This short paper challenges the BC government's rhetoric that education funding is at "record levels", and shows that BC can afford to reinvest in public education. It originally appeared as a post on our Policy Note blog.

This short paper describes senior BC Hydro officials’ fears that earthquakes triggered by natural gas industry fracking operations could damage Peace River dams, putting hundreds if not thousands of people at risk should the dams fail.

It originally appeared as a feature post on our Policy Note blog.

This study assesses the provisions in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) related to mail delivery and courier services.

This study discusses how the Trans-Pacific Partnership’s intellectual property provisions would dramatically alter the balance between the interests of copyright owners and the users of protected goods and services.

This study examines the Trans-Pacific Partnership’s labour chapter and finds it cannot adequately protect, let alone enhance, labour rights across the TPP region, as promised by the Canadian and U.S. governments. This is because the TPP chapter largely reproduces the NAFTA model, with its escape clauses for national governments accused of violating worker rights, and its ineffective and complicated dispute process for challenging labour violations.

This study examines the potential impacts of the TPP on the Canadian automotive sector. The authors analyze the TPP’s detailed provisions governing tariffs, rules of origin and regional content. Canada’s far more rapid phase-out of vehicle import tariffs will favour locating new assembly invest­ment and reinvestment in the U.S. rather than Canada.