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BC: Higher income households can more easily reduce their GHG emissions
The CCPA-BC office released a Climate Justice Project brief today by Marc Lee. He has found that the richest of BC income earners are responsible for almost double the carbon footprint of the...
April 22, 2010 | BC Office
Taxation, "Free" Trade, Site C and more on Policy Note this week
The bloggers have been busy on Policy Note: Marvin Shaffer gets behind the Site C spin to ask why we need more electricity in the first...
April 21, 2010 | BC Office
Seth Klein on Bill Good Show, April 13
Seth will be on the Bill Good Show...
April 12, 2010 | BC Office
Tax cuts don’t make up for BC’s low minimum wages
On Policy Note this week, Iglika Ivanova reveals the gaping holes in the BC government's claim that tax cuts somehow compensate for this province's shamefully low minimum wage – now the lowest in...
April 7, 2010 | BC Office
Iglika Ivanova on stimulus, recovery and the Fraser Institute's creative mathematics
This week Iglika Ivanova published two posts on Policy Note that clearly explain the benefits of stimulus spending. She doesn't buy the federal government's claim that they can take full credit...
March 25, 2010 | BC Office
Peddling Greenhouse Gases: How Much Does BC Export?
Bill Rees, the father of the ecological footprint, likes to say that fossil fuels are a powerful hallucinogenic drug. We are all addicted to cheap and abundant fossil fuels, and so have reshaped...
March 16, 2010 | BC Office
BC Budget 2010 strong on sentiment, weak on vision
Iglika Ivanova and Marc Lee spent the day in Victoria at the budget lock-up, and have just posted their initial analysis of today's budget on Policy Note. They write,  ...
March 2, 2010 | BC Office
On the eve of budget day, Iglika Ivanova calls for a post-Olympics vision
In today's Vancouver Sun, CCPA economist Iglika Ivanova writes, This week, British Columbians will say goodbye to our party guests and turn back to everyday business. On Tuesday the...
March 1, 2010 | BC Office
Budget 2010 advance warning: more government spending cuts will further slow BC’s sluggish economic recovery
In anticipation of Tuesday’s provincial budget, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives warns that further cuts to public spending will impede the economic recovery, which is already...
February 25, 2010 | BC Office
Is it time to stop worrying about the economy?
If you read the papers in this province, you’d think BC had long forgotten about the recession. Every bit of economic good news is trumpeted enthusiastically, from small increases in employment to...
February 22, 2010 | BC Office
Will the Olympics boost long-term tourism to BC?
“We’ve invited the world, they’re coming, and the place is a mess.” That was the tag line the CCPA gave to our BC Solutions Budget back in 2004. At the time, we argued as strongly as we could that...
February 16, 2010 | BC Office
BC throne speech rather unimaginative despite talk of leading change
Today’s Throne speech marks a return to the optimistic tone that is typical of the start of each Parliament Session. Sure, there are the obligatory references to financial discipline and balancing...
February 10, 2010 | BC Office
Corporations are people too
Today on Policy Note, Blair Redlin discusses the BC government's plans to give corporations the right to vote in municipal elections:  "It seems corporations in B.C. feel they have inadequate...
February 1, 2010 | BC Office
Now for some disaster relief on the homefront
Today on Policy Note, Marc Lee praises Canadians' generosity towards Haiti, and...
January 22, 2010 | BC Office
Going for gold on minimum wages: CCPA-BC editorial in the Vancouver Sun today
Amidst all the hype about the 2010 Olympics, Iglika Ivanova and Marjorie Griffin Cohen remind us that...
January 20, 2010 | BC Office
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