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    Shaking the Peace: Fracking-induced earthquakes rattle BC Hydro execs and farmers alike

    BC Hydro officials were so alarmed by an earthquake that shook the ground at its sprawling Site C dam construction project in late November, they ordered a halt to all work and got on the phone to British Columbia’s Oil and Gas Commission (OCG). The 4.5 magnitude earthquake was linked…

  • Secret Surveillance Targets Civil Society

    Much of Canada’s spying is done on behalf of corporations I spy, you spy. . . In the world of big mining and big oil companies, it would seem that everybody spies. Canadians were profoundly shocked to learn that the Canadian government had been spying on the Ministry of Mining…

  • Education Project

    Our Schools/Our Selves: Summer 2014

    Privatization of Schools: An International View “Math wars”, attacks on teacher unions, old-fashioned commercialism, standardized assessment, and surveillance: debates over education have always been heated. But these days, the very concept of public education, the students who are served by it and those employed in this sector are in many…

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    Research for Communities: Justice Starts Here

    A one-stop shop approach for achieving greater justice in Manitoba In the report Justice Starts Here: A one-stop shop approach for achieving greater justice in Manitoba, authors Allison Fenske and Beverly Froese from the Public Interest Law Centre spoke with community groups who provide programming, opportunities, and services to people…

  • Massive Secret Surveillance in Canada

    Canadian government spies on Brazil — and its own citizens In the September issue of the CCPA Monitor, I reported on the U.S. National Security Agency’s (NSA) spying on hundreds of millions of its citizens, as revealed by whistle-blower and former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. Now it appears that the…

  • A Canada Without Compassion: A Modest Proposal from the Fraser Institute

    The Fraser Institute would like to remove compassion from the policy debate about poverty in Canada. Why? Because, according to the author of this report, Christopher Sarlo, compassion is causing us to confuse those who have lower income with those who do not have enough income to sustain life. For Sarlo,…

  • The importance of community health centres in BC’s primary care reforms

    What the research tells us Download 281.3 KB9 pages As British Columbia moves to support a role for community health centres (CHCs) within a larger agenda for reforming primary care, this piece explores what we can learn from other jurisdictions where CHCs are integrated into the broader primary care system, and…

  • Inside job: How BC Hydro customers wound up bankrolling private power companies

    The chickens have finally come home to roost on the previous BC government’s private power giveaway. The just-released provincial report by Ken Davidson on the costs of BC Hydro’s power purchases is a damning indictment of its electricity policies—policies whose exorbitant and wholly unnecessary costs will saddle BC ratepayers with…

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    Eight reasons the Site C dam is not needed: My testimony to BC Utilities Commission

    Last week, I appeared before the BC Utilities Commission (BCUC) at their Technical Presentation Session in Vancouver, and gave a brief presentation about my findings relating to the economics of the proposed Site C dam. Here’s what I had to say: Thank you to the Commission for the invitation to…

  • Growing Gap

    Hudak’s 100,000 jobs demolition plan: more extreme than the Harris years

    Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak’s campaign pledge to demolish 100,000 public sector jobs makes his mentor – former Premier Mike Harris – look like a lightweight.  Between 1995 and 2002, Harris cut about 7,000 public sector jobs, thrusting the province into a period of labour turmoil and eroding public services.…

  • New pipelines not needed if federal and provincial governments serious about climate commitments: earth scientist

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (OTTAWA) A new study by veteran earth scientist David Hughes finds that Canada cannot meet its global climate commitments while at the same time ramping up oil and gas extraction and building new export pipelines. Hughes calculates that if oil sands production grows…

  • Fast Facts: A Comparison of the Carbon Tax Rebates to Families in Manitoba and British Columbia 2017

    When British Columbia introduced its carbon tax, it provided a rebate to families to offset the higher cost of goods and services created by that tax.  It was designed as a refundable tax credit that diminished in value as family income increased.  As of 2017, the program provided a maximum…