Banks’ Obscene Profit = Child Poverty
First quarter (3 month) bank profits in Canada were $5.3 billion for the big six banks. The Conference Board of Canada reports that Canada ranks 15 of 17 in the developed world regarding child poverty rates. The child poverty rate increased by 2% between the mid-90s and the mid-00s. Should the world really Follow Canada’s [...]
Liveblogging the BC Ombudsperson’s Presentation on Seniors’ Care
This afternoon BC Ombudsperson Kim Carter will be speaking to at the BC Health Coaltion’s Seniors’ Forum in Burnaby. She released her interim report in December 2009 called “The Best of Care: Getting It Right for Seniors in British Columbia (Part 1)”. We expect her final report before summer sets in. Her talk starts at [...]
No One Is Illegal – Ignite resistance ~ Canadian multiculturalism is not enough!
No One Is Illegal – Vancouver » Blog Archive » Ignite resistance ~ Canadian multiculturalism is not enough!. In a world where the deregulated global market capitalist regime is imploding, there is wide open space to re-frame the local, national and global economy in a socially and economically just way. An off-shoot of this progressive [...]
BC’s Throne Speech: Already a Huge Disappointment
The BC government is in a self-orchestrated bind. Later today they release their throne speech for this legislative session, 6 days late. In a fit of transparent and predictable governing, which turned out to be only a veneer, the government committed to fixed election dates, throne speeches and budgets. Circumstances, however, can really cramp such [...]
Welcome Back to Civilization, America!
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Canada: "Economic Injustice for the Poor!"[tm]
Just to start off, any country that spends the post-Cold War period eroding its progressive tax system so that the richest 1% of families pay a lower tax rate than the poorest 10% of families is just offensive. And I don’t care about the relative dollar value of tax paid by these two groups. The [...]
Child Sexual Abuse Treatment: BC Government Lies About Underfunding
Some lessons to heed from question period this week: 1. BC’s neoLiberal party abuses Freedom of Information requests to make themselves look good and justify leaving abused children vulnerable. 2. BC’s neoLiberal party has lied about the need for better funding for treating children who have suffered sexual abuse. 3. The installation of a Representative [...]
Children of Poor Families in NDP Ridings are Worth Less than Children in neoLiberal Ridings
“The provincial distribution goals were met.” – Minister of State for Childcare, Linda Reid, October 24, 2007. I’m sure the government isn’t lying when they say that 53% of the 2,000 booster seats handed out to poor families in BC went to people in NDP ridings. “We achieved geographic reach across British Columbia.” – Linda [...]
Some Simple Homelessness Arithmetic
BC’s 2006-2007 Budget Surplus: $4.1 billion Homeless people in Vancouver: 2,000 Homeless people in BC: 5,000 Cost of a home we could have purchased for each of BC’s homeless people with last year’s budget surplus: $820,000 Here are a few options. Share the Love: Twitter del.icio.us email RSS Facebook Google Bookmarks Digg LinkedIn StumbleUpon Technorati [...]
Please Urinate BEFORE Reading This
I HAVE warned you. It’s from here, Things My Girlfriend And I Have Argued About [bookmark it now]: It’s getting worse. I’ve mentioned this, in passing, before, but it’s getting worse. We were watching Hannibal on DVD the other week, and Margret was sitting beside me, looking at the screen, right from the moment I [...]
Unspinning the Bush Veto Spin
Not that Bush needs to veto much. He simply issues signing statements indicating the executive branch will not abide by this or that of the legislation he’s signing. Soft Fascism ‘R Us. But now the folks at the radically right Media Research Center have spun coverage of this nasty veto thusly: Again exploiting children and [...]
Gay pride versus the mayor of Truro…by Daniel Peters
As a change of pace from the usual west coast madness on this blog, I present a bit of madness from the east coast. This weekend’s Gay Pride parades and other activities in Nova Scotia’s Pictou County have been in the news for the last week. It seems that the city council of Truro decided [...]
Women: Staying Unequal to Preserve Marital Peace…by Jen Keefe
This is in response to Lidia Lovric who writes for the province. The article I’m responding to [see below] showed up in today’s paper. Having read Lidia Lovric’s previous neo-conservative anti-feminist articles, it is clear that the implication of her most recent article, “A woman president is OK, but is the White House Ready for [...]
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