To fully address Metro Vancouver’s housing crisis, an ambitious build-out program of 10,000 new units annually of non-market rental housing is needed and should include public housing and co-ops that are truly affordable for ordinary households.
The greatest need is rental housing for low- to moderate-income households, precisely the kind of housing that is unprofitable for private-sector developers who would rather build luxury units for sale to the highest bidders worldwide.
With climate and energy issues dominating much of the political debate, the question of how and what students learn about these issues in our public schools has become an increasingly contentious issue. This is especially the case in Western Canada, where recent comments by conservative politicians and pundits like Alberta Education minister Adriana LaGrange and Danielle Smith try to characterize the public-school curriculum as biased and even outright hostile to the oil and gas industry.
REGINA—With climate and energy issues dominating much of the political debate, the question of how and what students learn about these issues in our public schools has become an increasingly contentious issue. This is especially the case in Western Canada, where recent comments by conservative politicians and pundits like Alberta Education minister Adriana LaGrange and Danielle Smith try to characterize the public-school curriculum as biased and even outright hostile to the oil and gas industry.
A new book edited by Edouard Morena, Dunja Krause and Dimitris Stevis, Just Transitions: Social Justice in the Shift Towards a Low-Carbon World, explores the question "How can we secure jobs in the shift towards sustainable production?"
The book features a chapter written by CCPA senior researcher, Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood and Parkland Institute's Ian Hussey. Their chapter offers a critical account of Canada’s government-led phase-out of the coal sector.
Tell your new MP that we need investment in our communities, not a tax cut
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) manages one of the country’s largest pools of investment capital at over $400 billion. How pension funds choose to invest has significant bearing on how we collectively address the climate emergency and the needed energy transition away from fossil fuels. This report asks if the CPPIB is investing with the 1.5-degree Celsius limit on global average temperature rise as outlined in the Paris Agreement and finds it is not.
(Vancouver) How pension funds choose to invest has significant bearing on how we collectively address the climate emergency and the needed transition from fossil fuels, says a report released today by the Corporate Mapping Project and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, BC Office.
How pension funds choose to invest has significant bearing on how we collectively address the climate emergency and the needed energy transition away from fossil fuels. This report asks if the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is investing with the 1.5-degree Celsius limit on global average temperature rise in mind as outlined in the Paris Agreement and finds that it is not.
From publishing groundbreaking research to fact checking party platforms during the federal election, a round up of what we've been up to this year at CCPA.
2019 has been a busy year for our team. From publishing groundbreaking research to fact checking and analyzing party platforms during the federal election, here is a round up of what we've achieved this year:
Our research team analyzed planks of federal parties, assessing who would benefit from proposed programs and how they measured up against the Alternative Federal Budget.
In the lead up to October’s election, we published: