Recently added articles from CCPA Monitor:
POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY: Alternative Budget plan would narrow the income gap
Mar 01, 2009; ... A decade of blistering economic growth in Canada has just ended, leaving behind a dramatically widened gap between the rich and the rest of us. This is the first time in almost a century that such strong, sustained economic growth did not result in widespread prosperity for the majority ...
EDITORIAL: Two-tier health care
Mar 01, 2009; ... Canada's universal public health care system continues to deteriorate. Waiting times for all but emergency treatments get longer. Hundreds of thousands of Canadians are denied family doctors. Many with limited incomes go without the prescription drugs they need because pharmaceuticals are still ...
Worth Quoting
Mar 01, 2009; ... Political realities "The student of politics must be on guard against the old words, for the words persist when the reality that lay behind them has changed. It is inherent in our intellectual activity that we seek to imprison reality in our description of it. Soon, long before we ...
CCPA's Harper Record book goes to second printing
Mar 01, 2009; ... Our pre-election book The Harper Record was so popular that all the published copies were sold by the end of January. However, because of the demand for this informative book about the Harper government, it has now gone to a second printing. Those who were too late to get copies before ...
INDEX Afghanistan
Mar 01, 2009; ... The population of Afghanistan is 22 million, of whom 14 million are under the age of 18. Life expectancy is 43. Only 23% of the people have access to safe drinking water, 12% to sanitation. Maternal mortality is the second highest in the world, with an Afghan woman dying in childbirth every 30 ...
ESPECIALLY IN A RECESSION- Private sector couldn't survive without public spending
Mar 01, 2009; ... Many conservative politicians and business executives have denounced rather than acclaimed the economic stimulus plans recently launched by governments in the United States and Canada. They charge that, instead of reviving the sick economy, massive additional government spending will be poured ...
A WORLD WITHOUT SATIRE: CanWest sues satirists for their Vancouver Sun parodies
Mar 01, 2009; ... "What is the use of writing, if not to challenge the blockade imposed by the system on the dissenting message?" -Eduardo Galeano. Imagine a humourless political landscape without Adbuster-like spoof ads, where shows such as This Hour Has 22 Minutes can't use Mountie garb to ...
A BACKWARD-LOOKING FEDERAL BUDGET: Budget 2009 fails to provide needed economic stimulus
Mar 01, 2009; ... For Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the only thing that matters about his government's 2009 budget is that it meets the political imperatives he imposed on himself with his disastrous December fudget-budget. But for Canadians, the only thing that really matters is how effective the budget ...
MAKING THE WORLD SAFE FOR U.S. OIL COMPANIES: Afghanistan war has nothing to do with "fighting terrorism"
Mar 01, 2009; ... The Pentagon pushes hard for a large increase in troops for Afghanistan. Barack Obama has been calling for the same since well before the November election. Listen to the drumbeats telling us that the security of the United States and the Free World necessitates increased action in Afghanistan ....
AN AFGHAN JOURNALIST'S VIEW: More Afghans shifting support from invaders to Taliban
Mar 01, 2009; ... By Khabaryal There is an Afghan proverb that goes: "The power of the people is equal to the power of God." It's a way of saying: "Ignore people power at your peril." It was due to this power that seven years ago the Afghans, supported by only a few thousand American-led foreign troops, ...
THE TRUEHOPE STORY: Victims of mental ills are helped by natural supplement
Mar 01, 2009; ... In the summer of 2000, Jerry Oler was at the end of her rope. She had been living with bipolar and obsessive compulsive disorder for 37 years. She'd attempted her first suicide at the age of 14, and had been hospitalized 18 times. "I'd tried all the drugs," she tells me. "I was getting ...
A FAIR COUNTRY: Telling hard truths about Canada that few Canadians know
Mar 01, 2009; ... A FAIR COUNTRY: Telling hard truths about Canada that few Canadians know A Fair Country: Telling Truths About Canada, by John Ralston Saul, Penguin Group (Canada), 340 pages, hard cover $34.00 Review by Roy LaBerge Canadian philosopher and novelist John Ralston Saul has written ...
THE FUTURE CONTROL OF FOOD: A guide to biodiversity, food security rules and problems
Mar 01, 2009; ... THE FUTURE CONTROL OF FOOD: A guide to biodiversity, food security rules and problems The Future Control of Food, A Guide to International Negotiations and Rules on Intellectual Property, Biodiversity and Food Security, edited by Geoff Tansey and Tasmin Rajotte, 266 pages, Earthscan, London, ...
OUR AUTISTIC ECONOMIC LEADERS: Economics students are demanding "non-autistic" economics
Mar 01, 2009; ... "From the 1960s onward, neoclassical economists have increasingly managed to block the employment of non-neoclassical economists in university economics departments and to deny them opportunities to publish in professional journals. They also have narrowed the economics curriculum that ...
The P.M. in a smokescreen
Mar 01, 2009; ... Prime Minister Jim Hacker was a non-smoker, so he tended to agree with his Minister of State for Health, Dr. Peter Thorn, that the U.K. government should take drastic legislative steps against the tobacco industry. His proposals included a ban on cigarette advertising, a ban on smoking in public ...
SAVING THE SEVEN SEAS: Factory fishing is turning the world's seas into dead zones
Mar 01, 2009; ... It was summer 2002 when fishermen between the towns of Florence and Lincoln on the north-west Pacific coast of the United States began hauling in their pots only to find them full of dead crabs. Tourists then reported finding dead fish and worms washed up on beaches, and divers found the sea-bed ...
THE GREEN COLLAR ECONOMY: One solution can fix our two biggest problems. Here's how
Mar 01, 2009; ... THE GREEN COLLAR ECONOMY: One solution can fix our two biggest problems. Here's how The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems, by Van Jones with Arian Conrad, Harper One, 237 pages, hardcover, $25.99. Review by Roy LaBerge According to author Val ...
THINKING THE UNTHINKABLE: Global meltdown now inevitable, even if Kyoto targets met
Mar 01, 2009; ... Sometimes we need to think the unthinkable, particularly when dealing with a problem as dangerous as climate change. There is no room for dogma when considering the future habitability of our planet. It was in this spirit that I and a panel of other specialists in climate, economics and ...
THE TEMPLES OF DOOM: Mayan civilization collapsed when at its peak of power
Mar 01, 2009; ... The ruins lie silent and abandoned in the heart of the jungle: blocks of stone surrendered to the vines, which twist and writhe over temples, plazas, and pyramids. Weeds and forest creatures have colonized the inner sanctums; mahogany and cedar trees swallow what once were roads, blotting out ...
Health experts blast gov't funding of asbestos lies
Mar 01, 2009; ... The Canadian government is funding the perversion of scientific information about asbestos, health experts charged recently in a letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper. The experts, from several universities across Canada, demanded that the government stop funding the Chrysotile ...