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  • Variations on a theme: Twenty years of anti-terror measures in an already terrorized community

    The history and ongoing legacy of slavery shouldn’t be seen in contrast to the two decades of anti-terror. Rather, we should view the post-9/11 era as a permutation and extension of that history and legacy.

    The history and ongoing legacy of slavery shouldn’t be seen in contrast to the two decades of anti-terror. Rather, we should view the post-9/11 era as a permutation and extension of that history and legacy.

  • Resource Economics Project (BC)

    Fossil fuel companies broke numerous rules intended to protect threatened caribou, suppressed report shows

    VANCOUVER – BC’s Oil and Gas Commission sat on a damaging audit for nearly four years that showed companies that drill and frack for natural gas repeatedly broke rules intended to protect threatened boreal caribou. The document, obtained by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), underscores lax regulatory oversight…

  • What can governments do to combat inflation? A lot

    Tackling inflation can be part of a public-led recovery—it only requires government to reduce or maintain prices in areas they control.

    Tackling inflation can be part of a public-led recovery—it only requires government to reduce or maintain prices in areas they control.

  • Fast Facts: Community looking for action plan from province on poverty

    When Lieutenant Governor Janice Filmon delivers the throne speech on November 21, a plan for poverty reduction should top the government’s priority list. The Province has promised a plan by next year’s budget and Manitobans are waiting for details. Poverty comes in many forms, most of them hidden from public…

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    Damming the information flow: BC government officials button lipped on potentially dangerous dams

    Early last spring, provincial civil servants cut off virtually all communication about what the government knew about a sprawling network of potentially dangerous and unregulated dams in northeast BC on the pretext they could not comment because of the impending election. The coordinated effort meant there was virtually no comment…

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    BC Tax Commission focuses on business and not the rest of us

    This fall we presented recommendations to the provincial government’s “Commission on Tax Competitiveness”, which released its final report today. But the Commission suffered from a basic flaw: an exclusive focus on business taxes. What about how BC’s overall tax system affects the large majority of British Columbians? The Commission’s terms…

  • Education Project

    Our Schools/Our Selves: Fall 2009

    Divided We Stand, United We Fall: Challenging how we think about environmental education In the lead-up to the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009, Stephen Lewis laments in this issue of Our Schools/Our Selves that it may be too late to prevent a climate catastrophe. Stepping up…

  • Education Project

    Our Schools/Our Selves: Winter 2003

    Bringing light to the system: Toronto’s Dissident trustees take on the Province On August 27th, 2001 four women, trustees on the TDSB (Toronto District School Board) meet with the Editorial board of the Toronto Star. It is one o’clock and they want to explain to why it is that in…

  • National Housing Day: A profile of WestEnd Commons

    This past weekend marked Canada’s National Housing Day. In recent history, housing in Canada hasn’t been a hopeful topic. In 1993 federal funds for new social housing development were cut and responsibility for social housing was devolved to the provinces. Provinces have since borne the brunt of filling this funding…

  • 800,000 Years

    The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) held its 35th session recently in Geneva, on the northern shore of Lac Leman. Across the water from the UN quadrant where the IPCC’s decision-making body met lies Mont Blanc. At 4800 metres Mont Blanc is the highest peak in the Alps. Like…

  • New community development model emerging in Saskatoon inner city

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT Saskatoon – According to a recent Centre for Policy Alternatives groundbreaking study on inner city community development, a unique form of ‘bottom up’ development in Saskatoon and Winnipeg has been created largely by core residents themselves. Professor Jim Silver, University of Winnipeg, says…

  • Enbridge Pipe Dreams and Nightmares

    We released today a report by yours truly on the economic costs and benefits of the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline. In particular, I take aim at the outrageous claims about jobs made by the feds and Enbridge as part of their sales pitch. The report takes a closer look at the input-output modelling of…