"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.

A federal election for the planet
  Obvious effects of global warming "terrifying" to research scientists visiting Northwest Passage.

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

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

Alberta budget spending shell game gets losing grade
  Increases to health care, infrastructure were financed by cuts to other areas, elimination of 800 public service jobs.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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: 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.

California government could be first to limit potent climate change gas
  State senate wants to expand its landmark global warming law.

Campaign 2000 releases new report cards on child and family poverty
 

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 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 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 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 no longer see red over prospect of higher taxes
  Almost three out of five Canadian CEOs surveyed in March say higher taxes are needed to get the country back into the fiscal black.

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

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.

Child care polices of Harper Conservatives are failing badly
  New study reveals the smallest increase in regulated child care spaces in years.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Federal government not meeting air-safety recommendations: Analysis
  On average, the board warned the government of these deficiencies 76 months ago.

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.

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.

First of its kind report tracks water pollution caused by air contaminants
  Protection plans for drinking water for 11M Ontarians under development.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Independent study validates Canada's medicare program
  Finds public medicare made major impact in reducing socioeconomic differences in deaths.

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

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

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.

Liberals' public-private hospital deals will cost Ontarians over $500 million
  McGuinty urged to halt P3 hospital projects.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 Brampton P3 hospital
  Could have been built for millions less as fully public project.

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

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

Opinions mixed on whether to influence or scrap G8/G20 summits
  Many question the very legitimacy of events – Steve Staples.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Progressive policy leader Quebec winning the baby race
  Family and child-friendly policies help bring birth rate above national average.

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

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-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.

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.

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".

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Sympathy, kindness keys to human survival - UC Berkeley
  Study contradicts common concept of survival of the fittest.

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 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.

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 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.

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

Time for Canada to have an adult conversation about climate change - Pembina Institute
  Country can meet target to cut greenhouse gas pollution and enjoy solid economic growth.

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

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

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.

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

US Federal wildlife agencies ordered to ignore global warming
  Review of greenhouse gas pollution for impact on species or habitat forbidden.

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

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

Web site supports Rights & Democracy work, against interference by feds
  Former presidents line up to offer support for the human rights work of organization.

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

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

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.

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.

Will Alberta health mega-board create uncertainty among providers?
  Impact on health care to be monitored in coming months.

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."

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

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

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