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Potential profits big enough to justify a massive lawsuit: 6 things you should know about the Cambie trial
The biggest constitutional trial “perhaps ever” in Canada is now in court. The future of our publicly funded health care system is at stake. Putting…
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5 reasons why private surgeries won’t shorten waits in the public system
After years of delay, Dr. Brian Day’s case against the BC Government is now being heard in BC Supreme Court. Day and his private for-profit…
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Privatizing public infrastructure is enormously costly. Let’s not repeat the mistake.
An announcement is expected next week on a plan for the long-awaited Victoria wastewater treatment plant, which has been the subject of ongoing controversy about…
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How the so-called “Clean Energy Plan” still wreaks havoc on BC Hydro’s rates
My wife says I hold on to things too long. Still, when I read BC Hydro’s most recent rate application to the BC Utilities Commission (BCUC), I…
The BC government’s updated climate (non-)plan: This is not leadership
Today, after many months of delay (on a Friday afternoon in summer), the BC government finally released an updated “Climate Leadership Plan.” Except it isn’t one.…
Fracking, earthquakes and hydro dams? Don’t worry. We have an understanding.
This is the second of two posts. Read the first here. Efforts by BC Hydro to ban potentially destructive natural gas company fracking operations in…
The wrong direction: A presentation on the proposed Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion
Presentation to the federal Ministerial Panel holding consultations on the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Proposal Presented in Burnaby, August 10, 2016 Thank you…
Dependence on tips leaves women workers vulnerable to sexual harassment
Recently tipping in the restaurant industry has been the subject of two national opinion polls, both of which suggest the public is divided on the…
Correcting the Fraser Institute’s crude assumptions
The Fraser Institute’s new report, The Costs of Pipeline Obstructionism, claims that lack of new export pipelines to tidewater is costing Canada $2.02–$6.4 billion dollars…
The BC economy’s unbalanced and inequitable growth
Skyrocketing property transfer tax revenues have been in the news the past few days, but the bigger story, well-documented in a recent Huffington Post article,…
A little-known election is limiting your free expression rights
You might not have noticed it, but since June 4th there has been an election going on in British Columbia – and legislation that governs…
BC needs to get to work on working poverty
Over 100,000 working-age people in Metro Vancouver were working but stuck below the poverty line in 2012, not counting students and young adults living at…