-care spending…
New formula and multi-year financial commitment required to address Ontario’s education funding gap–report
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT TORONTO–While the commitments to education announced by the McGuinty government represent a real improvement over…
October 2004: Fair Trade vs. Free Trade
Principles of fair trade based on economic justice, human rights While the principles of “fair trade” have been around for a long…
Running on Empty
BC’s energy policy will leave us stranded To get a picture of how British Columbia uses energy, imagine the province as a…
Labour Deserves More Than Tip of Hat
John Hamm’s Labour Day message asks Nova Scotians to “honour the role of working people.” But such proclamations do little to address…
September 2004: A New “Social Architecture” For Canada?
Planned redesign of social programs could spur privatization Policy-makers are quietly and stealthily planning to redesign Canada’s social programs—or, in the jargon…
September 2004: All Debt Is Not Made Equal
Economics 101: Public debt is good, foreign investment bad Read the financial pages of our corporate press, or listen to your average…
Putting Economic Policy Back on the Election Table
In the 2004 election, economic issues have not been front and centre. Accountability, rights issues and health care have dominated the stage,…
June 2004: The Indymedia Phenomenon
The revolution won’t be televised, but it might be uploaded Wih the rise of “networked” society, we have seen the emergence of…