NDP MP calls for freeze on federal building sales
  Formal request made to Auditor General for investigation.

Public Service Alliance files in court over workers', women's constitutional rights
  Latest charter challenge claimants say Harper government hid regressive laws in budget.

"Buy Canadian" better option than binding trade agreements
  A joint statement on public procurement and the public good.

"Cult of outsourcing and privatizing" exposed in new Thomas Frank book
  The Wrecking Crew shows how conservative ideologues sabotage the state.

"Hidden horrors" of federal budget threaten waterways, students, women, workers
  Conservatives pursue deregulatory agenda by gutting environment assessment.

"Worst job crisis in a generation" needs job stimulus
  Revived manufacturing sector, green jobs, spending locally seen as solutions.

The Water Front: What happens when water is for profit?
  New documentary shows the stark reality of trying to make a buck off a basic necessity.

50 grassroots organizations reject energy sell-off in BC
  Environmental, indigenous, community and labour groups unite against privatized "run-of-the-river" power projects.

Aboriginal communities hold protest against poor public services
  March to Treasury Board President's office will demand action against privatization and crumbling infrastructure.

Action alert: Demand public disclosure of Ontario's planned regulatory cuts
  Government's role is to protect the public good, even in bad times.

AECL's viable assets to be sold
  Taxpayers will be on hook for liabilities and toxic assets.

Aggressive medical billing techniques confusing Canadians
  Friends of Medicare, OHC both report increase in calls and complaints.

Air France sues Pearson, Ottawa over 2005 crash
  Company charges feds, air-traffic control "cut corners" that contributed to disaster.

Airline deregulation puts private profit above public and industry
  Concessions by employees have gone straight into pockets of private investors.

Airlines ask Canadian safety inspectors to sign confidentiality agreements
  Safety Management Systems producing confusion as to who is responsible for air safety.

Alberta government gets it wrong
  Cutting infrastructure spending and focusing on P3s bucks global consensus, means less bang for the buck

Alberta health boss denies plan to privatize care
  Mexican project haunts board chair Ken Hughes.

Alberta publicly finances four high schools, cancels P3 project
  Ten elementary, middle schools will still be built with more expensive P3 model.

Alberta puts private industry in charge of public health administration
  New board chair is insurance industry investor.

Alberta union offers $500 prize for best video about health-care privatization
  Winning video to be posted on YouTube.

Alberta's electrical deregulation handed $500M bonanza to BC Hydro
  Contrary to expectations, free market has neither lowered prices nor increased generation for Albertans.

Albertans distrust those running their health care - CBC poll
  Professionals get higher marks than politicians and senior managers.

American health administrator says she can't protect public in profit-driven system
  Missouri state hospitals closing unprofitable mental health units.

Anti-privatization protests intensify in Phillippines
  Asian Development Bank (ADB) pushes privatization of water facilities across Asia.

Are Feds planning to remake Warkworth Penitentiary as privatized superjail?
  Local politicians want information from Minister for Public Safety Stockwell Day.

Atomic Energy to be privatized?
  Review of AECL is expected to be finished by the end of the year.

Auditor General, federal pilots association condemn lack of enforcement in airline safety
  Bill C-7 amendments would prevent self-reported violations from ever being made public, guarantee immunity.

BC auditor general red flags costly privatization scheme
  Involves US multinational EDS in collection of provincial revenue.

BC considers 30 percent cut to public services
  Province already has leanest public sector in Canada.

BC families losing ground to widening gap
  Study reveals 30-year decline in incomes for all but the richest.

BC government accused of fixing rail privatization deal
  Angry bidders cry foul in $1 billion scandal.

BC government taking action on illegal medicare fees
  Attempted crack down at some for-profit clinics.

BC poverty election issue as 200 organizations demand government action
  Open letter and petition gives concrete plan for taking on highest poverty rates in country, despite years of growth.

BC public employees join call for moratorium on private run-of-river power
  Groups want proper environmental assessments, local governance and community voices restored.

BC public-private partnerships (P3s) questioned by Auditor General, independent review called for
  "Bill of goods" being sold to Canadian taxpayers with privatization.

BC Utilities Commission pulls plug on government plans to privatize power
  Regulatory body confirms province's need for additional power was grossly exaggerated.

BC: Privatized hospital cleaning a failure
  Health and Safety reprimands, public complaints dog multinational contractor.

Big labour enlists guerilla theatre to battle private equity
  SEIU uses humour, absurdity to shed light on buyout kings, absentee owners.

Blue Summit inspired by search for "Water Justice"
  New trade deals could see further corporatization of water systems, many First Nation reserves without safe water for years.

Book looks at Reagan's legacy of deregulation
  Under Reagan, USA went from being the world's leading creditor to heaviest debtor.

Bottled Water Free Day campaign on March 11 in schools, universities, colleges
  Public infrastructure such as water fountains not being maintained or installed in new buildings.

Britain's private finance-based recovery going nowhere fast
  Infrastructure projects left by the wayside as banks backpedal hard.

British National Health Service would save $4.4 billion CAD if P3s bought back
  Research shows public-private building contracts no bargain.

British report sounds alarm on private-public funding schemes
  Canadian P3s modeled on failed British experiment.

British study: privatization of postal service threatens its future
  Benefits large companies, no benefit to users.

Budget 2010, too little for too many
  Public service freeze, cuts to corporate taxes, cities left to fend for themselves.

Budget a windfall for the wealthy
  In 2009-10 there is twice as much spent on a tax break for home renovations as spent on those with low incomes.

Budget, staff cuts cause "near collapse" of US security agency
  Federal Protective Service workforce has been cut 20 percent since 2004.

Bush administration makes final push to deregulate
  Last ditch effort to weaken dozens of government rules aimed at protecting consumers and the environment.

Bush Labor Department misled Congress in effort to privatize jobs
  Government Accountability Office report finds Department used fictional numbers to support savings claims.

Buy America provisions give away Canadian farm for little return
  Public services previously excluded from NAFTA now on the table with new deal.

Cafeteria kickbacks: corporate food companies bilk millions from taxpayers
  Fraudulent rebate schemes keep local providers out of school, hospital, government kitchens, critics charge.

Cafeteria kickbacks: unhealthy, unethical and pricey
  How food-service providers bilk millions from taxpayers.

Calculating risk in public-private hospitals
  CMAJ examines the pros and cons of public-private hospital construction.

Calgary privatization supporter getting cold feet
  Be wary, promised savings may never materialize, warns Herald columnist.

Campaign for protection of pensions, retirement security
  Hot issues for federal budget, two unions use social networking to highlight concerns.

Can municipalities afford to sell electric utilities?
  Revenue flow and control over core city function are lost.

Canada Post charged with unfair labour practices
  Charges include issueing misleading statements to its employees, disregarding provisions of the Canada Labour Code

Canada Post will not deregulate, thanks to fight-back campaign
  Preserving rural and small-town service remains a concern.

Canada spends one-half per capita on health than US does, yet we are healthier
  Government pleads poverty, yet proceeding with tax cuts to Ontario corporations.

Canada still needs child care
  Canadians have less access to services than those in 19 other countries.

Canada's public-private-partnerships arena attracting foreign players
  Large infrastructure projects leaving public, local control behind.

Canada's shrinking government adds to growing inequality
  Majority of tax cuts have benefited the corporate sector and the wealthy.

Canadian aviation accident statistics and analysis
  Charter air service has higher death rate than any other BC industry.

Canadian Federation of Independent Business, once again, publishes misleading federal-private payscale comparisons
  Appropriate comparisons shows public servants paid less, not more, than private sector counterparts.

Canadian Food Inspection Agency regulator fired for leaking government plan
  Canadians' health and safety risked by handing regulation to unaccountable private sector.

Canadian health care: fact or myth?
  Canadian psychologist working in US helps sort facts from fantasy.

Canadian income gap widens dramatically over last ten years, says OECD study
  Canada's spending lower, poverty higher than in other developed countries.

Canadians can't afford not to have a public drug plan
  Canadian Health Coalition releases report on public hearings.

Canadians don't trust private companies to keep food safe, poll shows
  Only 13 percent believe the food industry can be relied on to police itself.

Canadians get more public services than they pay for
  Families in middle 50 percent receive at least half their private incomes in benefits most take for granted - CCPA.

Canadians value public services over tax cuts: new poll
  Nanos Research shows broad support for social safety net in tough times.

Candidate Smitherman would privatize garbage, TTC
  Taking cue from feds and province, Toronto public services would be on the table.

CD Howe Institute still firing corporate spin at sinking tax ship
  Corporate tax contributions so low they could barely twist an ankle if they fell any further.

Children's mental health facility in Ottawa on brink of bankruptcy
  15 years of provincial underfunding called "slow moving train wreck".

City of Edmonton staff advise council to scrap P3 plans
  Rec centre will proceed as traditional "construction management project" after costs, concerns tallied.

Climate scientist claims Stephen Harper's government muzzled experts
  Says cabinet ignored input of scientists while preparing government's response to global warming.

CMA elects public-system champion for president
  Last two presidents owned, campaigned aggressively for private clinics.

Coke and Pepsi fear bottled water backlash
  Bottled water still more expensive than gas, carries high environmental price tag.

Communities demand bottling giant Nestle stop undermining local control of water
  Company currently in disputes in Canada and six US states.

Communities suffer as corporations target water systems
  New report shows service suffers, costs skyrocket under water privatization in USA.

Conservative MPs spearhead opposition to privatization of BC Crown coal terminal
  Sell-off seen as a job killer, loss of investment by taxpayers.

Conservatives provoking strike with federal public service
  PSAC fighting back with Think Public campaign

Conservatives rearranging the deck chairs at Public-Private Partnership office
  Feds fill top jobs at new P3 crown corporation, but don't expect speedy funding of infrastructure projects to follow.

Conservatives to eliminate meat inspection programs in three provinces
  Secret Treasury Board decision would cut inspection programs in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and British Columbia.

Consumers vs citizens
  Blame the mess the world is in on people acting like consumers and not like citizens.

Controversial safety management systems for air safety inadequate: Auditor General
  Federal inspectors inundated with paperwork, don't do hands-on inspections.

Court challenge to health-care privatization in Quebec
  Lawsuit contends Bill 33 undermines medicare.

Court-ordered private health insurance in Quebec finds no takers
  Health minister claims medicare works so well that private options irrelevant.

Critical government communications security project given to private sector
  Relinquishing control of public-interest project explained as money, risk and time-saving measure, despite other P3 failures.

Critics slam changes to aircraft safety inspection system
  Plans to hand over inspection and enforcement to industry moving ahead.

Cultural myth production is an enormous industry
  How corporations and television create a "Stockholm Syndrome of the soul".

CUPE Keynote Speech: Fight of our Lives
  Coalitions key to stopping privatization.

Daycare in New Brunswick gets 10-year government funding commitment
  Strategy outlines 39 initiatives aimed at services for early childhood education, parenting, child care.

Deaths of pilots, passengers merits no workplace investigation under airline safety regulatory freefall
  Bill C-7 and why the public should be aware.

Decisions today on Ottawa's Lansdowne Park
  Council to decide if landmark will be privatized and intensely developed, or kept public and whole.

Defend access to health care based on need: Medicare Pledge from Canadian Health Coalition
  On-line initiative to demonstrate support for public insurance.

Dependence on parent fundraising grows huge gap between public schools
  Trustees for Education discussion paper calls for equity in education.

Deregulated post-secondary education in BC gets failing grade
  Government washes hands of mess, tells students to sue substandard institutions.

Deregulation dies a sudden death in Washington, DC
  Food, financial debacles bring the 'R-word' back in fashion.

Deregulation in Nigeria met with promise of month of mass protests
  Issues of concern include a minimum wage, privatization of refineries

Deregulation of BC sewer system setting the stage for disaster: report
  Self-regulatory system open to conflict of interest, removes health officials' power to protect the public.

Do our federal politicians still believe in Canada?
  Bold, visionary national leadership needed, not more off-loading of responsibilities.

Doubling of profits for Britain's Royal Mail makes hard case for planned privatization
  Government is facing a rebellion from more than 150 Labour MPs over the sale.

Drug lobbyist resigns from Alberta public health panel
  Albertans have said time and again they want publicly delivered health-care - Brian Mason.

Dump Site 41 stopped: the public wins one for water
  Victory shows water management needs rethinking at all levels of government.

Economic crisis result of decades of deregulation
  Left to their own devices, markets create crises - George Soros

Economic crisis, P3s cut from the same cloth
  Research shows flaws in accounting, faulty assumptions.

Edmonton P3 wasn't such a hot idea
  City set to backtrack on agreement with consortium.

Edmonton privatizes public power utility behind closed doors
  Civic stakeholders, competitors find out about deal only after finalization.

Edmonton sells off sewage plant
  Sale could create problems under NAFTA.

Edmonton set to scrap P3 recreation centre
  Bid-winners' numbers, secrecy just don't add up.

Edmonton sewage plant stays public
  "Bargain-basement" deal shelved after community outcry.

Education IS a public matter
  Complaints about schools reveal privatization's real agenda.

Eighty-eight economists release open letter criticizing federal government
  Call on government to show leadership in stabilizing financial markets, stimulating real investment, and maintaining employment and incomes.

Election victory no mandate to gut health care in Alberta, says HSAA president
  Messages from new Health Minister's office resemble cost-cutting of '90s.

Ending privatized medicare in the USA
  US government subsidies enrich insurance companies at the expense of taxpayers and beneficiaries.

Ending the hidden agenda behind tax cuts
  What happens in the real world when this reasoning is taken to its logical conclusion?

EU still banking on financial deregulation in third world
  Critics charge strategy undermines poverty reduction, creates instability.

Federal government gets failing grade from Canadian Labour Congress for early childhood initiatives
  Flaherty's constituency office targeted by child care protest.

Federal scientists launch campaign to end self-policing in food industry
  Research, regulation, power to act in the public interest need to be restored.

Financial regime change?
  Say goodbye to the neoliberal paradigm that has held sway since the 1980s.

Financial world waits for return of regulatory oversight
  Former FDIC chairman says government's job is to keep greed in check.

Financing health care: is long-term sustainability possible?
  Report shows maintaining medicare is a matter of choice and political will, not government's ability to pay for it.

Focus on bottom line leaves social fabric to unravel
  Social infrastructure, not just bridges and roads, needs funding to function.

Food inspection deregulation a 'disaster'
  BSE-testing cut to save cash

Food inspectors balked at orders to rebrand Government of Canada
  Many balked at May orders to replace official term with 'Conservative Government'.

Food safety issues in US are far from resolved
  Outbreaks continue despite calls for stricter consumer protection

Food safety: Time to rethink control by the WTO
  For over a decade, governments forced to overturn public-interest laws or face trade sanctions.

Food safety: Why end government grain inspection?
  Study finds public safety, market confidence, grower's independence all at risk.

Foreign investment imperils child care
  Press conference cites Aussie experience, NAFTA rules.

Forensic accountant on BC P3s: higher costs, bias and secrecy
  Observers question government's continued commitment to P3 procurement.

Former aviation inspector: Transport Canada's "main concern was to get out of enforcement business"
  Tells Standing Committee of switch to SMS and self-regulation.

Framing wars: The public battle over privatization
  P3s are a solution looking for a problem.

Fraser Institute's school rankings more harm than good
  Standardized exams poor way of assessing students.

Free market ideology is far from finished
  Change won't happen without public pressure on politicians in this key period.

Frightened private investors derailing BC transit projects
  "If we're relying on private money, this is not the time to do it" — Port Moody mayor.

From British prisons to Winnipeg parking police
  What the 'Peg could learn from Keystone Capers of other governments who rushed out to privatize.

Frozen food producers admit global sourcing means no safety guarantees
  Cheapest ingredients worldwide come from countries no oversight or regulation.

GATS works to further hamstring regulators
  Briefing Paper by CCPA Explores New Draft of Proposed WTO Domestic Regulation.

Georgia may completely privatize troubled mental-health system
  Deaths of patients linked to already insufficient, poorly-trained staff.

Globalizers lose their faith
  Even former proponents full of doubt as crises ripple through system built on shaky pillars.

Government has a moral mission - George Lakoff
  Obama won because he identified empathy and aspiration, protection and empowerment as defining properties of democracy.

Government take-over brings BC P3 bridge under budget, ahead of schedule
  P3 deal's collapse saves $200 million, one year's time.

Great Lakes deal lifts diversion ban for bottling companies
  Legal precedent threatens 'severe harm' to Lakes, experts warn.

Half-hearted budget won't help the hard-hit
  Tax cuts, corporate handouts, minor benefits seriously underestimate the job at hand.

Hamilton airport sale to private investors would set precedent
  City motion would see "windfall" to pay for city's ageing infrastructure.

Harper ignores health risks for food
  Government meat inspectors' powers reduced in March without public discussion.

Harper's economic recovery plan: cut, and run from government responsibilities
  Conservatives still fixated on cutting costs at all costs, even in jobless, growthless economy.

Health Canada's drug safety procedures lacking, says study
  Rapid approval of drugs, no recall mechanism, puts public at risk.

Health Coalitions across Canada ask Federal, Provincial Health Ministers to do their jobs
  Report cites violations of the Canada Health Act and their consequences nationwide.

Health professionals seek action on national HR shortages
  Government must address growing shortage of health care professionals

Hidden Agenda for Public Broadcasting
  Gap grows between Conservative election policy and current stance.

High stakes secret review of Canada Post
  Conservative federal government could be quietly undoing this universal public service.

Home care workers face increased squeeze
  Health corporations were paying poverty wages even before conservative meltdown hit.

Housing, homelessness, health and the 2008 federal election
  Housing insecurity at record levels.

How Sault Ste. Marie avoided massive line-ups and anger at their H1N1 clinics
  More effective care in Canada needed to seamlessly link primary health care to public health.

How the Harper government pushed financial deregulation here and abroad
  Way cleared for US mortgage firms and easy credit, insured by Canadian taxpayers.

How the World Bank and the IFC helped create the financial crisis
  Lending shared important features with subprime loans in the US.

How to set up a corporate tax shell, with YouTube video
  Setting up in offshore tax haven of Panama as easy as ABC, intern learns.

How will Harper stimulate the economy?
  Possible policy scenarios include the good, the bad and the ugly.

Hydro Québec's decision to privatize wind power condemned
  Charest government's decision wrong, public union says.

IMF, international banks beg for state intervention
  Unfettered financial model bounces reality checks off market fundamentalists.

Inside the WTO's collapsed deal
  World's poor dodged disastrous policies when world trade talks failed.

International Coalition denounces World Water Forum's privatization agenda
  Speaker Maude Barlow defends drinking water as a public right, not corporate cash cow.

International company to bottle, export small town Ontario municipal water
  Plans include selling tap water back to local schoolchildren.

International consortium short on cash for BC public infrastructure project
  Private toll-bridge partners ask Victoria for more time — again.

International water privatization schemes failing
  Website chronicles high-profile private infrastructure disasters and return to public control.

Internet Storm
  Union urges CRTC to curb internet interference by Bell, Rogers.

Johannesburg High Court declares privatized, prepaid water meters unlawful & unconstitutional
  Orders city to provide full range of water delivery service options.

Labour head in Quebec suspended for questioning P3 project
  Public pressure by workers, concerned citizens causes quick reversal by city council.

Labour mobility spin sweetens secret deregulation and privatization agreement
  New legal challenges feared if TILMA-related changes to internal trade pact go through.

Lawyers love public-private partnerships
  Behind maturing, growth industry is Canada's desperate need for infrastructure renewal.

Letter from front line to Flaherty
  Instead of NSA corporate tax cuts, give tax credits for real investments in Canadian economy.

Listeria crisis reveals conflict of interest
  CFIA's mandate split between managing food safety and industry promotion.

Main Street, not Wall Street, should fix crumbling US infrastructure
  Public pension funds could help pave the way.

Mainstream media misses the boat on BC river privatization
  Power, tax revenues go south at a loss, local market prices triple.

Manitoba Telephones, ten years later
  Customers, workers, complain that privatized company puts profits before service.

Mantra of fiscal conservatism new phenomenon
  Rather than reduce government programs during recession, we used to increase them.

Many American doctors openly envy Canadians for their working conditions
  Private clinics in Canada undermining universality of health care.

Many critics of rail transit systems use inaccurate analysis: Victoria Transport Policy Institute
  Biased data often used when calling rail transit options ineffective.

Many P3 hospital deals, but little public scrutiny
  In Ontario alone, 19 hospitals are being financed and constructed by private sector.

Maryland rethinks utility deregulation: thousands face cut-off
  Service interruption stayed for 117,000 pending review of doubled, tripled rates.

McGuinty government wiping out elected hospital boards
  Ontario Health Coalition gets no answers from Ministry as to reasons.

Medicare supporters should stick to values arguments - Nik Nanos
  Pollster says Canadians are too complacent about universal health care.

Mexican oil reforms would cede sovereignty, critics charge
  Swell of national sentiment in support of constitution, national ownership.

Mexican voters say 'no' to privatizing oil
  Over 80 percent oppose Calderon's plan for oil industry.

Mexicans rally to oppose oil privatization
  Opponents of Mexican energy bill vow to take demonstrations nationwide.

Mexico: Oil privatization halted by mass protests
  "Citizen's army" operated in shifts to blockade government buildings.

Misinformation used in discussion of who "should" get hurt next in recession
  Government deficit estimated to be modest, easily addressed by modest tax increases than major spending cuts.

Montreal auditor general pulls plug on water meter privatization contract
  Rates hikes of 167 percent, spiraling costs, conflict of interest cited.

Moratorium on post office closures in doubt: CUPW
  Concerns about current Canadian-European Union trade talks, EU members to deregulate postal services by 2012.

Most Canadians see municipal infrastructure as key to quality of life
  New poll says 96 percent think funding should be maintained or increased, protected against future offloading.

Multinational child care corporation in financial meltdown
  Australian corporation was expanding into BC, Ontario and Alberta.

Municipal governments organize for protection from NAFTA, WTO
  Delegates to national conference demand open public consultation, protection for democratic governance.

Municipal privatization: What Winnipeg can learn from elsewhere
  Corporatizing utilities brings risks to public, but rewards private interests.

Museum strikes show no sign of settlement in sight
  Labour dispute threatens to disrupt the annual memorial celebrations including Remembrance Day.

Museum workers want protection against contracting-out
  Final offer does not protect workers, who call for arbitration.

NDP demands reinstatement of fired food inspection worker
  Says government attempting to hide issue from public.

New Brunswick being run by "shadow government", letter to the editor
  PV reader underlines value of social networking for grassroots organizing against sale of NB Power.

New Brunswick power deal axed
  Grassroots protest congratulated on putting pressure on government to abandon plan.

New Brunswick watchdogs keying in on P3 nursing homes deals
  Ombudsman, Auditor General to launch review of contract struck between provincial government and Shannex Inc.

New film: You, Me and the SPP
  What was the real agenda behind North America's overreaching security agreement? Market accessibility.

New fund backs local programming
  "No excuse to close stations or reduce local programming," says media union.

New poll shows overwhelming support for public health care
  CMA president's privatization agenda goes against Canadian current.

New poll: Canadians not on with selling off Crown corporations
  Harper government reintroduced idea in January's budget.

New public Peterborough hospital dramatically cheaper than public-private partnerships
  Comparison of costs raises questions about P3 funding practice.

New resources, research to help battle privatization in BC
  Lengthy contracts signed with private corporations to operate previously public services.

New Rule: Not everything in America has to make a profit
  US commentator asks: when did the profit motive become the new patriotism?

New Zealand reverses rail, ferry privatization
  Post sell-off decline of the asset "a painful lesson," Finance Minister says.

No US bank nationalisation without state control
  Bankers will not hesitate to enrich themselves at the expense of the public good.

Northern Ireland: Leaked memo exposes payroll privatization failure
  Civil servants get emergency cash after significant underpayments by contractor; other privatization reforms flounder.

Nuclear safety threatened by cost cuts
  Safe operation, adequate oversight worth more than possible savings of $7 million.

Number of new food inspectors: 57 – Number assigned to meat plant inspection: 0
  Despite promises, feds still focused on checking paperwork.

Obama's economic stimulus plans should include under-appreciated public water system
  Would create green jobs, counteract three decades of neglect.

OECD report touts privatizing Canada Post, power utilities
  Netherlands post office deregulated, now has decreased profits, higher postal rates.

On the heels of federal-provincial budget talks: a real plan to deal with the economic crisis
  Cutting interest rates is not enough

Ontario Auditor General slams Brampton P3 hospital
  Could have been built for millions less as fully public project.

Ontario Auditor General slams P3 hospital financing
  Total of $394 million more to build Brampton through private consortium; audit sought for Royal Ottawa's P3 deal.

Ontario Auditor General: $614-million Brampton Civic P3 cost $394-million too much
  There is no doubt P3s can be done better. But no one is asking whether they should be done at all.

Ontario community, labour and cancer groups fight American P3 incinerator contract
  Company well-known for labour and safety violations in US.

Ontario could sell off of crown corporations like "selling the family silver"
  Deficit is pretext for getting commercial assessment on lottery sales, hydro, liquor stores

Ontario home care contracts expiring, McGuinty may lift ban on competitive bidding
  Media campaign makes case for building public system, better working conditions.

Ontario hospitals condemn privatization of outpatient services
  Public labs cost only two-thirds that of private clinics.

Ontario MPP irate over illegal health charges
  PC member was charged $125 to book appointment.

Ontario still fixing problems in first for-profit prison
  Penetanguishene was Canada's first private superjail, run by American company.

Ontario's plans are financially stupid - Smokey Thomas
  Hiring US investment bank like "a vampire squid wrapped around face of humanity" squeezing money out.

Ontario: new "transactional" schools gaining ground
  Make education relevant and thought-provoking, not about regurgitating facts, proponents say.

Oppostion to Winnipeg plan to privatize half of waste water collection: Water Watch petition
  Contract could lead to future suits under Chapter 11 of NAFTA lessening public control.

Ottawa considering handing over control, redevelopment of Landsdowne Park to private sector
  CUPE: Lansdowne Partnership Plan does not follow control and accountability guidelines

Ottawa federal cleaners better off twenty-five years ago than today
  Union fights harassment and intimidation to organize office cleaners in Ottawa – SEIU.

Ottawa museum workers win after 12-week strike
  Issues settled include contracting out, temporary workers can become permanent after 24 months

Overwhelming majority of Canadians back public health care
  Canadians have no appetite for further privatization, pollster finds.

P3 for Quebec City hospital going nowhere
  Hospital administration asks province to drop efforts to fund facility as private-public partnership.

P3 hospital construction costs more, delivers less than proposal
  Specifics of cost overruns, service cuts and cover-up in the Brampton Hospital P3.

P3s: Risky, expensive, inefficient and undemocratic
  Are public-private partnerships a new revenue stream for corporate interests?

Pan-European citizens' coalition seeks moratorium to protect public water from privatization
  European Commission pushing privatization of water services.

Paris Mayor returns municipal water services to public hands
  Is the global water privatization trend ending?

Paris water public again, California resisting privatization
  California groups to launch media campaign against water bond, Victoria poised to reject sewage privatization.

Parliamentary probe launched into listeriosis outbreak
  Opposition parties demand to know what's going on behind closed doors.

Part-time college workers struggle to organize in Ontario
  Refusing to count ballots in part-time faculty vote is one of many stalling tactics - OPSEU.

PEI health care workers unite against privatized nursing homes
  Activists lead forceful opposition to P3 mindset.

PEI nursing homes stay public
  Government scraps privatization plan in wake of widespread backlash.

Pennsylvania Turnpike lease numbers too good to be true
  Democratic state senator analyzes the deal in detail.

PIPSC Submission to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance 2008
  Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada

Pitfalls for professionals in public-private partnerships
  Becoming "partners" in business ventures with government can bring unwelcome, untenable risks.

Plan to privatize AECL like dismantling Avro
  Would jettison only most valuable portions, keep money-losers as Crown assets.

PM urged to "put people first" in budget
  Economic recovery needs quality public services, retirement security, adequate EI benefits.

Police probe Montreal university P3 deal
  Criminal investigation comes on the heels of provincial auditor's report.

Poll shows majority of Albertans oppose health cuts
  Staying the course, not delisting services, desired by 62 percent of respondents.

Poll: 69 percent want Canada Post to keep delivering the goods
  Nearly 400 municipal councils pass resolutions against postal service deregulation.

Poll: Canada wants public services
  New national study shows majority of Canadians trust municipal government more than private corporations to deliver public services.

Port Moody dumps privatized garbage collection
  Contracted-out service called "embarassing" by mayor, pledges city will do the job right.

Postal employees being set up to be "problem" in Canada Post challenges
  Corporation wants tories to reassess pledge to maintain moritorium on rural closures.

Post-Katrina New Orleans is "SPP made real"
  Recovery led by profiteers, volunteers and NGOs rather than the public sector.

Premier Williams cross-border health care, world class cardiac unit in Toronto
  More Americans come here for cardiac care than Canadians going south.

Prisoners of the prison industry
  American writer reflects on prisons as profit centers.

Private clinic in Victoria routinely charged $1200 'facility fee' for MRIs.
  One of 29 found violating Canada Health Act in BC, says Canadian Health Coalition.

Private clinics eroding fairness and equality of public health care
  New report: 89 suspected violations of the Canada Health Act in 5 provinces.

Private clinics looking to expand into Saskatchewan, saying they can reduce waits
  Progress is being made in wait times, says CUPE.

Private clinics: Medical scans or marketing scam?
  "Preventative" scans often neither safe nor highly accurate.

Private financing collapse leaves BC bridge as fully public project, saving taxpayers $200 million
  Quebec P3 megaprojects also on shaky ground.

Private sector attracting more Quebec health professionals
  Nurses and doctors leaving public institutions, according to Merck-funded zine

Private water investment costly for customers, industry analysis reveals
  Corporations have a financial incentive to oppose conservation, protection of drinking water sources.

Privatization – Harper Conservatives quietly eye options
  Nuclear sell-off and private prisons may be on horizon.

Privatization advances quietly in 2008 Conservative federal budget
  P3s, shrinking surplus and no-strings contracting hem in public role and new programs.

Privatization is not the answer to health care costs: properly adjusted public funding is
  With passing decades, federal cost-sharing with provinces has dwindled from 50 percent to the current 25 percent.

Privatization of Texas State services a "slow-motion disaster"
  Audit shows management problems continue five years later.

Privatization policies responsible for current financial crisis, Bolivia tells UN
  Bolivian president points to economic models that "simply privatize resources".

Privatization, casualization global trends in higher education
  Casualization brings poor working conditions, low wages and a decline in qualifications of academic staff.

Privatization, Contracting-Out, and P3s
  Analysis from the the Alternative Federal Budget.

Privatization: a reality check
  Canadians really do not want to privatize the public services that are most important to them.

Privatized public schools in USA underwhelm critics
  Studies prove public schools get disproportionate share of the neediest students, yet still do as well - or better.

Privatizing federal buildings a "sweet deal" for new owners
  25-year deal leaves taxpayers responsible for billions in undefined future rent and maintenance costs.

Privatizing health care is not the answer: lessons from the United States
  Why the US spends more and gets less.

Profiles of public interest advocates from Alberta
  Conference brought activists together to think about action in critical times.

Proposed federal pension law changes say 'fend for yourself'
  Would transfer risks and costs from investors and corporations to pensioners and workers.

Provincial safety review of Sunrise Propane explosion fails to consider fundamental problem
  Mayor, councilor of affected ward had both expected to see privatized regulating body abolished, safety regulation revert to government control.

Provincial, federal governments ignore private clinic violations of Canada Health Act
  Growing trend bleeds public health care system of needed skills and services.

Provincial, local government should remain free of NAFTA, WTO rules
  Ability of local governments to govern threatened by move to expand trade deals.

Prudent long-term electricity planning also needs reasonable investment
  Chasing votes does little to develop requirement guidelines, reserve capacity.

Public education, combatting complacency are key to maintaining medicare
  Clinics, nurse practitioners, and pharmacare combine to offer the forward - Linda Silas, CFNU

Public policy in UK shifts from growth to wellbeing, sustainability
  Watchdog organization keeps British government on track for 'prosperity without growth'.

Public real estate fire sale in Saint John
  Deal would see Irving Oil get prime real estate, active terminal in exchange for contaminated land.

Public Science, 25,000 S & T workers affected by government labs transfers report
  Should government relinquish responsibility for leadership and accountability?

Public Service, anyone?
  After a crisis, rediscover do-gooding.

Public services will face squeeze with economic crisis
  Recession could could be used to justify privatization and cuts at a time when need is greatest.

Public Values reader clarifies Hamilton airport sale story
  Nanaimo airport offers lesson in "jurisdiction".

Public-Private Partnerships and Municipalities
  Beyond principles: a brief overview of practices.

Public-private partnerships fail to deliver
  Governments should abandon the myth that the P3 model has benefits.

Public-private partnerships put corporate paws in public pockets
  Bargain basement highways, meter-collecting revenues and public buildings give complex tax advantages to investors.

Quebec Auditor General asked to investigate university P3s
  Rising costs, untendered contracts raise red flags.

Quebec City outside workers, "cols-bleus", resist privatization of garbage collection
  Media campaign underlines how other services can be privatized.

Quebec hospitals to cost $4 billion more as P3s than if publicly-owned
  Not to late to cancel the process, PQ critic says.

Quebec minister vetoes Gatineau P3 arena deal
  City councillor calls it "a victory for taxpayers."

Quebec ombudsman denounces hospital's offsite, private surgery deal
  Fears patient rights not protected.

Quebec to expand private health care - without debate
  Province has gone further than Supreme Court demanded.

Quebec walking away from privatization partnerships
  P3 agency president has stepped down, following half his board in recent months.

Regulate the markets for real
  Canada the only G7 country with no federal regulatory agency for financial markets.

Report supporting public private partnerships (P3s) "biased and superficial"
  Privatizing schools in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick not proven cost effective.

Report: "significant downsides" to privatization
  Examines risk, responsibility, accountability, effect on jobs, exit strategy of P3s.

Research backs up public daycare for quality, cost, inclusion
  Substantial body of North American research concludes:commercial status means poorer quality.

Re-tooling the financial regulatory system — and the economy
  Financial crises the "hardy perennial" of unregulated financial systems.

Rhetoric of "Big Government" used to attack services
  Double standard says funding for business is in the public interest and all other spending is "socialism".

Rising borrowing costs could hike cost of Alberta's P3 school projects
  Economic consultant: will cost at least 50 percent more to build schools than through public sector.

Rural Ontario county rejects P3 wastewater bids, stays public
  Councilors see through low-ball bids, high estimated operating costs.

Saint John council rejects public-private partnership for water
  Council divided, will revisit issue with report in fall.

Sask health care providers have conciliatory talks canceled by province
  Union looks for collective agreements, launches tv ad in support of public services.

Saskatchewan budget cuts 178 jobs across the board
  Public service cuts will total 15 per cent over next four years despite growth in economy.

Saskatchewan Crowns (corporations) on endangered species list
  Grassroots group fights to save affordable, accessible services from extinction.

Saskatchewan gov't quietly privatizing services despite election promises
  IT work to be outsourced to the private sector, public park buildings sold.

Saskatchewan government feeling out public-private partnerships
  New secretariat to evaluate proposals.

Saskatchewan public servants fight back
  Member activation results in grassroots action against Wall government.

Save prison farms, say Solicitor General employees, National Farmer's Union
  New website aims to turn around decision shut down valuable resource.

Scotland bans privatized hospital services
  Privatized support services connected to rise in superbugs.

Scotland to build UK's largest new hospital without private funding
  Strictly public financing for the 'health campus'.

Security and Prosperity Partnership: Not a merger made in heaven
  We give up the right to decide national policies in food, energy and investment, but it makes the multinationals happy.

Self-regulation grounds US air travelers. Are Canadians next?
  Aeronautics Act (C-7), now awaiting Third Reading, could be victim of Southwest and American Airlines debacles.

Selling Ontario assets does not address genuine economic issues
  Fire sale of assets may be way for premier to look good in next election.

Senior federal scientists have to obtain permission to speak publicly, but rarely allowed to
  Muzzling of scientists responsible for cod fishery collapse, salmon stock decline.

Service union questions private clinics
  Federal government asked to enforce the Canada Health Act.

Seven deadly sins of deregulation — and three necessary reforms
  Current crisis the result of the misguided notion that financial markets can regulate themselves.

Shelve Castonguay, support medicare, says CUPE
  Report on the Canada Health Act ignores already significant inroads into private health care.

Shh! Coming soon: Canada, US and Mexico's Security and Prosperity Partnership meeting
  Demand to have a say in North America's future.

Should the USA keep feeding "zombie banks" public money after death?
  Former Chief Economist of Senate Banking Committee advises: stop catering to past patterns of power.

SK public servants settle, ON college teachers narrowly accept contract
  Agreement comes after five months without contract for SGEU members.

Social infrastructure creates three times more jobs than tax cuts
  Frontline workers tell first ministers to reinvest in public services.

Social networking supports campaign for more nurses
  London nurses among groups to use Facebook to spread the word.

Stats Can study: public infrastructure raises economic productivity
  Between 1962 and 2006, one half of private sector productivity the result of public works.

Stop post office closures, call for moratorium: CUPW petition
  Rural, small town post offices to be closed without community consultations or options investigated.

Study: Private clinics cause public waiting lists to swell
  Wait times longer where private clinics poach staff from public system.

Surprise! McGuinty, Charest sign interprovincial trade deal
  Agreement will hamstring social, economic policy, critics charge.

Swine flu shows need for good public health systems world-wide
  Beleaguered Mexican health care system ill-equipped, slow to respond to crisis.

Tainted food sparks a safety campaign
  Veterinarians, inspectors, public service union want to make restoration of safety inspections an election issue.

Take action on food inspection shortage
  Campaign addresses the need for more meat inspectors.

Tanzania awarded nearly $8 million in dispute over failed water privatization
  Tribunal finds water services deteriorated following World Bank-backed initiative.

Tax cuts caused deficit
  Losing billions more to new cuts still won't fund services to citizens.

Telecommunications breakdown
  Consumer groups say government deregulation without adequate protection for customers was a serious mistake.

Tell PM food safety still a priority - Food Safety First Campaign
  Positive steps made, but other inspection programs woefully understaffed.

Tell Stephen Harper: action required on listeriosis report
  Will report on last summer's outbreak gather dust or garner changes?

Tell the USA the truth about our healthcare system
  Avaaz petition aims to cause a stir in US media before congressional vote.

Texas " a battleground" over privatization of health and human services
  Child Protective Services, Medicaid, food stamps on the block to lowest bidder.

The business case and the human case both support public health care, says health economist
  But Canada loses its health-care edge with a pharmaceutical regime you could call "Little America" - Bob Evans

The case for public investment led growth
  Investors have become so risk averse, there simply has to be a major shift from private to public investment.

The free-market state as predator
  Suddenly planning, standards, regulation and progressive taxes don't seem so bad.

The global financial crisis: Lessons and responses from Africa
  Global South should break free from failed neoliberal policies, says noted thinker.

The great American bubble machine - Goldman Sachs
  Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone provides details on how Goldman Sachs, from tech stocks to high gas prices, has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression.

The plan: strong economy, fair society, clean environment
  Reports, petition, Facebook group promote ways to change Canadian society for the better.

The public interest is not for sale
  Government, not private industry, provides independent, non-partisan accountability in public safety issues.

The Shock Doctrine in Action in New Orleans
  Disaster capitalists continue to reap side benefits of disastrous flooding.

The SPP is dead
  Security and Prosperity Partnership tainted by secrecy, Bush legacy.

Thirty-year campaign against government smashes against reality
  Financial crisis and listeriosis outbreak have shaken the foundations of the neo-Conservative campaign against all things public.

This is Privateering
  George Lakoff proposes a new way to frame privatization and contracting out.

Thousands rally for public health care across Ontario
  Marchers in five cities protest cuts to dozens of hospitals.

Three years later, floatplane fatality's widow still seeks workplace accident investigation
  Independent forensic aviation specialist concludes: "The Transportation Safety Board of Canada did not fulfill its obligation in this occurrence."

Thunder Bay workers campaign against C-39, loss of one hundred inspection, regulatory jobs
  Conservative Bill puts consumers at risk, gives grain companies advantage over producers, say Grain Commission supporters.

Time to renegotiate NAFTA, not expand it
  SPP affects over 300 areas of government responsibility, without legislative transparency.

Toronto Hydro Telecom sold to Cogeco
  Union conferring with lawyers over City of Toronto's lack of public process.

Toronto propane explosion: who watches safety risks?
  Preventable disaster shows how badly industry 'self-policing' can fail.

Toronto strike: no contract, no service is basic business sense, not "public sector monopoly"
  Why demand concessions from workers while those who caused crisis get billions in bailouts?

Train wreck: the privatization of British Rail
  Before privatization, the biggest complaint was bad sandwiches, not employee fatalities.

Troubled Australian firm chosen to build, maintain 18 Alberta schools
  Company plagued by layoffs, resignations, massive debt and stock devaluation.

Turkey's waterways, water services for sale in sweeping privatization programme
  World Water Forum to be held in Istanbul next year.

Turning on Canada's tap
  Why Canada needs a comprehensive policy and strategy on bulk water exports to the United States.

Twelve Alberta health authority boards rolled into one
  Appointed, unaccountable board addresses neither wait times nor workloads.

Twice as many processed meat inspectors needed, union says.
  Research presented to parliamentary committee shows too few inspectors to do the job.

Two hundred and fifty seniors' health care workers lose jobs to privatization on Vancouver Island
  Hundreds of long-term care beds to close over summer, replaced by for-profit institutions.

UK accountants slam lack of financial scrutiny in P3 projects
  Call for stricter reporting from private sector to determine how public money is being used, whether goals are met.

UK health researcher tells Canada: contracting-out hospital cleaning a big mistake
  Health care associated infections are fourth leading cause of death in Canada.

UK P3 projects crash and burn
  Public sector bailouts only way forward.

Unhappy days may be here again
  "Dalton Days" floated in Ontario, but no one suggests the obvious alternative of raising corporate taxes.

UNICEF flunks Canada on child care
  Report card on Early Childhood Education and Care program ranks Canada at the bottom.

Union report documents privatization failures as warning for Halifax
  Provides details of projects that left local taxpayers holding the bag.

Universal health care drives the economy
  Employment, spending linked to access.

Unreleased government report on water crisis in Canada made public
  Warns of jurisdictional conflict with US, unsustainable industrial consumption.

Upcoming federal budget needs tax fairness, investment in public services
  Don't panic about recession, PM, finance minister told at pre-budget consultations.

Urgent call for action to stop sale of BC's rivers
  Private run-of-river power projects sidestep public, environmental accountability.

US airline safety advocates sue DOT and FAA
  Seek to force adoption of safety recommendations made as far back as mid-1990s.

US big banks: Privatize the profits. Socialize the losses.
  US banks have been getting into trouble regularly overseas.

US Businesses and economists back public health care with petition
  Public health care seen as saviour of the economy.

US Conference of Mayors pulls plug on offering bottled water
  Resolution aims to redirect taxpayer dollars back to public water, other public services.

US consumers organize to oppose privatization of water utilities
  Private sector shows interest as US nears the limits of its water supplies.

US health insurers' bottom line: reject odds-on claimants
  Health care covers only healthy people.

US investor threatens first ever healthcare suit
  Will cite provincial private clinics as unfair competition.

US needs trillion dollar recovery package
  'You can't put out a forest fire with a squirt gun,' says Congressional Progressive Caucus.

US privatized food safety inspections graded: Fail
  Third-party audits for food safety likened to mail-order diploma mills for education.

US Treasury Secretary wants P3s to bail out big banks
  Plan to scrub assets could leave public holding the bag, while private speculators reap the biggest rewards.

US, Canadian lobbyists weaken UN resolution protecting water as basic right
  Resolution now protects right to sell water.

Victoria looking to privatize sewage services against industry advice
  P3 not the way to go says construction head

Video of protest, arrests at Ontario hospital raises questions
  P3 approval, centralization based on deception, resident claims.

Walkerton Mayor calls for public inquiry into Listeriosis outbreak
  Same cast of characters, same cost-cutting and deregulation created deadly E coli outbreak.

Water filtration P3s are election issue for Saint John
  Mayoralty candidates open the discussion, ponder becoming for-profit regional water supplier.

Water privatization's tale of two cities
  Tourist sewage, not promised drinking water, piped into Colombian town.

What could go wrong? Privatized British Rail demonstrates
  When every service or component is owned by a different operator, nothing is simple.

What government can do in the first 30 days after the election
  We have been vividly reminded that we need governments to act in the common good.

What happens when a city leases public assets to private investors?
  Owners have more latitude to raise prices.

What is education for?
  Students aren't customers; education is not a commodity – argues author.

What postal deregulation has done for me
  Misdirected mail, bad service in suburb served by private contractor.

What to do about the financial crisis
  Tax cuts, deregulation, privatization and cuts to public spending will make the economic situation much worse.

When governments have to govern
  The players want to win the competition, not simply compete.

When private contractors go to war
  Outsourcing war plays both ends: no accountability, out of control, yet under protection of US State Department.

Where is the balance in Private-Public Partnership reporting?
  National Post ignores other perspectives on P3 piece.

Who is this troublesome 'Fannie Mae' person, anyway?
  The Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA),now privatized, began life as a US government institution.

Why are food producers still their own health inspectors?
  US audit of Canadian meat plants reveals serious breaches; listeriosis investigator gagged by PM.

Why we need a coalition government
  Conservative government flounders in the face of a global economic crisis and the prospect of fast rising unemployment.

Why you should be screaming for higher taxes
  US economic growth was strongest when taxes were high.

Winnipeg city council sets up arm's length water and garbage utility
  P3 approved despite 30 public presentations against proposed plan.

Winnipeg councillor: no water utility sales without referendum
  Response to public outcry over public-private partnership.

Winnipeg families speak out on nursing home shortages
  Manitoba study last year reported that the ratio of patients to staff was 80 to one.

Winnipeg public transit dollars handed to private water park
  Fund from three levels of government to see discounted tickets in return for investment.

Winnipeg set to dismantle public governance of water treatment with no public consultation
  Research firm "has already consulted with leading private water/wastewater service providers."

Winnipeg's move to standalone utility corporation raises fears of privatization
  City water and sewer services to move out of municipal control.

Workers look to G20 leaders to pull world out of recession
  We need a new set of rules for both the global economy and those who profit from it the most.

World Water Day celebrated across Canada
  Union promotes public–public partnerships.

Worldwide inventory of infrastructure spending plans
  Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada surveys world government reactions to crisis.

Yukon energy privatization attempt brings resignations, backpeddling
  Premier vows no privatization, but talks continue.