Twitter – Conversation delicious – Signets / BookmarksWhen we first encountered Nancy – the featured subject of our photo-essay On the line – she and her fellow workers at the nickel mine in Sudbury had already been on strike for 5 months.
That conflict would last another seven months. It ended on July 8, when 75 percent of strikers voted in favour of [...]
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“Insecurity is the river that runs through it,” said economist Trish Hennessy when we asked her and her colleagues at the Centre for Policy Alternatives to identify some key characteristics of Canada’s economic recovery. They generously made time to talk to us earlier this summer – helping to put our work on the GDP Project [...]
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When it comes to Vancouver real estate, the Great Recession is receding rapidly into the mists of time – an unpleasant but fading memory. The Canadian Real Estate Association reported the average price of a Vancouver house in January to be $637,000 – up a whoping 100 grand since January 2009. Realtors are back in [...]
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We’ve been in touch with Alison Rimell – featured in Goh Iromoto’s photo-essay Class consciousness – since last summer, when we were still in pre-production phase on the GDP project. I was referred to her by Karen Sheppard, one of her professors at Toronto’s Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE). At the time Alison [...]
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