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May 26, 2017  Aeroplan is a potent warning about corporate financing run amokAir Canada has fared much better since its executives abandoned financial engineering in favour of actually running an airline. Real prosperity can't come from buying and selling pieces of paper. |
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May 23, 2017  Canada and Western Sahara — Africa's last remaining colonyYves Engler Recent seizure of phosphate from a Moroccan state company in South Africa and Panama is a blow to corporate Canada, victory for national independence struggles and should embarrass Canadian media. |
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May 21, 2017  Food Secure Canada´s advice for a coherent National Food PolicyIn the coming weeks, the federal government is expected to launch its consultation on a national food policy. Food Secure Canada has put its recommendations into this discussion paper. |
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May 20, 2017  Canadian banks dominate Caribbean's unsavoury financial sectorYves Engler CIBC is a major player in the region and has been linked to various tax avoidance schemes. Ottawa shaped post-independence Caribbean banking regulations. |
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May 19, 2017  Brad Wall's salvo on Saskatchewan carbon tax and transfers off targetErin Weir Why is Wall making noise about an equalization formula that does not affect transfers to Saskatchewan while keeping quiet about a transit funding formula that massively short-changes our province? |
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May 12, 2017 WATCH: Canadian Labour Congress street party delivers message to Bay StreetOn May 11, 2017 activists and delegates of the Canadian Labour Congress gathered at the most hallowed ground of Canada's financial elites, for a street party, and to deliver a message. |
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May 11, 2017  With new bank, Canadians will pay for infrastructure but investors will own itWith the help of heavy hitters from Wall Street, Bill Morneau has been designing a radical new bank that will deliver some of Canada's infrastructure into the hands of private investors. |
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May 11, 2017  The ecological and social disaster that is Barrick Gold exists to make money for capitalistsYves Engler If it had to justify its existence beyond making money for capitalists, Barrick Gold would have ceased to exist. |
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May 10, 2017  Anti-poverty activists urge Ontario to focus on poverty reduction, not just basic incomesMeagan Gillmore Anti-poverty activists are calling Ontario's announcement of a basic income pilot project for low-income adults a positive first step, but say more must be done to help people living in poverty. |
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May 10, 2017  Long work hours don't work for people or the planetDavid Suzuki We work the same hours as 20th century labourers, depleting Earth's resources to produce more goods that we keep working to buy, use and replace in a seemingly endless consumer cycle. |
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May 9, 2017  Ontario's guaranteed basic income pilot misses mark, labour leaders sayMeagan Gillmore Labour leaders in Ontario are criticizing the provincial government's plans to pilot a guaranteed basic income, saying it doesn't address a broken social assistance system and precarious job market. |
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May 9, 2017  France elects a self-described progressive as presidentIn his campaign, Macron was able to strike a progressive pose -- especially with Marine Le Pen as a debating partner. More will be known about his priorities once he assumes presidential office. |
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May 9, 2017  The TPP is trying to make a sneaky comeback – so let's send it back to its graveMarie Aspiazu Corporate greed has insatiable thirst and so, lobbyists are gathering in Toronto to try and resurrect the infamous TPP. But we are not going to let that happen, so here's the plan. |
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May 5, 2017  French election speaks to the pointlessness of politics under globalizationIf political acts, like voting, are meaningless under globalization, that makes some sense of the refusal by normally left voters to turn out for Hillary, leading to Trump's victory. |
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May 3, 2017  Back from the grave -- secret TPP talks to resume in TorontoDavid Christopher As Toronto hosts two days of high-level TPP talks in an undisclosed location, civil society groups warn that TPP cannot be the basis for Canada's future trade relationships |
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Apr 26, 2017  Donald Trump helps build the case for Rachel Notley's social license policy on energy exportsDavid J. Climenhaga Conservative Canadian politicians who crossed the border to campaign for Donald Trump should probably be thinking about what to say when the issue comes up in public. |
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Apr 22, 2017  NAFTA renegotiations must be done through the lens of climate changeJohn Dillon Canada, and not just Mexico, may be in for a rough ride when it renegotiates NAFTA with the United States. When it comes to fighting climate change, however, the ride will be rougher. |
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Apr 20, 2017  Universal basic income: Yea or nay?Needs No Introduction Will a guaranteed basic income release people from the poverty trap or keep them in it? A spirited debate exploring the issues from both sides and all points between. |
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Apr 18, 2017  Ho-hum budget delivers little vision or action on agricultureThe Liberals tabled another "stay-tuned" budget, with little commitment and definitely little vision for how the agricultural economy of this country might be best developed in the public interest. |
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Apr 14, 2017  When talking guaranteed basic income, let's not forget the need to contest powerWhat if the owning and renting classes simply view a basic income as another source to be scarfed up, so it ends up merely expanding the gulf between the rich and the rest? |
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Apr 12, 2017  Climate action is healthcare outside the clinic It has taken health professionals a long time to generate an effective response to the threat climate change poses to health but we are now at the bedside, and the resuscitation has begun. |
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Apr 12, 2017  Making free trade into fairer trade: The work of Third World NetworkBy supporting TWN in developing and advancing their critique with decision-makers and civil society, our shared goal is that free trade becomes fairer trade. |
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Apr 12, 2017 Making free trade into fairer trade: The work of Third World NetworkBy supporting TWN in developing and advancing their critique with decision-makers and civil society, our shared goal is that free trade becomes fairer trade. |
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Apr 8, 2017  Heading into the provincial election, British Columbians demonstrate concern for inequalityShannon Daub British Columbians want income to be much more equally distributed than they believe it to be now. However, voters significantly underestimated B.C.'s overall income inequality. |
