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BC

Environment & Sustainability

Shale gas industry given water rights without public or First Nations consultation
On February 15 of this year, Calgary-based Canbriam Energy Inc. quietly applied to the BC government for the rights to pull billions of litres of…
March 15, 2011
BC

Environment & Sustainability

Fracking for oil in northern BC not worth serious health and environmental risks
Early last year, an army of workers at a remote natural gas operation in northern British Columbia set a world record for hydraulic fracturing or…
March 15, 2011
Manitoba

Corporations & Corporate Power
Environment & Sustainability
Reports

Manitoba’s Bi Pole III Debate
Where the rubber hits the road Download 1.02 MB 4 pages It is not coincidental that whether to run Bi Pole III down the east…
March 13, 2011
BC

Policy Note
Public Services & Privatization

How flipping equity in P3s boosts profits and ends up with the projects being run from Channel Islands tax havens
Just like good stilton cheese, public private partnerships (P3s) were imported to British Columbia from the United Kingdom. And like good stilton, in the UK…
March 9, 2011
National Office

News Release

Canadian military spending higher than any time since WWII: study
OTTAWA—Twelve years of budget increases have left Canadian military spending higher than at any time since the end of the Second World War, says a…
March 9, 2011
National Office

Government Finance
International
Reports

Canadian Military Spending 2010-11
Download 326.96 KB 11 pages This study examines Canada’s military spending and finds it is higher now than at any time since the end of…
March 9, 2011
BC

Environment & Sustainability

Treat water rights with the respect they deserve
On Canada’s frequently drenched west coast, it is sometimes easy to forget that there are times and places where water is scarce. A case in point…
March 9, 2011
National Office

Child Care
Corporations & Corporate Power

Cashing in or Selling Out?
OneStop Media Group and the Toronto District School Board Tonight, the Toronto District School Board is debating a motion over whether or not to extend…
March 9, 2011
Manitoba

Economic Indicators
Reports

Quality of Life Assessment is too important to be left to economists
Download 229.48 KB 4 pages In 2008, French President Nicolas Sarkozy established the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress. It was…
March 8, 2011

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