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December 9, 2023

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  • Artificial Intelligence
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    Public Services & Privatization

    Consulting firms’ latest hustle: Using AI to write government reports

    About the authorSimon EnochSimon Enoch is the senior researcher for Saskatchewan issues and policies. He holds a BA in Political Science, a Masters in Labour…

    December 4, 2025
  • The WAC Bennett dam impounds the world’s seventh-largest reservoir. In 2012 a BC Hydro employee speculated a fracking operation may have caused a sudden change in the reservoir’s water levels. Photo: Jayce Hawkins.
    Environment & Sustainability
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    Policy Note
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    Peace River Frack-Up

    Part 1 of a report on how fracking poses risks to BC Hydro’s Peace River dams Read Part 2 of the report View timeline BC…

    January 9, 2020
  • A natural gas industry disposal well operation near BC's Hydro's Peace Canyon Dam. BC Hydro fears any re-sumption of pumping operations at the well site could trigger an earthquake with potentially devastating conse-quences for the dam and the safety of people living downstream. Photo © Garth Lenz.
    Environment & Sustainability
    Fracking & LNG
    Policy Note

    The Well from Hell

    Part 2 of a report on how fracking poses risks to BC Hydro’s Peace River Dams Read Part 1 of the report View timeline BC…

    January 9, 2020
  • Housing & Homelessness

    Social and Economic Trends: Taking Stock of Manitoba’s Social Housing Plan

    In 2017 the federal government announced a 10-year, $40 billion National Housing Strategy (NHS) to “help reduce homelessness and improve the availability and quality of…

    January 9, 2020
  • Energy Policy
    News & Commentary

    Fracking ban warranted to protect some of British Columbia’s biggest dams, FOI documents reveal

    (Vancouver) Fracking should be immediately banned close to BC Hydro’s two existing Peace River dams as well as the Site C dam construction project until…

    January 9, 2020
  • Our Schools / Our Selves

    Familiarity Breeds Resistance: Harris-era parents know there’s nothing innovative about Ontario’s education cuts

    About the authorErika ShakerErika (she/her) became Director of the National Office in 2020, but began her career at the CCPA in 1997 as director of…

    January 8, 2020
  • In Dec 2019 Premier John Horgan, Minister Carole James and Minister Adrian Dix gathered to celebrate the end of MSP premiums in BC, effective Jan 1, 2020. Credit: Province of BC/Flickr
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    Policy Note
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    Happy new year—no more MSP!

    It’s a brand new year, and BC’s Medical Services Plan (MSP) premiums are no more. That’s great news because MSP premiums were a very unfair…

    January 6, 2020
  • Climate Change
    Environment & Sustainability
    News & Commentary

    The 2020s will be the decade of the Green New Deal

    About the authorHadrian Mertins-KirkwoodHadrian Mertins-Kirkwood (he/him) is a senior researcher and political economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. His work focuses on federal…

    January 6, 2020
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    BC Solutions: News and commentary from the CCPA’s BC Office

    January 2020 Download 2 MB12 pages In this issue: Celebrating excellence in research The Canada Pension Plan is fuelling the climate crisis Affordable non-market rental…

    January 6, 2020
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    Infrastructure, Cities & Transit
    Public Services & Privatization
    Race & Anti-Racism

    The future is in our hands—not theirs

    January 2, 2020
  • Corporations & Corporate Power
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    International

    Stalemate in Ecuador

    January 2, 2020
  • Income & Wealth Inequality
    Indigenous Rights
    Race & Anti-Racism

    From Cheechako to Sourdough

    Back in 2014, friends of mine invited me to visit them in the Yukon.

    January 2, 2020
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    CCPA @ 40

    When the CCPA was founded 40 years ago, it was in direct opposition to a handful of right-wing, “free market” policy groups who, despite being…

    January 2, 2020
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