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The Global Economic Crisis—Part 2
Canadian Dimension posed a number of questions to three well-known economists to reflect on the roots of the crisis and what lies ahead, and to advance some progressive options. This week we publish the responses from Marjorie Griffin Cohen, economist and professor of Political Science and Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University.
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The Global Economic Crisis—Part 1
Canadian Dimension posed a number of questions to three well-known economists to reflect on the roots of the crisis and what lies ahead, and to advance some progressive options. This week we publish the responses from Jim Standford, author of Ecomonics for Everyone and economist with the Canadian Auto Workers, Canada’s largest private-sector trade union.
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Was CUPW Defeat Inevitable?
Trade unionists across Canada should feel shame in the wake of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers’ totally predictable crushing defeat by the jubilant Harpies. And we should finally feel a cold shiver of fear.
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Canada’s New Partisanship
On the morning after Election Day, supporters of the Conservative party were able breathe a sigh of relief that their troops were not defeated and replaced by a Liberal-NDP coalition. Conversely, the news that Stephen Harper would be heading-up a majority government came as a cold shower to those hoping that a progressive coalition would lead the country into a new day.
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The federal NDP’s electoral breakthrough in Quebec: A challenge to progressives in Canada
If Jack Layton’s election-night speech to his Toronto supporters is an indication of what lies ahead, the NDP is going to have a hard time coming to terms with a parliamentary caucus now composed of a majority of MPs from Quebec.
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Canada has come down in the world
When we look at the leaders of the parties in an election we ask ourselves, even unconsciously, would we want them as neighbours. Would they borrow my lawnmower and bring it back? Would they pitch in and help if the neighbourhood needed cleaning up or would they take off to Timmy’s for the afternoon?
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The Conservative Deficit
‘Economist’ is just a Greek word for ‘household manager.’ We all have households of one sort or another. Managing them is not rocket science. So why do governments seem to have such a hard time managing the Canadian household, especially Conservative governments?
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Unwelcome election
Hostility to electoral democracy and who do we think of? These days its Omar Gadhafi of Libya, Laurent Gbagbo of Cote d’Ivoire or, if you are really daring, maybe the Saudi royal family. But the discourse of our current election campaign here in Canada should give us pause.
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F-35: $30 Billion Dollar Boondoggle
$18 billion, $30 billion—what’s a few zeros among politicians, eh? I don’t know about you, but in these post-recession penny pinching times, an extra zero or two makes a big difference when I’m trying to balance the household budget.
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Snake oil and the Myth of Corporate Social Responsibility
Nearly every major extractive industry player has adopted voluntary CSR policies or social sustainability statements and a growing body of consultants, socially responsible investors, and NGOs are debating how to promote it. However, ongoing violations of human rights beg the question: is talking in terms of CSR useful to those trying to seek justice for harms committed by Canadian multinationals?
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