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  • Brief to House of Commons Finance Committee on Bill M-315

    Download 102.73 KB 3 pages This brief was submitted on April 5, 2013 to the House of Commons Finance Committee for the hearing on Bill M-315. It was prepared by Dr. Christine Saulnier, Director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ Nova Scotia Office. Cette information est disponible en français: Mémoire…

  • Public and social services jobs: an economic lifeline in communities across Ontario

    In Ontario, there is mourning about the loss of manufacturing jobs. There is concern about the growth of precarious service jobs. And there is enthusiasm about the prospects of knowledge-based jobs. But in the midst of all of this, where are the present-day middle-income jobs? The red line in Figure…

  • Putting the public interest first (Part 1)

    Corporations can and should be made socially responsible Corporations are different from other business entities because they attract capital investment by socializing a portion of shareholder risk. Investors are keenly aware that their investment returns are proportional to their investment risk, so their investment strategy aims at reducing risk while…

  • BC’s controversial contract obligations dwarf its debt

    Most of the discussion around the delivery of British Columbia’s public accounts this week has centred on debt (Marvin Shaffer makes excellent points in the previous post on why debt is not always bad) and on how BC got the money to balance its books. Something else worth looking at,…

  • March 2004: The Forgotten Bomarc Story

    Martin government should apply lessons of Bomarc to Bush’s NMD Last May, in an informative article in The Monitor, Lesley Hughes revealed how the U.S. government put pressure on the Canadian government to accept nuclear warheads for Bomarc missiles that were already stationed on Canadian territory–a move the U.S. viewed…

  • Encana Sunrise gas plant near Farmington. © Garth Lenz

    How clean is a BC that subsidizes accelerated fossil fuel extraction?

    When the provincial government unveiled its new climate plan late last year, Environment Minister George Heyman, Green Party leader Andrew Weaver and Premier John Horgan presented a happy, united front as ceremonies got underway at Vancouver’s main library. But the biggest smiles of the day may have been on the…

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    Site C’s biggest beneficiary? Natural gas companies, not us.

    This post originally appeared on DeSmog Canada. On January 20, BC Hydro issued a press release singing the praises of a new hydro transmission line not far from where preliminary work has begun to build the $9-billion Site C dam. The release, headlined “New transmission line to power development in…

  • Thoughtful, committed citizens make change: Right to Housing

    Affordability of housing has been an important issue in Winnipeg for the last decade or so, with vacancy rates well below three percent and rents rising every year. In recent years, however, there has been an increase in discussion of housing, and a broader awareness that something needs to change…

  • The Latin American Revolution (Part IV)

    The Bolivarian Revolution gives real power to the people An interview with Julio Chavez by Asad Ismi Julio Chavez is one of the leaders of the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela. In his country, he is known as “the other Chavez” (referring to President Hugo Chavez, to whom he has no…

  • Fast Facts: Humanitarian and Poverty COVID Crisis Looms

    Open Letter to Province of Manitoba Below are the contents of an open letter sent to Premier Pallister and Minister of Families Heather Stefanson on November 10th from Make Poverty History Manitoba. There is broad consensus that COVID-19 disproportionately affects people living in poverty as income is a social determinant…

  • Growing Gap

    40 % des enfants autochtones du Canada vivent dans la pauvreté, selon une étude

    lire l’etude ici. OTTAWA – Les enfants autochtones du Canada sont deux fois et demie plus susceptibles de vivre dans la pauvreté que les enfants non autochtones, selon une étude dévoilée aujourd’hui par le Centre canadien de politiques alternatives (CCPA) et Aide à l’enfance Canada. L’étude désagrège les statistiques sur la…

  • The end of Site C? BC Utilities Commission finds “tension cracks” in BC Hydro’s case for the mega dam

    The BC Utilities Commission final report on Site C is a bombshell. It now seems very likely we will see the termination of the BC Hydro mega-project by the end of the year. I had anticipated a final report that was more equivocal, which would result in a difficult decision…