The following is a list of the 20 largest employers in Vancouver in 2018, based on revenue (rather than based on the number of employees, profit, assets or other criteria). For a couple of other lists, using profits or number of employees as criterion, see A Short List of the Largest Private Employers in Canada, According … Continue reading A Short List of the Largest Employers in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Mainly Based on Revenue
Month: June 2021
Basic Income as A Radical Reform That Points Beyond Capitalism and Towards Socialism
This is a continuation of a previous post (see A Basic Income Versus the Expansion of Public Services? Part One: Critique of the Social-democratic Idea that the Expansion of Public Services is Socialist), which critically analyses Simran Dhunna's and David Bush's article that criticizes moves towards a universal basic income (see https://springmag.ca/against-the-market-we-can-do-better-than-basic-income). In previous posts on … Continue reading Basic Income as A Radical Reform That Points Beyond Capitalism and Towards Socialism
The Radical Left Needs to Call into Question Existing Social Institutions at Every Opportunity, Part Five
Introduction Before I obtained a so-called permanent teaching position (I will explain in a much later post why I use the word "so-called"), I worked for a number of years as a substitute teacher (with short periods of term teaching positions). I became an executive member of the Winnipeg Teachers' Association (WTA) (in the province … Continue reading The Radical Left Needs to Call into Question Existing Social Institutions at Every Opportunity, Part Five
A Private Employer’s “Humanism” in Sweden: The Dream of Social Democrats Everywhere
As I pointed out in my critique of Jane McAlevey's reference to Sweden's so-called 'leveling of the playing field for children's opportunity for success from birth onward," (see Review of Jane McAlevey’s “A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy”: Two Steps Backward and One Step Forward, Part Two), social democrats tend to … Continue reading A Private Employer’s “Humanism” in Sweden: The Dream of Social Democrats Everywhere
The Abolitionary 