(Vancouver) As the BC and federal governments continue to push for LNG (liquefied natural gas) development and export, a major new study details the consequences of ramping up fracking and LNG production: not only serious environmental and climate impacts, but grave risks to Canada’s energy security if conducted at the scale envisaged by the BC government.
Stuart Trew unpacks the Trans-Pacific Partnership on The Agenda
Proponents of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal have called it an historic opportunity for Canada. But critics consider it secretive, dangerous, and even potentially undemocratic. CCPA's Stuart Trew appeared on TVO's The Agenda with Steve Paikin to help unpack the massive trade deal and discuss its implications and consequences for the Canadian economy.
Le PTP et le Canada
Cette fiche d'information fournit des renseignements sur le Partenariat Transpacifique (PTP), un accord de commerce et d’investissement que douze pays négocient depuis 2008. La fiche d'information donne un aperçu des enjeux et conséquences de la participation du Canada dans le PTP, ainsi que le type de restrictions le PTP met sur la politique et la réglementation gouvernementale.
The TPP and Canada
This 4-page fact sheet provides readers with background on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a 12-country trade and investment treaty negotiation that began in 2008. The fact sheet outlines some of the issues and consequences of Canada's involvement in the TPP, as well the kind of restrictions the TTP puts on government policy and regulation.
Our Schools/Our Selves: Spring 2015
This issue of Our Schools/Our Selves is a collective response to the demonstrable lack of educational resources that focus on and speak to continental and diasporic African communities. It explores how Blackness has shaped the ways in which we as African educators, cultural producers, and curators imagine and relate to notions of learning, knowledge production and popular education.
From Patchwork Quilt to Sturdy Foundation
On May 14, 2015, CCPA-NS Director Christine Saulnier, and CCPA-NS Research Associate Tammy Findlay, wrote this submission to the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development’s Regulated Child Care Review.
“It’s Home”
Our research study responds to questions: how do female students define and measure their own successes? And what factors have contributed to their successes? Bonnycastle and Simpkins interviewed 27 female postsecondary students. See full report above.
How corporatization devalues teaching, research, and public service in universities
Extreme Makeover: Monitor edition
A Penny For Your Thoughts
Simmering conflicts in higher education have reached the boiling point across Canada and around the globe. Teach-ins, occupations, strikes, and mass protests are being mobilized against exorbitant tuition fees, declining educational quality, mismanagement, the commodification of research, and the suppression of free speech and critical inquiry. A Penny For Your Thoughts shows how Canadian higher education has come to this point.