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Scott Lough / Flickr” style=”border-radius:0px;–objectFit:cover;–imagePosX:50%;–imagePosY:50%” decoding=”async” srcset=”https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/PN_may2018_caribou-1024×480.jpg 1024w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/PN_may2018_caribou-300×141.jpg 300w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/PN_may2018_caribou-768×360.jpg 768w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/PN_may2018_caribou.jpg 1280w” sizes=”(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px” />Threatened caribou further endangered: Suppressed audit shows Oil and Gas Commission undermining provincial efforts to save species
On an April morning in 2014, members of the Fort Nelson First Nation tucked into a helicopter to begin a day of flying to fossil…
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Why would a boom town need charity? Report examines inequities in Saskatchewan’s oil boom
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT Regina — When we think of a “boom town,” we often imagine a formerly sleepy rural town suddenly…
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Fossil fuel companies broke numerous rules intended to protect threatened caribou, suppressed report shows
VANCOUVER – BC’s Oil and Gas Commission sat on a damaging audit for nearly four years that showed companies that drill and frack for natural…
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From housing market to human right: A view from Metro Vancouver
Submission to the Government of Canada, National Housing Strategy public consultations Download 1.97 MB7 pages This submission was made to the Government of Canada’s consultation on National Housing…
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A Prairie Patchwork
Reliance on oil industry philanthropy in Saskatchewan boom towns Download 849.68 KB24 pages When we think of a “boom town,” we often imagine a formerly…
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Deep poverty: BC government can—and should—end it
The BC government’s public consultations into the development of a poverty reduction plan have ended. Now the ideas and recommendations from hundreds of British Columbians…
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Too little too late: Lisa’s story
I’ve had the opportunity to work and to learn in Brazil, India, Mozambique, and the Philippines, all over rural Saskatchewan, including with Indigenous communities in…
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Ontario election 2018: Turning votes into seats
In Ontario’s first-past-the-post electoral system, it’s not just a matter of counting votes. Here are a few things to think about that may help determine…
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Chris Yakimov / Flickr” style=”border-radius:0px;–objectFit:cover;–imagePosX:50%;–imagePosY:50%” decoding=”async” srcset=”https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pn_may2018_CarbonBudgetFramework-1024×479.jpg 1024w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pn_may2018_CarbonBudgetFramework-300×140.jpg 300w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pn_may2018_CarbonBudgetFramework-768×359.jpg 768w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pn_may2018_CarbonBudgetFramework.jpg 1280w” sizes=”(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px” />A carbon budget framework for BC: Achieving accountability and oversight
When it comes to climate change Canada’s leaders have been great at setting targets for far into the future and then failing to meet them.…
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