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Beyond Banksters is an eye-opening exposé of a ravenous financial system
A review of Beyond Banksters: Resisting the New Feudalism, by Joyce Nelson, Watershed Sentinel Books, 164 pages, $20.00Over the course of my…
The Monitor, January/February 2017
Building a Progressive Tax System Download 7.18 MB It feels a bit counterintuitive, after a tumultuous 2016, to be talking about the…
Ce qu’il reste de l’université publique
Les universités québécoises sont en crise, et ce, depuis longtemps. Jamais, dans notre histoire récente, n’avons-nous pu leur donner une orientation claire.…
Fast Facts: Responding to the Fentanyl crisis
Constructing better drug policy in Manitoba First published on CBC online Dec 3, 2016 Increasing tragic deaths from Fentanyl are raising calls…
Work Life: Honouring Ellen Olfert, founder of SAFE Workers of Tomorrow
Honouring Ellen Olfert, founder of SAFE Workers of Tomorrow In 1995, 19 year old Stephen Nicholson was on the job site working…
Why progressives oppose Canada-EU trade deal
Photo credit: Olaf Brostowski, Flickr Creative Commons Seven years after negotiations began on the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), the…
Canada-EU trade deal undermines public interest regulation, workers: study
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Ottawa and Berlin—A new transatlantic study finds that the proposed Canada–European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement…
Work Life: City of Winnipeg should study benefits of in-house waste collection
This fall Winnipeg City Council will determine the future of waste and recycling collection in our city. Current contracts with Emterra Environmental…
CETA investment reforms come up short
New regulations apply the same flawed and biased investor protection rules that exist under the current ISDS regime Earlier this year, International…
Fracking has no place near critical dams or reservoirs
Last year, a dubious record was set when a magnitude 4.6 earthquake was triggered near Fort St. John during a natural gas…
TPP poses unnecessary risks to Canada’s postal services: report
Ottawa—A new assessment of the Trans-Pacific Partnership by two legal experts finds that the trade agreement’s provisions related to mail delivery and…