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Fast Facts The First Rung on the Ladder: community-based literacy programming in public housing complexes
A wealth of evidence—both global and local—confirms the value of literacy and the importance of programs that promote literacy. This is especially…
Modi and the criminalization of Indian politics
The election of Narendra Modi as India’s prime minister in May, with strong backing from the country’s capitalist class, placed a mass…
Temporary foreign workers need more rights, not better enforcement of flawed policy
On June 20, Minister of Employment and Social Development Jason Kenney announced a raft of changes to the federal Temporary Foreign Worker…
Ten areas of regulatory failure that contributed, directly or indirectly, to the Lac-Mégantic disaster
My report, Willful Blindness?, released today, summarizes the regulatory failures behind the Lac-Mégantic tragedy. The federal government has so far not acknowledged…
New report chronicles regulatory failures behind Lac-Mégantic
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—In advance of tomorrow’s Transportation Safety Board (TSB) final report into why a train loaded…
Piqued by Piketty
It seems rather clear that the main theories in French economist Thomas Piketty’s best-seller Capital in the Twenty-First Century are irritating a number of…
July 1st: Tenants Have No Reason To Celebrate
Each year, Canada Day coincides with Moving Day in Quebec. For the luckiest in the lot, the celebrations include heat and sweat,…
Navigating Canada’s complex terrain of student financial assistance
OTTAWA—Student aid systems in Canada are intricate, elaborate, and, in many cases, thoroughly unmanageable, says a study released today by the Canadian…
Temporary Foreign Worker Program changes – who do they help?
The Conservative Government’s Minister of Employment and Social Development, Jason Kenney, announced on June 20th 2014 a raft of changes to the federal…
Why You Should Care About Austerity
Québec’s government has radically reduced its spending growth because it has decided that we need to tighten our belts collectively. Since spending growth…
We need a new approach to tackle Canada’s growing privacy deficit
Canadians everywhere have a new reason to thank the Supreme Court after a historic judgment on June 13 threw government spying plans…
The Latin American Revolution (Part XXIII)
Destabilization campaign continues in Venezuela Since February, continuing protests, many of them violent, against the socialist government of President Nicolás Maduro have…