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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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There is no Goldilocks in democracy
Oh boy, we’re in for a lot of democracy here in BC this year. Federal election in May and probably an HST referendum in June. My…
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Corporate tax cuts haven’t delivered
Yesterday I debated an economist from the Fraser Institute on CBC radio about the Federal Budget. One of the points of contention (and indeed, one…
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More thoughts on BC’s new minimum wage
As some of you may have seen, Adrienne Montani (of First Call) and I had a piece in the Vancouver Sun earlier this week: a…
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Working for a Living Wage 2011
Making Paid Work Meet Basic Family Needs in Metro Vancouver Download 1.39 MB8 pages Please note: The updated 2019 Living Wage report is now available. Attachments Living Wage…
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Reading the tea leaves in a Cabinet shuffle
Figuring out what the changes in a Cabinet shuffle mean is a lot like reading tea leaves: you can find just about anything you can…
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Fracking for oil in northern BC not worth serious health and environmental risks
Early last year, an army of workers at a remote natural gas operation in northern British Columbia set a world record for hydraulic fracturing or…
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Shale gas industry given water rights without public or First Nations consultation
On February 15 of this year, Calgary-based Canbriam Energy Inc. quietly applied to the BC government for the rights to pull billions of litres of…
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How flipping equity in P3s boosts profits and ends up with the projects being run from Channel Islands tax havens
Just like good stilton cheese, public private partnerships (P3s) were imported to British Columbia from the United Kingdom. And like good stilton, in the UK…
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Treat water rights with the respect they deserve
On Canada’s frequently drenched west coast, it is sometimes easy to forget that there are times and places where water is scarce. A case in point…
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Tradable Water Rights – Coming to a province near you
In January of this year, the BC government joined Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba to become the fourth province to announce that it is considering creating…
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Hydro rate hikes are bad news for BC’s poorest
BC Hydro has proposed to dramatically increase its residential electricity rates. While the proposal still must be approved by the BC Utilities Commission, and the…
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The Frontier Centre’s dubious numbers about public sector wages
As if the Fraser Institute needed any help getting its message in the media, there are now a number of Fraser clones that are preaching…
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