Archive for Finance
25 results.
Michael de Jong, BC Minister of Finance presents the 2016 Budget, and Economist Iglika Ivanova, from the Centre for Policy Alternatives, comments on how much emphasis it gives to the individual freedoms and market economy rather than to social services and common wealth.
29 minute video.
Michael Schemmann, an ex-banker, explains the difference between money created as credit by a commercial bank , and money as currency created by the Bank of Canada; and Paul Grignon, the author of an animated video, explains “Money as Debt”.3 minute preview.
David Macdonald of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives in dialogue with Ion D. Moruso about the economy plus “Money and Debt” video clips.
3 minute highligths of the extended 29 minute video on pasifik.ca
Ingo Schmidt, Peter Prontzos, and Natassa Romanou explain the effects of the EU Central Bank and the Euro on Greece.
Highlights of Chris Hedges speech at the State of Extraction Conference in Vancouver, Canada on March 27, 2015
3-minute video
Chris Williams speaks at the “State of Extraction Conference” in Vancouver, Canada on March 28, 2015
3-minute Highlights
Ecologist William Rees, the co-author of the Ecological Foot Print, and Jennie Moore from BCIT, spoke in Vancouver, Canada about the imminent danger of an ecological suicide. Part 1 of 2 -15 minute videos
Mable Elmore, MLA explains the problems with the BC 2014 Budget, and invites citizens to ask politicians to legislate social changes.
15 minute
Seth Klein, the director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives in BC, alerts citizens of the deficiencies of our financial system, and on a follow up video, he offers some “Options for Raising New Revenues”.
15-minute video
Rob Rainer, director of Basic Income Network in Canada, explains the need to develop pilot projects in Canada.
29 minute video
The problems with capitalism are explained by Robert Jensen, a journalism professor at the University of Texas.
Two 15 minute videos
David Macdonald, from the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives, explains the difference between “aggregate economic growth” and ” per-capita economic growth.”
29 minute video.
Charles Lammam from the Fraser Institute, Seth Klein from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, and Jane Sterk from the Green Party of BC give their opinons on money, taxes, and budgets. BC Liberal and BC NDP politicians were invited, but we got no response by the recording dates: Feb. 7,11, and 14 , 2013
Part 1 of 2
29:30 minutes –
Representative democracy in Canada is increasingly delegating financial power to cabinet ministers who in turn are handing it over to Investment managers, from the banking sector. The problem is that human rights and direct democracy are not in the agenda of market capitalism.
Iglika Ivanova, from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, explains how inflated the budget is, and the possible political reasons for it.
29 minutes video – April 16, 2012
David MacDonald, from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, says that reducing social services is detrimental for the citizens and for the economy.
29 minutes internet video – April 11, 2012
Jeff Schutts, a history professor at Langara College, speaks about the culture of consumerism from Nazi Germany to the present.
2011 World Peace Forum, Vancouver-Canada
Rex Wyler, best known as the founder of Greenpeace, speaks at the Vancouver 2011 World Peace Forum, about economic growth.
Economics Professor John Richards, offers an independent look at the HST, PST, and GST.
CCPA Director Seth Klein presents an alternative policy about consumption taxes,That is, income taxes.
Former Premier of British Columbia Bill Vander Zalm dialogues with nowpolling.ca manager Pedro Mora, about the harmonization of services and sales taxes in BC.
Seth Klein, the director of the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives in BC, reports on their alternative budget for BC.
Professor Marvin Shaffer exposes the myth of economic advantages and value for money.
20 minutes Quik Time movie – 21 Mbts.