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Gender and wealth: a feminist viewpoint

The Sex Factor: How Women Made the West Rich, by Victoria Bateman, 243 pp., 2019, Polity Press. Review by Kimball Cariou. British economist and activist Victoria Bateman is known for unorthodox tactics to get her point across at staid [...]

BC: Big operating surplus, but no deal for teachers

The NDP government of British Columbia has released figures showing an operating surplus of $1.5 billion during the 2018-19 fiscal year. The amount is $1.3 billion higher than projected in previous budgets, thanks largely to increased revenues from [...]

WHY CANADA IS ALL INDIGENOUS TERRITORY

No Surrender: the land remains Indigenous, by Sheldon Krasowski, foreword by Winona Wheeler, University of Regina Press, 2019, 368 pages. A growing number of ground-breaking academic publications in recent years are giving important new insights [...]

FORMER VSB CHAIR BLOWS THE WHISTLE ON B.C. LIBERALS

Three years ago, after years of threats, the B.C. Liberal government fired the entire Vancouver School Board just as the trustees were about to meet to fulfill their legal requirement to adopt a balanced budget for the 2016-17 school term. The real [...]

A MUST-READ WITH ONE UNFORTUNATE FLAW

Outside In, A Political Memoir, by Libby Davies, published by Between The Lines, 320 pages. When the realization hit a few years ago that a big shake-up was inevitable at Vancouver City Hall, the conversation among progressives turned to the big [...]

Articles by Kimball Cariou

Gender and wealth: a feminist viewpoint

BC: Big operating surplus, but no deal for teachers

WHY CANADA IS ALL INDIGENOUS TERRITORY

FORMER VSB CHAIR BLOWS THE WHISTLE ON B.C. LIBERALS

A MUST-READ WITH ONE UNFORTUNATE FLAW

CONCESSION DEMANDS MAY SPARK BC TEACHER STRIKE

BC Government Puts Special Needs Students at Risk

IT WILL HAPPEN AGAIN, UNLESS WE UNITE AGAINST RIGHT-WING TERROR

Sonic Attacks: The Bizarre Crime with No Means, Motive or Evidence

Covering for Imperialism: the Liberal New York Times