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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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Temporary Foreign Workers and the Election: A Major Issue Getting Scant Debate
An election should be a time to discuss key policy directions. One of the biggest policy transformations in the Harper era has been the enormous…
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From The Missing Issues File: Climate Change
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Can cooperatives humanize the economy?
Book Review of Humanizing the Economy: Cooperatives in the Age of Capital, by John Restakis, New Society Publishers, 2010. The economy is about business, right?…
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When the Counting Stops
What’s at Stake When BC’s Forest Inventory Efforts Fall Short Download 1.41 MB7 pages This short paper is adopted from a speech to the Winter…
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Environmental Violence
Time magazine recently reported that particulates in the air from “industry, traffic and domestic heating, cause 4,300 premature deaths in London each year”. That works…
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A Call to Action on the Forest Front
Does the provincial government have a coherent plan to address the exponentially deepening forest health crisis in our province? Evidently not, as outlined by two…
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Robin Hood Economics
Canada’s economic context at the time of Election 2011 is one of “precarious recovery”, and overall demand conditions are weakened by a few major factors.…
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Ten Years of Tax Cuts: A Household’s Perspective
I did my taxes yesterday and once again was surprised to see how low my family’s income taxes have gone. In 2010, my wife and…
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Health Act Inquiry Into Threats Posed by Sour Gas A Step Closer?
A local citizens initiative aimed at highlighting the health threats posed by sour gas wells in B.C.’s energy-rich Peace River region appears to be gaining…
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How income splitting works and who does it work for: some practical examples
Income-splitting works by allowing families to allocate more of their earned income to a lower tax bracket by sharing the earned income between the spouses…
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Income splitting: a poorly targeted non-commitment with negative labour market implications
I was on the CBC Early Edition this morning, discussing Stephen Harper’s first election promise: income splitting for families with children. If you missed it,…
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CCPA blogs the federal election
Our colleagues at the CCPA’s National Office have launched a great new blog that will offer commentary on the federal election. Check out Making It…
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