Canada

Canada's big-business newspaper considers squandering $31 billion (which doesn't include lots of large related expenses like policing services) as necessary, "given Canadian political realities." The big-talk-no-action BC NDP could have changed those realities.      - Gene McGuckin

Mar. 14, 2023

Ontario’s Bill 60 has delivered a death blow to public medicare. The provincial medical system will no longer operate as a public service but as a profit-taking business managed by the private sector.

Mar. 17, 2023

Labour and the right might seem like strange bedfellows, but a history with nationalism left that door wide open.

According to a recent poll by Abacus Data, Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives are now the top choice of union members in Canada.

Web editor: And Canada........

Mar. 16, 2023

Mar. 16, 2023

Mar. 15, 2023

The $3-billion Cedar LNG facility proposed by the Haisla Nation has been granted an environmental assessment certificate by the provincial government - but critics say the approval does not support BC's climate goals. We hear from Peter McCartney with the Wilderness Committee.

Listen here: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-91-the-early-edition/clip/15972401-b.c.-approves-indigenous-led-cedar-lng-project

Mar. 15, 2023

Haisla Nation welcomes green light, but critics sound warning on threat to province’s climate plan.

Mar. 13, 2023

Mar. 14, 2023