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Painting itself into a corner: LNG and the climate-affordability trade-off in B.C.
The B.C. government has painted itself into a corner by claiming to be climate action leaders while at the same time encouraging increased gas production…
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Reopening Riverview Hospital not the answer
The BC government recently rejected the recommendation of the Union of BC Municipalities to re-instate Riverview Hospital. Our government has made the right decision. The…
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Fast Facts: Manitoba Needs a Public Childcare System
On September 19, Manitoba launched an on-line consultation on the province’s next multi-year plan for childcare. Since 2002, Manitoba has had two five-year plans, each…
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BC Commentary: A Review of Provincial Social and Economic Trends
Fall 2013, Volume 16, Number 3 Download 1.01 MB8 pages Highlights of recent CCPA-BC research. Inside this issue Time to rethink BC’s LNG plans by Ben…
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What can be done about BC Hydro rates?
The leak of the BC Hydro Rates Working Group paper, with its estimate that rates need to increase by 26.4 % in the next two…
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City of Regina, we need to talk
Regardless of the outcome in the City of Regina’s wastewater referendum being held today, there is one thing that is certain. We need to establish…
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Quebec Values Charter: Bad Solution to the Wrong Problem
It’s near impossible to ignore the current debate regarding the Québec Values Charter. It would seem laudable at first for a society to decide to reflect…
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Blackberry and what’s wrong with sectoral development
Another year, another dead Canadian tech giant. Blackberry was sold yesterday for scrap to the Toronto private equity firm Fairfax. The purchase price of $4.7 billion is…
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The rise and fall (and rise?) of Blackberry – the story that just won’t quit
This is an experiment. I’m writing an essay based on my latest Metro Morning column. Each of these columns take hours of prep, so I thought I’d…
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Regina’s P3 Columnists
As the referendum on whether to privatize Regina’s wastewater plant nears, the Regina Leader-Post is printing a column a day advocating the P3: John Gormley on Friday, Bruce Johnstone on Saturday, and Murray Mandryk yesterday.…
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Fast Facts: “Indians Wear Red”
Aboriginal Street Gangs in Winnipeg They were kids when they started. Teenagers locked up in the youth detention centre, watching movies about American street gangs.…
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Stats Can rebuts CFIB on public sector sick leave
Yesterday Statistics Canada published a nice counterpoint to part of the relentless drumbeat against public employees by organizations like the Fraser Institute and the Canadian…
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Trickle-down would work if it weren’t for the sponges at the top
This piece was first published in the Globe and Mail’s Economy Lab. Five years after a global economic crisis unleashed chaos on markets everywhere, income inequality has…
