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Why did Canada just cave to Trump by scrapping the Digital Services Tax?
About the authorStuart TrewStuart serves as director of the CCPA’s Trade and Investment Research Project (TIRP), which pools the expertise of academic, labour and non-governmental…
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BC’s child care investments have major impact on 2019 living wage
Dramatically lower out-of-pocket child care costs offset increases in other family expenses READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. VANCOUVER—Living wage calculations for communities across BC decreased…
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Working for a Living Wage 2019
Making paid work meet basic family needs in Metro Vancouver Download 1.62 MB 8 pages For those seeking to calculate the living wage in other…
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Memo to northeast BC: More fracking earthquakes ahead
Of the many “unknowns” flagged in a recent science panel report, few are as disturbing as the finding that no one can say how destructive…
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Digging for Dividends
The use and abuse of investor-state dispute settlement by Canadian investors abroad Download 1.27 MB53 pages Investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) cases launched by Canadian investors…
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Canadian investor-state lawsuits disproportionately target environmental policy in developing nations: study
OTTAWA—Canadian investors disproportionately target environmental policy in developing nations when they file investor-state lawsuits outside North America, according to new analysis released today by the…
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Turn off the taps? Alberta already has Vancouver over a barrel
Drivers in Metro Vancouver are reeling from record high gas prices, and many commentators are blaming taxes. Now, Alberta’s Premier-elect Jason Kenney is threatening to…
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Making Social Housing Friendly for Resettling Refugees
Download 871.6 KB 32 pages This work is an extension of a longer-term project that began in 2015, in which we partnered with Welcome Place,…
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Time for BC to regulate gas prices, end gouging by oil companies: CCPA economist
Price increase at pump largely going to industry coffers VANCOUVER—It’s time for BC to follow the Maritime provinces and regulate gas prices to end gouging…
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The Unique Social Housing needs of Resettling Refugees
War and persecution force refugees to leave behind all that they know to embark on new and challenging experiences of resettlement. In Winnipeg, they meet…
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Education funding: If it looks like a cut and it hurts like a cut, then it probably is a cut
How an increase becomes a cut The Ontario government will increase education funding by $1 billion over the next three years. If this sound okay,…
