New Orleans In Delhi 250,000 of our slum dwellers have been displaced in order to allow the Delhi Municipal Corporation and India to preen before the dozens of countries coming to the Commonwealth Games being hosted in the country for the first time. Tens of thousands of our bicycle rickshaw pullers and other informal workers …
Category: International
Freezing Private Sector Exec Pay
Toronto Sharing the pain is taking on a new meaning in Ontario, Canada’s biggest province, where there are 1 million public employees now enduring a proposed 2-year wage freeze as part of the Liberal party government anti-recessionary measures, and recently the Finance Minister publically agreed that some of these same wage controls should extend to …
Montreal: Co-op City
Montreal Perhaps I was talking to the wrong people, but it started to seem like everywhere I turned I was hearing about a co-op in Montreal. Right across Sherbrooke not far from where I was staying there was of course Coop la Maison Verte, where last fall we had great Citizen Wealth event (and I …