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THE INABILITY of the Colonists to get power to issue their own money permanently out of the hands of George…

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By Ed Finn, rabble.ca, Economy, Politics in Canada, March 1, 2019 With all the political commentators pontificating on the SNC-Lavalin…

The composition of the House of Commons justice committee hardly guaranteed impartiality. For their part, the opposition laid siege, while…

By Michael Harris, thetyee.ca, February 15, 2019 Her government was intensely lobbied, but the law is clear. We may not…

His generation is now gone. His passing marks the end of an era. Not just for us here gathered, but…

Hazel Henderson, in Building A WinWin World, identifies the common definition of sustainable development as “development which meets the needs…

Canada’s SNC-Lavalin Affair: The Site C Dam Project and Bulk Water Export By Joyce Nelson, Global Research, March 13, 2019…

Margaret Rao’s Testimony Sunday, January 27, 2019, First Unitarian Congregation of Toronto. Good morning everyone! I am grateful to be…

Part I of this article ran in the November-December, 2018, issue of ER. By Henry A. Giroux, Social Project, The…

By Larry Farquharson, COMER Information Officer April 21, 2019, Toronto, ON – It is with deep sadness we report that…

By Rick Smith, The Broadbent Blog, December 6, 2018 Maybe it was the months of smoke-filled skies or the flash…

llustration from pages 4-5 in Whose Crisis, Whose Future? by Susan George In Whose Crisis, Whose Future, Towards a Greener,…

By Richard Rohr, The Social Artist, Winter 2018 Go Down to the Palace of the king and declare, “Do what…

AlAs, we have recently lost a long-time member of COMER, and an outstanding “change agent.” Derrell Dular, born January 13,…

By Andy Rowell, www.commondreams.org, December 4, 2018 Children from Canada, Australia and Sweden are taking the lead on climate change.…

By Ed Pilkington in New York, The Guardian, December 4, 2018 Weeks after the midterms, several states face continued wrangling…

By Mitchell Beer, theenergymix.com, November 28, 2018. Full Story: Environnement Jeunesse @ENJEUQuebec (https://enjeu.qc.ca/justice-eng) A group of five youth and young…

By Henry A. Giroux, Social Project, The Bullet, August 20, 2018 The nightmares that have shaped the past and await…

By Leyland Cecco, The Guardian, November 20, 2018 Rough seas prevented crews from assessing damage to vulnerable wildlife caused by…

By J. D. Alt, ERA Review, v. 10, n. 6, November-December 2018  I have written about this before, but it…

By teleSUR, readersupportednews.org, November 4, 2018 On Friday, the US Supreme Court gave permission for the continuation of the Juliana…

By John Miller, rabble.ca blogs, October 1, 2018 Bruce Mackinnon and Duncan Macpher son share the distinction of being two…

Source: newint.org, November 1, 2018 A new resistance movement is forming. Husna Rizvi speaks to Extinction Rebellion about why direct…

By Oscar Reyes, Foreign Policy In Focus, October 31, 2018  Despite dire warnings, politically influential big banks continue to lend…

The REAL News Network, October 11, 2018  Series Content  The IPCC’s new report says we could face irreversible consequences of…

By Avi Lewis, published by The Leap: System Change on a Deadline, October 10, 2018  More and more people are…

By John Ryan, Globalization, Canadian Dimension, October 9, 2018  There is something strange about this. Other than Maude Barlow and…

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC Press Release, October 8, 2018  Incheon, Republic of Korea, October 8 – Limiting global…

By Julie Bates, Otherwords.org. October 8, 2018, https://inequality.org/research/your-postoffice/?source=newsletter  Take it from a postal worker: If the US sells its public…

By Mark Milke, Maclean’s Magazine, October 4, 2018  Opinion: free trade agreements have long been fuelled by grand visions of…

By Chris Mooney and Brady Dennis, The Washington Post, October 3, 2018  A much-awaited report from the UN’s top climate…

By Johanna Bozuwa, Environment, Public Goods, socialistproject.ca, October 2, 2018  Opportunities for Public-run Energy Utilities to Revolutionize Generation and the…

By Sheila Block, Behind the Numbers, September 21, 2018 It is a ritual in Canadian politics: a new government comes…

By Crawford Kilian, TheTyee.ca, June 13, 2018 The ugly end days of fossil fuel will mean big trouble for Canadians.…

With a heavy heart indeed, we report the loss of Dr. George Crowell, a long-time member of COMER. George graduated…

By Nomi Prins, truthout.org, August 2, 2018 Here we are in the middle of the second year of Donald Trump’s…

By Craig Scott, Opinion, The Toronto Star, August 2, 2018 Ontario’s Bill 5 will radically change Toronto City Council wards…

By Bill McKibben, Grist, June 24, 2018 From Wall Street to the pope, many increas-ingly see fossil fuels as anything…

By Royson James, Toronto Star Columnist, September 21, 2018 Free Toronto! It’s time for a tenacious, unwavering movement that demands…

By David Orchard, Global Research, June 19, 2018 For months Canadians have been inundated with claims from the government, various…

By Patrick DeRochie, environmentalde-fence.ca, September 17, 2018 What’s the dumbest policy in the world? Public cash for oil and gas!…

By Shawn Micallef, Toronto I don’t blame you if you’ve tuned out city politics and given up on trying to…

By Tony McKenna, www.counterpunch.org, July 4, 2018 The latest Trump scandal hitting the news – the interment of children in…

By David Orchard and Marjaleena Repo, Global Research, September 2, 2018 Canadians are being inundated, virtually around the clock, by…

By Joseph E. Stiglitz, June 29, 2018, www. project-syndicate.org  In just the past few days, the US Supreme Court has…

We are pleased to introduce our new information officer, Larry Farquharson.  Larry first became involved with COMER through the National…

By Équiterre, equiterre.org, June 15, 2018  Incidents on interprovincial and international oil and gas pipelines in Canada increased 42% between…

By David Bollier, The Social Artist, Summer 2018 David: The idea of “the commons” refers to more than just land.…

By Gar Alperovitz, inthesetimes.com, January 8, 2018  With both houses of Congress and most state governments captured by the Republican…

By Ed Finn, rabble.ca, June 5, 2018  The people in Canada who are intelligent, open-minded, and not ideologically conservative would…

By Bob Farkas, Socialist Project, The Bullet, Labour, Public Goods, May 30, 2018  In the weeks and months ahead, there…

By Chris Hedges, Information Clearing House, May 21, 2018  May 21, 2018 “Information Clearing House” – The Trump administration did…

By Andrew Nikiforuk, TheTyee.ca, April 20, 2018  Due diligence required before we sink money into a corporation with poor stock…

By William Boardman, Reader Supported News, July 10, 2018  Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed…

Three members of the COMER Executive, Ann Emmett, Ronnie Pereira and Patrick Cryan, were lucky enough to get tickets to…

The Social Artist, www.douglassocialcredit.com, Summer 2018  Enclosure forces us to confront the issue of power, of who controls resources and…

Opinion, The Peterborough Examiner, July 3, 2018  There is much wrong with Ron Graham’s rant about alleged biased coverage in…

By Linda McQuaig, Toronto Star, January 18, 2018  No doubt the offspring of the Tim Hortons business empire regret their…

By Erica Alini, National Online Journalist, Money/Consumer Global News, November 10, 2017  When it comes to making ends meet, having…

By Deonna Anderson, nextcity.org, December 28, 2017  In Portland, Oregon, a movement is slowly building to establish a public bank.…

By Erica Alini, National Online Journalist, Money/Consumer Global News, November 22, 2017  The typical Canadian CEO makes $8 million a…

PressProgress, January 18, 2018  Ottawa-area school board circulates Fraser Institute contest offering cash prizes for antiminimum wage essays.  A right-wing…

therealnews.com, January 16, 2018  Devika Dutt of PERI explains the gap between common economic thinking, which favors private ownership of…

By Andrew Ross Sorkin, The New York Times, January 15, 2018  On Tuesday, the chief executives of the world’s largest…

By Cindy Ann Cole and John M. Repp, The Retiree Advocate, January 2018  When the Seattle City Council passed the…

By Barry Eichengreen, Project Syndicate, January 10, 2018  Policymakers normally respond to recessions by cutting interest rates, reducing taxes, and…

By Adele Peters, www.fastcompany.com, January 8, 2018  As activists pressure governments to remove their deposits from banks that back bad…

By Stacco Troncoso and Ann Marie Utratel, Truthout, Op-Ed, January 7, 2018  One of the most difficult systems to reimagine…

From Dr. Jerry Ackerman, March 6, 2017  I am writing in response to your letter of February 24 as written…

Dear parliamentarian:  My name is Jerry Ackerman. I am a financial analyst with degrees in Agriculture, Economics and Economics Applied…

By Chris Parsons, Halifax’s Website The Coast, January 4, 2018  Nova Scotia’s bosses would rather kill their own companies than…

By Jennifer Wells, Business Columnist, Toronto Star, January 2, 2018  At the hourly minimum of $14, an Ontario worker would…

theREALnews.com, March 12, 2018  Student Debt Cancellation a Viable Option, Economists Say. A new in-depth study on the consequences of…

By David Brooks, The New York Times, OP-ED, February 8, 2018  Bill Drayton invented the term “social entrepreneur” and founded…

By James Laxer, Toronto Star, September 6, 2017  As inequality grows, the NDP needs to think about remaking Canadian society…

theREALnews.com, March 5, 2018  Former BIS chief, author of Revolution Required, praises the insights of Akyuz’s book, Playing with Fire,…

January 26, 2018 Dear Bill, When I get requests for funds I include a note about COMER and the Bank…

By David Orchard, Ottawa Citizen, January 18, 2018  In 1854, the Canadian colonies entered a free trade agreement with the…

By Joyce Nelson, Watershed Sentinel, January 18, 2018  Paradise and Panama papers, Canada and red herrings, and the international agreement…

We Own It  After the collapse of the worldwide privatisation giant Carillion, political and public service leaders from Ontario and…

Public Goods, John McDonnell and We Own It, January 16, 2018  This week 20,000 Carillion workers and many more in…

By Jack Rasmus, jackrasmus.com, January 7, 2018  Since the run-up to the election of 2016, the ruling elite in America…

The REAL news.com, January 2, 2018  Low interest rates, “quantitative easing,” and the mitigation of antitrust laws led to more…

By Bernie Sanders, Reader Supported News, January 2, 2018  Maintaining a vibrant democracy based on principles of justice has never…

By Brent Budowsky, The Hill, readersupportednews. org, December 22, 2017  The passage of the tax cut bill locks President Trump…

By Toby Sanger, Canadian Dimension, November 30, 2017  In their election platform and in ministerial mandate letters, the federal Liberals…

The following is the preface to A Power Unto Itself by William Krehm.  Much of the material in this book…

By Zoe Williams, The Guardian, October 29, 2017  85% of MPs were unaware that new money is created every time…

By Linda McQuaig, Columnist, The Toronto Star, December 21, 2016  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is wrong to want to reduce…

By Murray Dobbin, Counter Punch, November 17, 2017  The world is now at the mercy of a coalition of three…

By Jonathan Watts, The Guardian, November 17, 2017 Veteran climate scientist says litigation campaign against government and fossil fuels companies…

By Naomi Klein, The Intercept, January 13, 2018  Five years ago, when 350.org helped kick off the global fossil fuel…

By Bernie Sanders, Common Dreams, November 13, 2017  “This massive level of wealth and income inequality, and the political power…

By Ed Finn, rabble.ca/blogs, November 10, 2017  During the 20 years I was editor of the CCPA Monitor, monthly journal…

By Joseph E. Stiglitz, Project Syndicate, readersuportednews.org, January 8, 2018  There is nothing about the GOP’s recentlypassed tax package that…

Op-ed by Stewart Sinclair, February 3, 2013  We all know that taxes of various sorts are almost universally considered to…

By Ed Waitzer, The Globe and Mail, August 1, 2017  The philosopher John Locke observed the human tendency to err…

Sputniknews.com, January 26, 2017  As many tropical islands have become associated with dark tax-evasion and moneylaundering schemes, a new shady…

By Owen Jones, The Guardian, October 19, 2017  Sometimes the case for a policy is as overwhelming as the level…

“Austerity is a class project that disproportionately targets and affects working class households and communities and, in so doing, protects…

By John Leicester, The Associated Press, January 19, 2017  “Universal basic income” is an idea that’s gaining traction among lawmakers…

Canadian Union of Public Employees,The Bullet, Socialist Project, E-Bulleting No.1449, July 17, 2017 The Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) will create…

By Lars Syll, Real-World Economics Review Blog, March 14, 2016  Nowadays there is almost no place whatsoever in economics education…

By Elizabeth McArdle, The Social Artist, Vol. 5, No. 2, Summer 2017  When you hear the word Dumbledore, I guarantee…

By Martin Parker, The Social Artist, Vol. 5, No. 3, Autumn 2017  The three principles of capitalism taken together –…

By Tamsin McMahon and Ken MacQueen, MACLEANS, June 3, 2014  Boomers are only now starting to take stock of retirement…

By Jack Rasmus, Global Research, August 30, 2017  My just published book, Central Bankers at the End of Their Rope?:…

By Washington’s Blog, Global Research, August 21, 2017 World Bank, IMF, BIS, NBER, McKinsey now admit that globalization increases inequality.…

By Harry Glasbeek, The Bullet, August 3, 2017  Capitalism is ugly.  The major villains at Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Citigroup,…

By Alex Ballingall, Ottawa Bureau, Toronto Star, August 1, 2017  Andrew Sanfilippo, appointed to the Superior Court this month, bought…

CCPA Monitor, January-February 2017  A couple of centuries ago (not long, in Earth time), a host of public interest regulations…

By Star Editorial Board, July 21, 2017  With the $6.7-billion acquisition of an American utility company Hydro One is growing.…

A sermon by Rev. Steven Epperson, JUSTnewscusj.org, Number 33, Spring 2017  Epiphany Sunday is a big day in the Christian…

By Andrew Nikiforuk, thetyee.ca, June 7, 2017  The facts and solutions are readily available, but our pipeline-loving PM stalls.  Here’s…

By Joseph Stiglitz, The Guardian, June 7, 2017  Neoliberalism was a creature of the Regan and Thatcher era. Austerity is…

By Paul Bentley, CounterPunch, June 6, 2017  There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile.  He found…

The NDP leadership campaign this summer of 2017 is especially crucial. It sets the tone for the 2019 election at…

By Sarabjit (Sabi) Marwah, Toronto Star, OpEd, June 20, 2017  The CIB is a creative, risk-mitigating and cost-effective way to…

By Joyce Nelson, June 2017  Ecuador’s new president, Lenin Moreno, was officially inaugurated on May 24. After a hard-fought, two-stage…

News Release: Supreme Court Denies Request for Bank of Canada Lawsuit to Proceed  Toronto, May 31, 2017 – After nearly…

By Murray Dobbin, Posted: May 26, 2017  As the mainstream pundits are putting it, the NDP leadership race just got…

To: The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, PC, MP, Prime Minister of Canada  The Honourable Bill Morneau, PC, Minister of Finance …

Review of a book by Mary Mellor, Pluto, 2015, ISBN: ISBN: 978-0-7453-3554-4  “For a little while Pooh and The Floating…

March 14, 2017  The Hon. William F. Morneau,  Minister of Finance House of Commons Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6  Dear Minister: …

The following brief history is an excerpt from an article, “Canada: ‘A Northern Power’ Once Again? NAFTA, ‘A Monstrous Swindle,’”…

By Will Hutton, The Guardian, April 12, 2014  Economist Thomas Piketty’s message is bleak: the gap between rich and poor…

The Real News Network, April 2017  Paul Jay says the enablers of Trumpism are the leaders of both major parties…

By Laura Tyson, Project Syndicate, April 4, 2017  Berkeley – As US President Donald Trump receives bids to build his…

By Tom Parking, Toronto Sun, April 2, 2017  Just 10% of Canadians believe Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s recent budget will…

By Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, November 27, 2016  After choosing for his cabinet a series of political outsiders who…

By Richard Eskow, BillMoyers.com, January 24, 2017  Secret ties between the Koch Brothers and members of Congress can mean good…

By Tyler Durden, charleshughsmith. blogspot.com, January 20, 2017  It cannot be merely coincidental that the incomes and wealth of the…

By David Macdonald, The Toronto Star, March 17, 2017  As it stands, Canadians get a better deal through publicly owned…

By Valentin Schmid, Epoch Times, January 12, 2017  From wrong forecasts by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Wall Street,…

Brent Patterson’s blog for the Council of Canadians, March 9, 2017  Paul Magnette, the minister-president of the French-speaking Belgian region…

By Shawn McCarthy Houston, The Globe and Mail, March 7, 2017  Top North American energy executives made a plea for…

By Jason Hickel, The Guardian, March 4, 2017  A basic income could defeat the scarcity mindset, instil a sense of…

By Dean Baker, Real-World Economics Review Blog, February 4, 2017  The trade deals negotiated in the last quarter century are…

By Peter Radford, Real-World Economics Review Blog, February 2, 2017  One of the greatest shifts in our economy over the…

By George Monbiot, theguardian.org, February 2, 2017  A secretive network of business lobbyists has long held sway in US politics.…

By Tom Parkin, Postmedia Network, November 20, 2016  Last week, Justin Trudeau pushed his privatization plan even farther. He’s now…

By Prof. Martin Hart-Landsberg, The Bullet, info@socialistproject.ca, Feb. 20, 2017  President Trump has singled out unfair international trading relationships as…

By Calin Rovinescu, The Globe and Mail, December 19, 2016  There is an irony not lost on us where, as…

In 2008, at 93, William Krehm was preparing for “one final march into the breach.”  Today, at 103, he continues…

By Joshua Krause, Activist Post, March 8, 2016  Last month, the European Central Bank suggested that the 500-euro note needs…

By Barrie McKenna, The Globe and Mail, February 4, 2017  Ottawa – So Donald Trump wants to renovate the triplex…

By Alexander Panetta, The Canadian Press, February 3, 2017  Experts expect US to seek increases in North American content requirement…

By David Orchard, commonground.ca, February 2, 2017  John A. Macdonald called free trade with the US “veiled treason.” A century…

By F. William Engdahl, Global Research, January 23, 2017  It’s kinda sneaking up on us like an East Texas copperhead…

By Peter Koenig, Global Research, January 20, 2017  A Financial genocide, if there was ever one. Death by demonetization, probably…

To the Editor, Peterborough This Week, January 18, 2017  While being billed as an opportunity for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau…

By John Lanchester, The New York Times Magazine, January 10, 2017  Two months ago, the world’s largest democracy embarked on…

Readers are encouraged to review Joyce Nelson’s article, “The Government’s Proposed Infrastructure Bank: A 21st Century Trojan Horse,” COMER, March-April…

John Hahn Riddell JOHN PASSED AWAY on Sunday, May 15, 2016, in his 74th year, following a gallant, long-term struggle…

This year we have the chance to receive an important gathering in Canada. In Montréal, from August 9 to the…

SADLY, COMER has lost another colleague. Bob Campbell died, in his 100th year, at Sunnybrook Veterans’ Residence, in February. Bob…

Mark Twain once had occasion to report that “news of [his] death [had] been greatly exaggerated.” History has repeated itself…

After twenty years on the front lines of the movement to protect our public health care in Ontario, perhaps I…

UK House of Commons Debates, Thursday, November 20,2014 Part IV Part III appeared in the March-April 2015 issue of ER.…

In a previous issue we looked at how the balanced budget narrative is misleading because it obscures how the federal…

By Prof. Michael Chossudovsky, Global Research, July 21, 2015 Fira, Greece – On Sunday, July 5, the Greek people voted…

Part II appeared in the January–February 2015 issue of ER. Source: http://bit.ly/1rqvLxQ Mr MacNeil: To quote Harry S. Truman, the…

By Staff, The Canadian Press, metronews. ca, November 27, 2014 C.D. Howe Institute. A revamp of Canada’s system would create…

By Chris Hedges, www.truthdig.com, posted February 8, 2015 We fire missiles from the sky that incinerate families huddled in their…

By Les Whittington, Ottawa Bureau reporter, Toronto Star, March 24, 2015 Renowned Toronto lawyer brings unusual case to change the…

By André Marentette, Windsor Star, April 8, 2011 “There must be a discussion, to show how experience is to be…

Part 1 appeared in the November–December 2014 issue of ER. Source: http://bit.ly/1rqvLxQ Steve Baker: …My bottom line on this is:…

By Brian Staples, JUSTnews, Vol. 18, No. 2. Winter 2014-2015 Prorogations of Parliament. Other governments have prorogued Parliament many times.…

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On April 24, 2014, we were, in the main, successful in our appeal before Justice Russell. We appealed, to the…

Today’s House of Commons debates — Thursday 20 November 2014 11.18 am Steve Baker (Wycombe) (Con): I beg to move,…

Organizations Endorsing the Call for Renaissance of the Bank of Canada: Aaron Ander, Nutritionist in B.C. Alberta Monetary Authority ArkDesigns.org…

By Sean Fine, The Globe and Mail, August 23, 2014 Wherever I’ve gone this year in Canada, lawyers are talking…

December 10, 2013, marked the second year for COMER – Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform – in Federal Court…

And so is the cost! To date, this action has cost just over $215,000. We have been fortunate on two…

Your Honour(s): We are Canadian citizens familiar with the positive history of our publicly-owned bank – the Bank of Canada…

The Canadians plead for declarations that would restore the use of the bank of Canada for the benefit of Canadians…

By David Oakley and Norma Cohen, Financial Times, October 16, 2012  Employees face a much greater risk their pensions will…

Dear Mr. William Krehm, I am an Italian journalist/photographer and I follow your interesting economic publications. I have heard that…

Our court case against our government’s trifling with the very serious matters of its once-recognized investment in human capital –…