1. Abandoning the Public Interest
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2001
   The neo-liberal drive to cut red tape is costing lives. Exposing the hidden costs of deregulation and privatization.
2. Alien Invasion
   How the Harris Tories Mismanaged Ontario
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2001
   An examination of the devasting results of seven years of social and economic destruction inflicted the by the right-wing fanatics who ruled Ontario under the premiership of Mike Harris.
3. Another world is possible if...
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2004
   Susan George suggests that we can create a new and better world -- if we act together to bring about changes. She discusses the ifs and hows.
4. Bennett Jones LLP
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   
5. Brock University
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   
6. Canadian Federation of Students (CFS)
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   
7. Canadian Union of Public Employees
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   
8. Class Warfare
   Interviews with David Barsamian
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1996
   
9. Common Sense for Hard Times
   The Power of the Powerless to Cope with Everyday life and Transform Society in The Nineteen Seventies
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1976
   Presents a vision of society as it is and as it could be. Putting the problems of contemporary daily life in historical perspective, it reveals that they have their roots in the way our society is organized, and thereby enables us to re-examine our own situation and experience.
   
10. Democracy's Oxygen
    How Corporations Control the News
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    Winter shows that far from providing "democracy's oxygen," the news media legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informated, news organizations manufacture public consent for policies which favour the corporate elite.
11. The Enemy of Nature
    The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    We live in and from nature, but the way we have evolved of doing this is about to destroy you. Capitalism and its by-products -- imperialism, war, neoliberal globalization, racism, poverty, and the destruction of community -- are all playing a part in the destruction of our ecosystem.
12. False God
    How the Globalization Myth has Impoverished Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    Laxer argues that the neoconservative economic agenda is folly, and that the United States is caught in a downward spiral of limited government power and widening social divisions. He demonstrates that continued free trade with the United States will doom Canada economically, socially, and poolitically.
    
13. Friends of Canadian Broadcasting
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    An association of Canadians who share a commitment to expanding the quality and quantity of Canadian programming on our nation's airwaves.
14. GATS: How the World Trade Organization's new "services" negotiations threaten democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    Examines closed-door negotiations to expand the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), which have the goal of commercialize every service sector in every WTO country, including essential services such as health care, education, and drinking water.
    
15. Goodmans LLP
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
16. Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
17. How Deregulation Destroyed Canada's Airlines
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
    Skene links the deregulation of Canada's airline industry with layoffs, service disruptions, higher fares, privatization, and bankruptcies.
18. International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (CLC)
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
19. International Trade Union Summit on Privatization Proceedings
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    
20. KPMG Management Services LP
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
21. Modern Capitalism and Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1975
    For revolutionaries one central point must be grasped to understand how the system works: the struggle of human beings against their alientation, and the ensuing conflict and split in all spheres, aspects and moments of socia life. As long as this struggle is there there ruling strata will continue to be unable to organise their system in a coherent way, and society will lurch from one accident to another. These are the conditions for revolutionary activity in the present epoch -- and they are amply sufficient.
    
22. Moscow Gangsters
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1992
    A conversation with Boris Kagarlitsky, a Russian social activist.
23. National Union of Public and General Employees
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
24. The Other Mexico
    The North American Triangle Completed
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
    
25. Pensions Under Attack
    What's behind the push to privatize public pensions
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
    
26. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
27. Private guards block public street
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1989
    
28. Privatization
    A global disease
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    
29. Privatization and Health Care
    The Case of Ontario Nursing Homes
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    Tarman identifies many problems with privatization, among them, a basic contradiction between the profit motive and quality of care, poor accountability and lack of public input, less government control of services with the balance of power decidedly in favour of the nursing home industry, and the problem of access.
    
30. Privatization: Fiction Versus Fact
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1992
    The corporate sector is the big winner from privatization.
31. Privatization in the Canadian Health Care System
    Assertions, Evidence, Ideology and Options
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
    
32. The Privatization Putsch
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    According to Hardin, privatization is the expression of the ideology of a right wing, corporate agenda: business wants to gets its hands on public funds and politicians are more than willing to hand over publicly owned enterprises and public services to business friends, nearly always on terms that are immensely favourable to the corporations involved.
    
33. Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC)
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
34. Radical Digressions
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2010
    Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radcial left-libertarian perspective.
    
35. The Real Expenses Scandal
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    One of the consistent features of Private Finance Initiatives (PFI) is that the projects are reverse-engineered to meet the demands of corporate investors. This, for example, is how the £30m public scheme to refurbish Coventry#s two hospitals became a £410m private scheme to knock them both down and rebuild one of them - containing fewer beds and fewer doctors and nurses.
36. Recolonization or Liberation
    The Bonds of Structural Adjustment and Struggles for Emancipation
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    According to the International Monetary Fund (IMP) and the World Bank, structural adjustment is the goal of the economic and social programs which they impose upon indebted Third World governments. This booklet examines Structural Adjustment Programs from the perspective of those who are made to bear the burden of 'adjustment' in countries around the world. It shows how not only nations of the Third World, but also Canada and Eastern Europe, are being subjected to structural adjustment.
37. Retreat From Governance
    Canada and the Continental-International Challenge
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    
38. Second-class health care for immigrants, seniors?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2006
    A two-tier system means better care for the affluent, and worse or no care for the rest.
39. Shooting the Hippo
    Death by Deficit and Other Canadian Myths
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
    An examination of how economic policy systematically favours the interests of the rich while pretending to be for the common good.
40. Slamming the World Bank and IMF
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Activists and NGOs converge on Washington. to protest the World Bank and IMF.
41. Society of Energy Professionals
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
42. The State We're In
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
    
43. Targeting Iran
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    A critical analysis of the Bush administration's policies towards Iran.
44. Ten Health Care Myths
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1995
    Medicare's opponents have launched a sustained ideological attack on medicare. Their propaganda relies on myths and misrepresentations.
45. The Third World Debt: The Comforts of Newspaper Pie
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1991
    Canadians are unaffected by the Third World, since most of it arrives in the form of newspaper headlines.
46. Wasting Away
    The Undermining of Canada's Health Care System
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    Reform has led to lower quality, diminishing employee rights, and more unpaid work for women in the home.

Experts on Privatization in the Sources Directory

1. Brock University
2. Canadian Federation of Students (CFS)
3. Canadian Union of Public Employees
4. Connexions Information Sharing Services
5. CorpWatch
6. Friends of Canadian Broadcasting
7. Goodmans LLP
8. International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (CLC)
9. KPMG Management Services LP
10. National Union of Public and General Employees
11. Parliamentary Names & Numbers
12. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
13. Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC)
14. Society of Energy Professionals