Saskatchewan: Where the Sun Always Shines


Major Publications

by John W. Warnock



Books and major reports:

"Selling the Family Silver: The Oil and Gas Industry in Saskatchewan." Regina: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, November 2006. 80 pp.

"Natural Resources and Government Revenues; Recent Trends in Saskatchewan." Regina: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, June 2005. 75 pp.

Saskatchewan: The Roots of Discontent and Protest. Montreal: Black Rose Books, May 2004. 427 pp.

The Disappearance of Affordable Housing in Regina. Regina: Council on Social Development Regina, January 2000. With Della MacNeil. 91 pp.

Saskatchewan Politics from Left to Right. Regina: Hinterland Publications, 1999. With Joseph K. Roberts and Lorne A. Brown. 112 pp.

The Other Mexico; The North American Triangle Completed. Photographs by Elaine Briere. Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1995. 330 pp.
       
Free Trade and the New Right Agenda.  Vancouver:  New Star  Books, 1988.  324 pp.
         
The Politics of Hunger:  The Global Food System.  Toronto, London and New York:  Methuen, 1987.  334 pp.
         
B.C.'s Reliance on Food Imports;  An Analysis of the Short and Long Term Prospects for Continued Food Imports into B.C.  Prepared for the B.C. Public Utilities Commission for the Inquiry into the Proposed Peace River Site C Dam Project, 1982.  240 pp.
 
The Other Face of 2,4-D; A Citizens` Report.  Penticton:  South  Okanagan Environmental Coalition, 1978.  With Jay Lewis. 167 pp.
         
Profit Hungry:  The Food Industry in Canada.  Vancouver:  New  Star Books, 1978. 278 pp.
  
Partner to Behemoth:  The Military Policy of a Satellite  Canada.  Toronto:  New Press, 1970.  340 pp.
         
Alliances and Illusions:  Canada and the NATO/NORAD Problem. Edmonton:  Hurtig Publishers, 1969.  With Lewis Hertzman and Tom Hockin.  154 pp.  

Selected articles and papers:

"Coalitions, Labour and the Political Left."  In Lorne Brown and Robert Stirling, eds. The Legacy of Labour in Saskatchewan and Beyond. Special Issue, Prairie Forum, Vol. 31, No. 2, Fall 2006, pp. 427-39.

"The CCF-NDP in Saskatchewan: From Populist Social Democracy to Neoliberalism." In William K. Carroll and Robert S. Ratner, eds. Social Democracy in Neoliberal Times. Halifax: Fernwood Books, 2005.

"The National Policy and 19th Century Imperialism and Colonialism." In Bob Stirling and Murray Knuttila, eds. The Impact of the Territorial Grain Growers Association on Prairie Politics. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Centre, Fall 2005.

"Industrial Agriculture Comes to Saskatchewan." In Harry P. Diaz, ed. Farm Communities at the Crossroads; Challenges and Resistance. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Centre, 2003.

"The Structural Adjustment of Capitalism in Saskatchewan." Regina: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, September 2003. 16 pp.

"Capitalism as the Enemy of Nature; Joel Kovel and Ecosocialism." Canadian Dimension Magazine, Vol. 37, No. 4, July/August 2003, pp. 34-36.

"The New Saskatchewan NDP: Janice Mackinnon and the Romanow Government.  Briarpatch Magazine,  Vol. 32, No. 5, June 2003, pp. 25-27.

"Sustainable Forestry Is Possible." Briarpatch Magazine, Vol. 32, No. 1, February 2003, pp. 27-29.

"Kyoto and the NDP Government." Briarpatch Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 5, June 2002, pp. 7-9.

"Canada and the New World Order," Canadian Dimension Magazine, Vol. 35, No. 6, November-December 2001, pp. 27-30.

"The Roots of Racism in Saskatchewan." Presented to the Symposium on the 100th Anniversary of the Territorial Grain Growers Association, University of Regina, November 21, 2001.

"Rebuilding Inner City Regina." Five part series printed in the Regina Leader Post, June - November 2001.

"The Truth Behind Forest Industry Subsidies," Canadian Dimension Magazine, Vol. 35, No. 4, July-August 2001, pp. 39-41.

"Saskatchewan's Corporate Forestry Policy," Policy Options, Vol. 22, June 2001, pp. 32-38.

"The New Green Alliance in Saskatchewan." Paper presented at the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanitites, University of Alberta, May 28, 2000. 15 pp.

"The Saskatchewan NDP and the Poor." Canadian Dimension Magazine, Vol. 33, No. 1, February 1999, pp. 35-37.

"Social Democratic Drought," Canadian Forum, Vol. 77, June 1998, pp. 5-6.

"Poverty and the Saskatchewan NDP." Paper presented to the meetings of the Society for Socialist Studies, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Ottawa, May 31, 1998. 15 pp.

"Agriculture: The Future of Food and Farming."  Canadian Dimension Magazine, Vol. 32, No. 1, January-February 1998. Editor for this special issue and wrote one piece: "Industrial Agriculture in the Era of Free Trade."

"Human Rights in the Era of Neoliberalism: The Example of Mexico." Paper presented to the Colloquium at the School of Human Justice, University of Regina, April 4, 1997. 7 pp.

"The Model Maquiladora," Canadian Forum, Vol. 75, June 1997, pp. 46-47.

"Social Democracy in New Zealand," Our Times, Vol. 15, No. 5, November/December 1996, pp. 18-20.

"The Mexican Disaster; Neoliberalism and the Collapse of the Peso," Canadian Forum, Vol. 73, April 1995, pp. 6-7.

"Changing Canada's Social Security Programs - Adopting the American Model." Presentation to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Human Resources Development, Regina hearings, November 24, 1994.

"NAFTA and the Other Mexico." Special Public Lecture, Society for Socialist Studies, Learned Societies meetings, University of Calgary, June 12, 1994.

"Capitalist Violence in Mexico." Society for Socialist Studies. Presented at the Learned Societies Meetings, University of Calgary, June 12, 1994.

"Globalization and the Economic Crisis," Address, Farm Communities at the Crossroads Conference, University of Regina, February 25, 1994.

"Buying Democracy," Canadian Forum, Vol. 72, November 1993, pp. 6-10.

"Mexico - Michoacan Struggles for Democracy, Canadian Dimension, Vol. 30, July-August 1993, pp. 33-35.

"The Impact of Free Trade on Mexico," Canadian Forum, Vol. 71, June 1992, pp. 10-13.

"Se Oponen los Canadienses al TLC con Estados Unidos Y Mexico." La Jornada [Mexico City], March 14, 1992 and La Voz de Michoacan [Morelia], February 20, 1992.

"Promoting the New Right Agenda."  Concluding chapter in Mark Stobbe and Lesley Biggs, eds.  Devine Rule in Saskatchewan.  Saskatoon:  Fifth House Publishers, 1991.

"Labour Trashed in New Zealand," Canadian Dimension, Vol. 25, No. 1, January/February 1991, pp. 46-47.

"Taxation `Reform' in New Zealand and Australia under Labour Governments." Prepared for Conference on the Goods and Service Tax, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and the Saskatchewan Federation of Labour, Regina, April 7-8, 1990.

"Neo-conservatism and the New Zealand Labour Government." Canadian Forum, Vol. 68, No. 783, November 1989, pp. 10-13.
       
"Regional Disparities and the Free Trade Deal."  Policy  Options, Vol. 10, No.3, April 1989, pp. 33-34.
         
"Chapter VII:  Agriculture."  In Duncan Cameron, ed.  The Free  Trade Deal.  Toronto:  James Lorimer & Co., 1988.          

"Agricultural Concessions."  In Ed Finn and John Calvert, eds. The Facts on Free Trade.  Toronto:  James Lorimer & Co., 1988.
         
"Sustainable Agriculture under Capitalism."  Protecting the Environment Conference, Simon Fraser University, April 1987.
         
"Economic Growth, Poverty and the Distribution of Food."  In Philip Ehrensaft and Fred Knelman, eds.  The Right to Food: Technology, Policy and Third World Agriculture.  New York: Pharma-Libri, 1987.
         
"Prospects for a Bilateral Free Trade Agreement with the  United States."  Prepared for the Trade Negotiations Secretariat, Saskatchewan Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, Regina, Saskatchewan, August 1986.
         
"Agriculture and the Food Industry."  In Warren G. Magnusson, ed.  After Bennett:  Alternatives for British Columbia.  Vancouver:  New Star Books, 1986.
         
"The World Food Market and Food Production in Less Developed Countries."  Political Economy Sessions, Learned Societies Meetings, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, June 1986.
         
"Canadian Grain and the Industrial Food System."  Political Economy Sessions, Learned Societies Meetings, Guelph University, June 1985.
         
"Environmental Degradation in the USSR and China:  The Agricultural Systems."  Political Economy Sessions, Learned Societies Meetings, University of British Columbia, June 1984.

"Biotechnology and Agriculture:  Social and Environmental  Questions."  Prepared for the Science Council of Canada,  March 1983.

"The Political Economy of 2,4-D."  Alternatives, Vol. 10, No. 3, Summer/Fall 1981.  With Jay Lewis.
         
"The Politics of the Environmental Movement."  Conference on Political Movements in the 1980s.  Sponsored by Studies in the Political Economy of Canada, University of British Columbia, January 1981.

"Marketing Boards and the Cheap Food Policy."  In The Land of Milk and Money:  Report of the Peoples` Food Commission.   Toronto:  Between the Lines, 1980.