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Working toward a socially and economically just British Columbia
Established in 1997, the CCPA’s BC Office investigates key challenges facing our province through independent research, analysis and expertise. We propose real, workable solutions, and share our findings as widely as possible to advance social, economic and environmental justice – and to challenge the message that there is no alternative.
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5 signs the BC economy is weak and what this means for Budget 2016
Yesterday, the provincial government released its 2015/16 Second Quarterly Report: an update on where provincial finances are at six months into the fiscal year and where…
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Is your pension fund in climate denial?
Fossil fuel divestment campaigns have become a focus for climate change organizing, targeting university endowments, churches, foundations and pension funds. While the motivations are primarily…
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Why are so many people needing food banks when the BC economy is growing?
Last week, Statistics Canada released new data showing the BC economy did better than expected in 2014, growing by 3.2% in real terms. This is…
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BC’s food system relies on vulnerable migrant workers; study recommends sweeping changes
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Vancouver–A new study finds that citizenship status plays a key role in farmworker safety, and recommends significant changes to immigration…
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Citizenship and Precarious Labour in Canadian Agriculture
Download 1.44 MB36 pages Based on interviews with 200 farmworkers, as well as representatives from industry, advocates and civil servants, this study finds that most…
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Pension Funds and Fossil Fuels
The Economic Case for Divestment Download 969.66 KB 46 pages The study makes the economic case for divestment from fossil fuels, due to risk factors…
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Pension funds at risk due to fossil fuel assets: study
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA—Canadian pension funds are exposed to a wide range of risks from their holdings of fossil fuels, says a study…
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Five LNG whoppers
British Columbians have heard many “too good to be true” claims about the benefits the province will receive by launching a liquefied natural gas (LNG)…
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Major new SSHRC grant to examine fossil fuel industry in Western Canada
(Vancouver) Who is behind the wheel of fossil fuel extraction in Western Canada and what influence do they wield? These are the central questions driving…
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We need a “war-time” approach to tackling the climate challenge
“So far as it is possible, Canada’s effort in this war must be a planned and concerted national effort… In order to have the tremendous…
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Will proposed new Senators be an aristocracy of the distinguished?
Ruth Ellen Brosseau is a Member of Parliament against the odds. A single mother and the assistant manager of a pub, she was elected in…
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The federal election is over. Now can we really talk about how to improve gender equality?
After an election campaign in which women’s equality became a rhetorical tool in a divisive attempt to instill fear and xenophobia in voters and control…
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