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1. Employment Insurance needs to operate like a true insurance system

   Appeared in the Fredericton Daily Gleaner Imagine a world where your car insurance company charges everybody the same premium; the premium doesn’t depend on your driving record or the number of claims you make. Nor does the premium depend on your age or ...

2. B.C. welfare payments are adequate; For the most part, they line up with basic needs; where they don't, for employable singles, there is a reason

   Appeared in the Vancouver Sun Surrey MLA Jagrup Brar's attempt to spend January living on the $610 welfare rate for a single employable individual has succeeded in getting people talking about the adequacy of welfare. Brar's actions are in ...

3. Occupy Vancouver protesters need not worry; young Canadians can and will advance economically

   Appeared in Business in Vancouver With public opinion now turning on the protesters, we don’t know what the future holds for Occupy Vancouver. But looking beyond the multi-coloured tents, creatively captioned picket signs and sporadic chants, one concern ...

4. Open union books to see how much they spend on political activities

   Appeared in the Financial Post With Ontarians heading to the polls in a little more than a week, and up to four other provincial elections possible this fall, unions across the country have ramped up their political activism. Unfortunately, the unionized ...

5. Measuring the Fiscal Performance of Canada's Premiers, 2011

   This Alert is designed to help Canadians hold their provincial political leaders accountable for the relative performance of their fiscal policies. In this second edition, we provide an objective, empirical assessment of how Canada?s premiers have managed ...

6. Let's celebrate workers by giving them more choice

   Appeared in the Sudbury Star Now that the Labour Day celebrations are done, we should look beyond the picnics and parades, and reflect on the country’s labour laws and in particular, whether they actually serve the interests of workers. Unfortunately, ...

7. Measuring Labour Markets in Canada and the United States: 2011 Edition

   This study measures the labour market performance of Canadian provinces and US states from 2006 to 2010 based on five equally weighted indicators: average total employment growth, average private-sector employment growth, average unemployment rates, ...

8. The solution to the Canada Post strike is privatization

   Appeared in the New Brunswick Times & Transcript With the breakdown in negotiations between Canada Post management and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, many cities across Canada have been subject to rotating strikes by the mail carriers. ...

9. Estimating the Economic Impact of British Columbia's Minimum Wage Increase

   On March 16, 2011, British Columbia Premier Christy Clark announced her first major policy change, a $2.25 (28.1%) increase to BC?s current $8.00 per hour minimum wage. Controversy surrounds minimum wages because of the tension between well-intentioned ...

10. Minimum wage increase a job killer

    Appeared in the Vancouver Sun As entrepreneur Robert J. Ringer famously said, Reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are. And when it comes to minimum wage increases, the wishful thinking ...