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  • New Brunswick Tax Reform – ineffective, regressive and unsustainable

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT The government’s tax reform package is based on the belief that income tax cuts have the power to provide a strong stimulus to the provincial economy, and thus are considered self-financing. “Not only is there little to no empirical evidence to support this…

  • The Latin American Revolution (Part IX)

    Argentina was rescued from neoliberalism by Néstor Kirchner At the end of October, Argentina lost its economic saviour who made the country part of the Latin American Revolution. Néstor Kirchner, former President of Argentina and husband of the current President, Cristina Fernandez-Kirchner, died on October 27 from a heart attack.…

  • Climate Justice Project

    Every bite counts: Government must set menu for BC’s food system in face of climate change

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) A new report is calling on the BC government to take action to make BC’s food system work better for farmers, eliminate hunger, shift away from imported products, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The report, Every Bite Counts: Climate Justice and BC’s…

  • Poorly designed third party advertising rules chilled election debate, reduced voter access to information: Study

    (Vancouver) A new study finds that BC’s third party advertising rules caused extensive problems for “small spenders” such as non-profits and charities during the 2009 provincial election. The rules – brought in through the controversial Bill 42 in 2008 – led to widespread confusion, wasted resources, anxiety and self-censorship among…

  • Climate Justice Project

    So What’s a Green Job, Anyway?

    Today the CCPA released a new report by myself and Ken Carlaw, an economist at UBC-Okanagan, that looks at industrial and employment strategies the BC government can use to transition to a sustainable economy and create a new generation of well-paying green jobs. We started with an ecological economics perspective…

  • La privatisation : le cheval de Troie des services publics

    Une des principales dynamiques de notre époque est la pression exercée sur les gouvernements pour offrir plus de services publics en utilisant moins de ressources. La population vieillit, l’infrastructure urbaine se détériore et, avec l’immigration et la mondialisation croissantes du commerce, tous les paliers de gouvernement font face à une…

  • May 2007: Pharmaceutical Secrecy Endangers Our Health

    Drug research now done mainly to protect profits, not public health Secrecy has always been the norm in the pharmaceutical arena, but over the past decade it has taken on even greater significance as the funding of medical research has swung from something that was done to improve public health…

  • The Latin American Revolution (Part VIII)

    Nicaragua benefits from joining Latin American Revolution In July 2009, Nicaragua celebrated 30 years of the Sandinista Revolution led by the socialist Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN). In July 1979, the revolution ended 70 years of brutal U.S.-imposed dictatorship. Since 2006, the Sandinistas have been back in power in Nicaragua,…

  • 75th Annual Commemorative 2009 Calendar

    The Regina Manifesto and the Birth of Social Democracy in Canada Download 468.25 KB14 pages One of the proudest and most significant achievements in Canadian history was the creation of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) in 1933. This year (2008) marks the 75th anniversary of this memorable event, when unions,…

  • Research for Communities: Inner-City Refugee Women

    Lessons for Public Policy Download 939.86 KB4 pages Attachments Research for Communities: Inner-City Refugee Women: Lessons for Public Policy

  • Climate Justice Project

    Fossil fuel peddling impedes BC’s progress toward a green future

    Based primarily on the creation of a carbon tax two years ago, the BC government has been propelled into the position of North American climate action leader. While there was much to applaud as first steps on climate action in BC’s 2008 “green” budget, two years later there remain some…

  • Commodity-driven economic boost masks growing BC regional divide

    (Vancouver) Provincial taxation and spending policies have worsened the gap between BC’s two economies — the diversified Lower Mainland and Victoria areas, and the more resource-dependent ‘hinterland’ regions. Soutwestern BC received a skewed share of income tax cuts, while subsequent tax increases and spending cuts have hit harder in the…