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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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Eliminate and replace it: A better way to reform the basic personal tax amount
The new federal Liberal minority government has signalled that a tax cut will be its first order of policy business. That’s a shame because this…
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An electrifying announcement leads to more questions than answers
In late August, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau traveled to Vancouver to announce that the federal government had agreed to financially support a new hydroelectric transmission…
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Property taxes in Vancouver are still too low, fueling inequality and speculation
We’ve heard a lot of griping recently about Vancouver’s proposed property tax increase for 2020, but missing from the debate is a reality check on…
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Canada Pension Plan fuels climate crisis
“Financial experts say millennials will have to save an entire planet to retire,” says the satirical Beaverton. This is funny because it’s true. Less humorously,…
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Fossil Futures
The Canada Pension Plan’s Failure to Respect the 1.5-Degree Celsius Limit Download 4.71 MB32 pages The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) manages one of…
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Canada Pension Plan’s ongoing investments in fossil fuels: a moral and ecological failure and financial risk
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Vancouver – How pension funds choose to invest has significant bearing on how we collectively address the climate emergency and…
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Canada Pension Plan Fuels Climate Change Crisis
“Financial experts say millennials will have to save an entire planet to retire,” says the satirical Beaverton.
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Inquiry needed into gig work in BC
The BC government recently decided to permit the operation ride-hailing services, which are scheduled to begin before the end of the year. Other services, like…
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BC Government Fossil Fuel Subsidy Data Finally Public
For more than two years, the British Columbia government has vigorously fought efforts to compel the release of information on the hundreds of millions of…
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Canada’s fossil fuel lobby influences policy and decisions for major federal government projects
There’s no doubt that climate change and fossil fuel extraction were vote determining for significant sections of the population in the federal election. These issues…
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Big Oil’s Political Reach
Mapping fossil fuel lobbying from Harper to Trudeau Download 1.41 MB 64 pages In Canada between 2011 and 2018 the fossil fuel industry was one…
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Fossil fuel industry lobby influences federal policy regardless of who’s in government, new report
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (VANCOUVER) Over 60 per cent of voters in the recent federal election cast ballots for parties that campaigned…
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