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A eulogy for carbon pricing–and what comes next
About the authorMarc LeeMarc Lee is a Senior Economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Marc joined the CCPA’s British Columbia office in 1998,…
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The Challenges Facing Labour
Formidable challenges face Canada’s labour movement. Meeting these requires organized labour to reclaim its historic role as the progressive voice of all working people, and…
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Defending Green Jobs at the WTO
As a partner in Blue Green Canada, the United Steelworkers have issued the following news release. Erin Weir is an economist with the United Steelworkers union and…
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Moving Towards Climate Justice: Overcoming Barriers to Change
Paper presented at the annual conference of the Institute for New Economic Thinking About the authorSeth KleinSeth Klein is a CCPA-BC research associate and the…
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Moving Towards Climate Justice, Overcoming Barriers to Change: Seth Klein’s speech to the Institute for New Economic Thinking
CCPA-BC Director Seth Klein speaks at the annual meeting of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (an international gathering of leading economists) in Berlin. His…
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Overcoming climate despair: We are the U-turn generation
This week, federal Environment Commissioner Scott Vaughan released a disheartening report, slamming the Harper government for having no plan to meet is own 2020 greenhouse…
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Jobs: Ontario Left Behind
Statistics Canada reported today that April was another good month for the labour market. The Canadian economy added 58,200 jobs, most of which were full-time and all…
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Resource Royalties: A Cure for Dutch Disease
I have the following op-ed in today’s Saskatoon StarPhoenix: Royalty hike cure for Dutch disease Premier Brad Wall calls federal NDP Leader Tom Mulcair “very, very divisive” for…
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Brief Presented to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food
Download 214.99 KB 8 pages This brief, presented to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, analyzes the impact of key measures in…
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BC’s P3s promise “eye-watering” profits” for private investors. And more of them coming
Two stories that came out on the same day last week should raise concerns about where the BC government continues to go with public private…
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Don’t Kid Yourself: We all pay for the defunding of higher education
I went to McGill in the late 80s and early 90s when tuition fees were less than $1,200 a year, so with summer jobs and…
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Time to Expand the Manitoba Advantage.
There has been much discussion about the direction Manitoba Hydro (MH) is heading in and the role it should play in our province. It’s…
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Corak in Context
Professor Miles Corak had a post on The Globe and Mail’s Economy Lab yesterday comparing measures of unemployment in Canada and the U.S. I remember learning in Economics…
