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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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Electricity Policy in BC: “Buy High – Sell Low”
It was only a one-liner in the budget — the government plans to spend $10 million to advance the $400 million Northwest transmission line project…
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Accounting games of Olympic proportion
The long awaited 2010 security budget was finally unveiled today. The latest estimate pegs the cost of securing the Olympics at $900 million or just…
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Numerically Challenged
The BC budget just doesn’t add up once you look at some of the details. Since the 2009 economy is shrinking, how can revenues from…
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Government wage freeze damages economy
One more sign as to how out of touch the February 17 BC Budget is with the rest of the world. The BC Budget includes…
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The Budget: A Determinant of Health
I know this budget is supposed to be good news for health, but I want to argue here that the exact opposite is true. We’ve…
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Time to take the axe to province’s dubious forest-related budget projections
Two words sprang to mind this week when perusing the provincial government’s latest revenue projections from BC’s once healthy, wealth-producing forests – confusing and misleading.…
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Happy Birthday, Carbon Tax!
A year ago, in the 2008 BC Budget, a new tax was born. There was a hush over the House as its mother, the Finance…
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Why do BC kids need Finance Minister’s charitable donation to buy them shoes?
Minister Hansen donated money for shoes for poor children. Then he delivered a budget that doesn’t help parents who receive income assistance or who are…
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Talk of addressing homelessness in Throne Speech remains just that
Yesterday’s Throne Speech got me excited with its promise of finally addressing homelessness in BC. Like everyone else, I expected the economy to be the…
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BC Budget 2009: Vanilla, No Sprinkles (revised)
Faced with a nasty recession at its doorstep, the BC budget is uninspiring and underwhelming in its ambition. Overall there is little that actively plans…
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Charity doesn’t buy a lot of shoes
OK, this is just a little crass, but the calculation begs to be done. It apppears rather than buying himself a new pair of shoes…
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Tales from the Mouth of the Fraser
With the BC budget just 27 hours away, in today’s Vancouver Sun, you can find my pre-budget oped. Alas, as often happens, I am paired…
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