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Big “Fracking” Problem
Natural gas industry’s “fracking” risks causing earthquakes At the end of this month (Feb. 28), Quebec’s public consultations body, the Bureau des audiences publiques sur…
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Inequality
Hennessy’s Index: A number is never just a number Hennessy’s Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy, about Canada…
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Free to grow or free to fail? Emerging science raises questions about health of our future forests
As tree-planting company representatives from across British Columbia gather in Kelowna for a conference this week, a lot of attention will focus on the question…
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Ontario’s Deficit Quandary
When Politics Trump Economics Download 246.47 KB10 pages As it prepares its budget for 2011 — an election year — the Ontario government faces a…
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Saskatchewan’s Potash: Who Really Benefits? Report
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Regina — The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Saskatchewan Office today released Exploiting Saskatchewan’s Potash: Who Benefits? by John W.…
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Exploiting Saskatchewan’s Potash: Who Benefits?
Download 1.24 MB 37 pages The debate over the future of the Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc. has been limited to the issue of which…
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Poverty costs PEI over $240 million a year
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. CHARLOTTETOWN/HALIFAX–It is estimated that the total cost of poverty in Prince Edward Island is at minimum between $240 and $320…
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Cost of Poverty in Prince Edward Island
Download 360.76 KB7 pages It is estimated that the total cost of poverty in PEI is at minimum between $240 and $320 million per year,…
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BC Commentary: A Review of Provincial Social and Economic Trends
Winter 2011, Volume 14, Number 1 Download 1.89 MB8 pages Inside this issue: Cuts to Forest Service are too Deep by Ben Parfitt How BC’s…
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CCPA Review: Critics of Hydro/Government plans for Bipole III lack credibility
Last month the Winnipeg Free Press published a full page of criticism regarding the decision to run the Bipole III transmission line down the West…
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Over a decade, average BC wages fall below Canadian average
Every week the government publication BC Stats Infoline publishes a summary of usually pretty interesting things going on in British Columbia. They have a nice…
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The problems with the textbook analysis of minimum wages
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the sorry state of the BC minimum wage, stuck at $8 after nine years two months and still…
