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Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - A Centre for Left-Wing Policies

 
The following is a hasty summary of the backgrounds of the first twelve listed writers for  CCPA Monitor dated  09/23/08.  Only two cannot be specifically indentified with the left, although it appears obvious that one is a feminist by involvement.

Paul Tulloch

Paul Tulloch had for 14 years worked for Statistics Canada and the former Labour Canada as a senior labour economist. He now works for various labour and socially progressive groups as a data analyst, researcher and economist. He is also an active volunteer correspondent for LabourStart.  

Marcia Angell

Dr. Marcia Angell is chief spokesperson for National Health Program (PNHP).

Roy LaBerge

Roy LaBerge is a former associate director of communications with the Canadian Labour Congress.  Article May 2008: The Truth About Canada

Jim Stanford

Jim Stanford, an economist with the CAW and a CCPA Research Associate, was one of six members of the Toronto Mayor’s Fiscal Review Panel.

Pat Armstrong

Dr. Pat Armstrong is a partner in the National Network on Environment and Women’s Health and the co-author or editor of many books, including “Women and Health Care Reform in Canada” and “Caring For/Caring About: Women, Home Care and Unpaid Caregiving.” Dr. Armstrong's decision-maker partners are the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions and the Women's Health Bureau at Health Canada, and her regional co-sponsor is the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.

Dr. James Winter

He has presented public workshops and lectures to groups ranging from the CAW and CUPW, to the Ontario Federation of Labour, the Council of Canadians, Canadian university student newspaper editors, and the Federal Heritage Department. He is currently working on a new book, and on a full length television documentary about the CAW.

Helen Forsey

Ontario, Lanark - Frontenac - Lennox and Addington, New Democratic Party

Writer, activist and translator (French, Spanish)

Daughter of late trade unionist, Senator and constitutional expert Eugene Forsey

 
Asad Ismi

 
Asad Ismi is The CCPA Monitor’s international affairs correspondent, and is from Pakistan. He is author of the highly acclaimed radio documentary, The Ravaging of Africa, which is about the destructive impact of U.S. imperialism on that continent. For his publications, visit www.asadismi.ws. Asad Ismi is a writer on international politics specializing in U.S. policy towards the Global South and the role of Canadian corporations there. He is author of two books, nine reports, three radio documentaries and 90 articles published in 20 magazines. He has written for 21 progressive Canadian labour unions and non-governmental organizations including the Canadian Union of Public Employees, Canadian Union of Postal Workers, Canadian Labour Congress, the Halifax Initiative Coalition and MiningWatch Canada.

Murray Dobbin

 
In “Writer Murray Dobbin and the NDP, Why No Disclosure?” Ricardo Rant writes: Columnist and author Murray Dobbin is a Canadian writer that I find myself reading very often as his work seems to be just about everywhere... I have two years worth of Word Warrior talking points to back up my claim of his blind support for the NDP. Murray would like us attack the other parties while ignoring the plethora of information that could be said about the NDP both provincially and federally. With titles like, "The NDP's tax proposals are dead on," and "Greens vs. NDP: who's greener?" it is painfully obvious of where his loyalties are.

Ed Finn

 
Ed Finn is the CCPA's Senior Editor. A collection of his essays, The Right is Wrong and the Left is Right, was recently published by the CCPA.

Helke Ferrie

 
For the past twelve years Ferrie has been researching medical politics and writing for various venues on a monthly basis. She occasionally publishes books written mostly by medical professionals who are especially concerned about environmental and nutritional medicine.  She released  Dr. Shiv Chopra’s memoirs. Entitled Corrupt to the Core - Memoirs of a Health Canada Whistleblower . It is introduced by MP Paul Dewar (NDP), lawyer David Yazbeck, and three recipients of the Swedish Right Livelihood Award, namely public health scholar and oncologist Dr. Samuel S. Epstein, physicist Dr. Vandana Shiva, and Maude Barlow of the Council of Canadians.