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Employment & Labour
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Fast Facts: What is a CETA, and why should we be worried about it?
The Canadian Government is well down the road, with the European Union, towards negotiating a Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). They tell us that…
June 24, 2011
BC

Policy Note
Public Services & Privatization

Hiding $5 Billion
A reporter from back East called me yesterday to ask about the B.C. Auditor General’s May report into a Vancouver Coastal Health Authority P3. As…
June 23, 2011
BC

News & Commentary

Fossil fuel expansion as a crime against humanity
After 2010, which was one of the warmest years on record, 2011 has shown us astonishing patterns of extreme weather worldwide. It would take a…
June 23, 2011
National Office

News & Commentary

The Attack on Workers: Back(sliding) (in)to the Future
The public response to recent labour disputes has been a disturbing sideshow to the return of Parliament. What’s remarkable is the level of nastiness that…
June 22, 2011
Manitoba

Energy Policy
Environment & Sustainability

Fast Facts: McFadyen’s Bloated Numbers Make For Murky Bi Pole III Debate
As recorded in Hansard, since the beginning of the Legislative session on April 12, there have been ongoing relentless attacks, on Hydro, the West route…
June 22, 2011
National Office

News & Commentary

Summertime and the Reading is Easy
Staff at the CCPA would like nothing better than to curl up with a good book (or 10) this summer. Since today is the first…
June 21, 2011
BC

Policy Note
Tax Policy
The Economy

To HST or Not to HST
The campaign to save the HST is rather shameless, not to mention bad public policy. We won’t, as HST spin masters would have it, pay…
June 20, 2011
BC

Climate Change
Environment & Sustainability
Indigenous Rights
Policy Note
The Economy

The Wild West? Come on! Put your emotions in check
The on-line newsmagazine, The Tyee, recently ran an opinion piece of mine under the headline “The Wild West and Dysfunctional BC Politics: Fracking and sour…
June 17, 2011
Manitoba

Employment & Labour

Fast Facts: Canada Post locks out postal workers; Harper locks out collective bargaining
Members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) initiated job action on June 2 in response to Canada Post’s refusal to continue the collective…
June 17, 2011

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