The common sense proposition of phasing out Alberta’s coal plants
In moving away from coal, Alberta would be in the mainstream of a trend that’s now picking up speed around the world.
In moving away from coal, Alberta would be in the mainstream of a trend that’s now picking up speed around the world.
We’ve seen effective campaigns around minimum wages and precarious work in the United States, sponsored in part by various unions.
Unions are democratic organizations that belong to their members. As such, they are an important voice in the democratic political process.
In a feature interview with Amanda Lang, host of CBC’s The Exchange with Amanda Lang, Broadbent Institute Chair Ed Broadbent spoke about inequality, politics, government, social democracy and more.
The Harry Kitchen Lecture in Public Policy was delivered by the Broadbent Institute’s Andrew Jackson, on April 8, 2015 to the Department of Economics at Trent University.
Now what Pope Francis needs to do, what we all need him to do, is to move ecological insights and imperatives from the margins of his church’s teachings to the centre of Catholic moral teaching, to make them critical to the identity of the faithful in the world.
Perversely, governments get captured by the staple industry and lock the country in. Our currency becomes a petro-dollar, our state a petro-state.
Harper’s fierce opposition to national child care is no fluke. Child care is but the latest battlefield in an ongoing war between social democratic and neoliberal proponents of the proper role of government.
It is hardly surprising, in view of all these retrograde developments in the job market, that inequality is increasing.