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.

"Pay equity" bill threatens women's rights
  Changes make it difficult to file complaint, including $50,000 fine for union help.

3,000 Ontario Red Cross home care workers begin strike
  Home health service professionals left living below poverty line after months of bargaining.

40 organizations prepare to file complaint at UN against Harper government on women's rights
  Groups say hurdles in pay equity and EI undermine Canadian women's equality.

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.

Ad campaign takes on violence against hospital workers
  Twenty-three reported assaults in September alone at targeted hospital.

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

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

Alberta: threat of more education cuts galvanizes resistance
  Parents, teachers and trustees join forces.

Alternative to Remembrance Day ceremonies, Ed Broadbent moderates event
  Palestinian doctor believes in hope, reconiliation despite personal tragedy.

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 Health Sciences Association blasts government for cutting autism support
  Says "improvement in service" is really $3 million in cuts.

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-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: education grants cut in half
  Critics note cuts will hit the poor hardest.

Blowing the whistle on corporate tax avoidance
  Investigative series looks at the problem in the UK.

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

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.

Budget 2009: Canada's child care crisis will continue
  Addresses neither old issues, nor new needs of parents in employment upheaval.

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.

C. D. Howe Institute ranks Alberta schools
  Methodology provides lesson in skewing statistics.

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.

Campaign 2000 releases new report cards on child and family poverty
 

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's EI benefits well below OECD average: study
  Weakened, inadequate programs have produced a 'massive risk shift' onto families, economist says.

Canada's federal public servants under intense political pressure
  Many feel demoralized due to parachute hirings, service privatization and meddling.

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

Canada's small literary publishers denied funding under new rules
  New, annual sales-based restrictions would "cripple or kill" venerable publications.

Canada's top scientists reeling from $148 million in cuts to ongoing research
  Brain drain feared as US government set to pump $18 billion into science.

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 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.

Canadian Medical Association wants full inquiry into Canada's tainted meat scandal
  Death toll already double that of Walkerton E. coli outbreak.

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.

CBC cuts are ideologically driven – Charlie Angus
  Consolidation, bad debts and bad mergers helped trigger media crisis.

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".

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.

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 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.

Contracting out US government work: not a model employer
  With little oversight, workers treated poorly, taxpayers ripped off.

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

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.

CRTC moving from individual TV licenses to group ones
  Latest round of hearings will only propel further deregulation, critic says.

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

Cut to Canadian Recording Arts Grant sparks furor, online petition
  Diversity in music program killed without announcement during summer recess.

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 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.

Deregulation? No such thing.
  The only question is, who benefits from government intervention?

Disturbing trend towards criminalizing public dissent in Ontario
  Police compile list, lay charges against rural retirees who oppose dump site.

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 advertising allowed Canada that is prohibited in US
  In US, medications with serious risks carry warnings on packaging, cannot be advertised.

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.

EDITORIAL: Photos, eyewitness accounts and reports raise questions that only a full judicial inquiry can answer
  Globe pix point to possible repeat of Montebello outrage.

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

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

EI needs to work better for more people
  Canada's jobs crisis deeper than the government's own statistics suggest.

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.

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 farming studies may shift public policy
  Farming, food, health and environment need integrated oversight, author says.

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

Federal budget cuts bad for your health
  Why go for lowest corporate tax rates in the G7 when we have bills to pay?

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 collapse - no better time to build a better economy
  Put money in the service of people and the planet - not the other way around, says author.

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

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.

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.

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

Foresters call for government enquiry, new responsible ownership for six bankrupt mills
  AbitibiBowater attempted to build an empire based on debt, union says.

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

French President wants to measure well-being, dump GDP
  Draws on report headed by Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz.

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

Front line justice workers call for changes in how mentally ill are treated
  Increasing incarceration of people with mental issues is cruel and unusual punishment - NUPGE.

Gated Communities:The Beginning of a Privatized Future?
  Security and services for the communities that can afford it.

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

Government continues to withdraw resources from federally-supported science
  Medical doctors and scientists now have severely reduced access to an important research tool.

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

Green-collar economy taking root in Chicago
  Efforts aim to marry environment, enterprise, social need.

Growing number of economists agree: infrastructure spending urgently needed
  Wish list includes accelerated spending in new technology, alternative energy and transportation.

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

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.

Have conservative economics won out?
  Both Tories, Liberals have rewritten the playbook.

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.

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 Canada can beat tough times
  Government bonds would give citizens a choice as to where they direct their support.

How the Citizens' Assembly is reinventing the public's role in decision-making
  Expanding engagement offers the possibility of creating public innovation and consensus.

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.

Immigration privatized through extension of migrant worker program
  At least half of new immigrants now are forever temporary, and the proportion keeps growing.

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.

Interprovincial trade agreements threaten communities, environment, public services
  Press conferences held in seven provinces to present evidence against them.

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.

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.

Lobbyists could have wings clipped by court decision
  Question remains whether key rules will be enforced by ethics commissioners.

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.

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.

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

More cuts to public science in Canada, with YouTube video
  NRC bids farewell to world-class research.

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.

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

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

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

No deal as deadline passes for Ontario elementary teachers
  Main issue funding gap for students, not wages.

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

Nova Scotia report: Buoyant creative class helps keep economy afloat
  Canada's cultural sector accounted for 1.1 million jobs in 2007.

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 drafts principles on exchange of tax information
  Result of global forum on transparency and exchange of information.

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

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

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

Ontario passes Green Energy Act
  Groundbreaking legislation heralded by coalition of leading environmental groups.

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

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.

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

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?

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.

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

PIPSC issues charter challenge over budget
  Legislation that breaks contracts violates rights of employees under 2007 Supreme Court ruling.

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.

Police surround and attack small group of protesters at Queen and Spadina
  Graphic video shows brutal takedown of peaceful demonstrators.

Political leaders lacking vision with traditional "shovel ready" spending
  Purchase of local, sustainable and nutritious groceries could create "virtuous-circle" economics to finance stimulus.

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.

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: 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.

Privatization a very bad idea
  Passing off public responsibility to private companies will make matters worse.

Privatization in many forms looms as potential election issue
  Another public service nightmare story could galvanize debate.

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 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.

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 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.

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

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

Public service union going to court for part-timers, students, casual labour
  Some workers not more equal than others, says PSAC.

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

Raleigh rallies behind public art
  Another city in North Carolina approves stable funding formula for art in buildings, parks and public spaces.

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

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

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".

Ride for free: The case for free public transit
  Belgium's free public transit is a how-to success story.

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

Rural Ontario hospital cuts will cost lives, residents charge
  Province's move to consolidate emergency health care in urban centres creates outcry.

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

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

Save Canada's national broadcaster
  Petition to Prime Minister Stephen Harper for bridge financing.

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

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.

Senate report says Canada lags in care of seniors
  Finds "serious gaps" in health care, transportation, housing and support systems.

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

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

Shorter, shared workweek could end unemployment: covered by EI
  Best-kept secret of Canadian employment insurance policy should be extended to all public and bailed-out private enterprises.

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.

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

Spend early on children, says OECD
  New report compares public spending, policies for children with child-wellbeing in different countries.

Standardized testing: failing grade
  Time-consuming, high stress test has questionable merit, say Ontario teachers.

Students hit by record youth unemployment, assistance cuts
  Summer job dearth for 15 to 24 year olds breaks all previous records.

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

Stunning job losses mean EI must be improved
  Governments have changed the rules for EI: harder to qualify, benefits chopped.

Subsistence wages, job security at heart of York University strike
  With accumulated surplus, hiding behind the current economic recession is deceptive, spokesperson says.

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.

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

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 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 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.

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 fall, vote for medicare
  Harper government not collecting needed data nor enforcing rules.

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."

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

Toronto puts green rooftops high on public planning agenda
  Letter congratulates city for move to become first in North America to both require and govern construction of roof gardens.

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.

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.

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.

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 government looks at razing suburbs
  As fortunes decline and people leave, some centres find there are "simply too few people to pay for services".

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

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.

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.

We need stronger regulations for the global financial system
  Petition calls for fundamental causes of global financial crisis to be addressed.

Welcome to 'Free Public Services Day'
  When our taxes are paid for the year, so are the benefits of civilization.

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 is big business hiding in overseas tax shelters?
  Firms responsible for the world financial meltdown keep their profits in offshore banks.

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.

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

Why is Environment Canada gagging its own scientists?
  New communications policy restricts how government researchers may interact with reporters.

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 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.

Women's poverty takes back burner in recession
  Government policies contribute to poverty among women.

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.

Workers of the World Relax: May 1 reminds us why we need a shorter workweek
  Reduced workweek combats poverty, increases employment, author says.

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