- Home
- Topics
- Regions
- Magazines
-
-
-
The Monitor
A lot of AI discourse masks the fact that it is the result of a series of policy choices. Despite the government evoking Margaret Thatcher’s infamous “there is no alternative,” we do have a choice. And we should be serious about what that choice is.
-
-
-
-
Our Schools/Our Selves
A guide to standing up to book bans and beyond, and how to protect and strengthen public education in Canada
-
-
-
-
- Media Inquiries
- Subscribe
- Legacy Gifts
- About
- Contact
- Donate Now
- Donate Now
Resource Economics Project (BC)
Investing causes of social and environmental insecurity in resource-dependent communities
The B.C. Office’s Resource Economics Project is a special research desk staffed by award-winning journalist and researcher Ben Parfitt. This environmental justice initiative looks into the causes of economic and social insecurity in B.C.’s resource-dependent communities. It offers policy solutions aimed at meeting the joint challenges of environmental sustainability, jobs and social justice.
In February 2025, the CCPA closed its BC Office. However, most of the people formerly associated with the BC Office are continuing their work at a new organization—BC Policy Solutions. An amicable separation agreement has been reached between the two organizations, and we encourage people to continue to support the good work of both the CCPA and BC Policy Solutions. The CCPA continues to ensure the voices and concerns of British Columbians are included in its national independent research, analysis and expertise and BC Policy Solutions continues to support the CCPA’s important research work on issues affecting all Canadians.
-
BC Jobs Plan Reality Check: The First Two Years
Download 2.2 MB34 pages This report assesses the impact of the BC Jobs Plan two years in. The government’s six-month progress reports have declared it…
-
BC Jobs Plan failing to deliver, says new report: change in strategy needed to boost job creation
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Vancouver) Statistics Canada data reveals that BC’s labour market stalled in 2013, despite the much-hyped BC Jobs Plan launched over…
-
BC Jobs Plan Failing to Deliver
Our report BC Jobs Plan Reality Check: The First Two Years analyzes the impact of the BC Jobs Plan, launched in 2011 because of the…
-
Burning issues for Metro Vancouver
The front page story of today’s Vancouver Sun takes on Metro Vancouver’s waste incineration facility in Burnaby. The Fraser Valley Regional District has been strongly…
-
BC government should heed the call to consult on forestry changes
British Columbia’s forests represent the single-largest renewable asset that we have, a public resource shared with First Nations across the province. Whatever the fate may…
-
Open letter calling for public consultation on changes to Tree Farm Licences
This open letter was sent to Premier Christy Clark and Forests, Lands and Natural Resources Minister Steve Thomson on December 9, 2013, and released to…
-
With Victoria’s commitment to develop a global LNG industry, should BC revise its greenhouse gas reduction targets?
BC stands at a carbon crossroads: developing a multi-billion-dollar liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry would make it impossible to obey BC’s 2007 law on greenhouse…
-
The wrong question in the wrong forum
It didn’t take very much time at the joint federal-provincial environmental hearing into Site C, which started this week in Fort St. John, to realize…
-
You always learn something when accountants feud
Every year in BC people who follow government get an early Christmas present in late November, For the better part of a week BC’s Auditor…
-
Only 6% of BC Ombudsperson’s recommendations for addressing crisis in seniors care implemented by provincial government: report
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) A year and a half after the release of an exhaustive and damning report on the state…
-
BC government’s non-response on seniors care
In 2012, the BC Ombudsperson made 140 recommendations to the Ministry of Health to improve seniors care by fixing BC’s home and community health care…
-
Updates from the CCPA
Read the latest research, analysis and commentary on issues that matter to you.
CCPA Updates