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  • 28 years of waiting for safer construction sites

    Anniversary of Bentall Tower deaths highlights need for worker involvement in safety management Twenty-eight years ago today, four construction workers plunged to their deaths when the flyform panel they were working on fell from the 36th floor of the Bentall Tower IV in downtown Vancouver. Every year, construction workers, industry…

  • Softwood Lumber Agreement rebates not invested in BC

    BC companies spend more than US$620 million on US sawmills while local forestry communities founder: study CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT VICTORIA — In just two years, the Softwood Lumber Agreement has cost BC’s forest industry more than half a billion dollars in new export taxes and led…

  • Federal deficits could be much larger than anticipated, says Alternative Federal Budget

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA — While it is now generally acknowledged that the federal government is headed for deficit in the coming years, a report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) says those deficits could be much larger than are currently anticipated.…

  • Surplus should be reinvested in people and communities

    CCPA outlines budget choices in 2005 BC Solutions Budget CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says the priority for this year’s provincial budget should be reinvestment in people and communities. “The government is set to finish the year with a record surplus…

  • November 2005: Cancer—The Price of Progress

    Industrial pollution cancer just another cost of doing business My concern about the rising incidence of cancer prompted me to start writing a book in the 1950s that I titled Cancer: The Price of Progress. Even then, half a century ago, it was clear to me that most cancers were…

  • October 2008: We’re the Major Supplier of Uranium for Nuclear Weapons

    Canada is violating the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty An Interview with Professor Jim Harding While the U.S. appears to be on the verge of attacking Iran just for having a nuclear reactor, Washington and its allies continue to be the biggest nuclear proliferators in the world. Chief among these nuclear allies…

  • Economic Security Project (BC)

    Living wage shows real cost of raising a family

    Would lift thousands out of poverty, share prosperity of BC’s economy READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. (Vancouver) A new study calls on major public and private sector employers to pay a living wage that would lift low-income families out of poverty and severe financial stress. A living wage allows lower-income…

  • July 2008: An Interview with Dr. Maria Paez Victor

    South Americans defy U.S. to integrate their economies While European and North American governments wallow in right-wing militarism, Latin American states are leading the world in implementing progressive social change. They are doing this not just within countries, but also on a continental level now that 10 left-wing Latin American…

  • Bill 102 Presentation to the Queen’s Park Standing Committee on Social Policy

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  • Growing Gap

    Wealth, income inequality rising: Study

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT TORONTO – Canada’s inequality in wealth and income is growing, and at a more rapid pace than before, says a new study released by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). The study, by economist Lars Osberg, looks at 25 years of income…

  • Economic Security Project (BC)

    Ground-breaking study follows BC welfare recipients for two years

    Reveals welfare rules and rates cause disturbing harm to most vulnerable CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) A ground-breaking study that for two years followed British Columbians living on welfare paints a disturbing picture of how people are forced to make ends meet under new welfare rules and…

  • April 2008: First Nations Fight to Protect Their Land

    Algonquins and settler allies block proposed uranium mining A mining exploration company’s government-supported attempt to drill for uranium on First Nations land is finally beginning to create outrage far beyond the quiet corner of Eastern Ontario where it began over a year ago. On February 15, a Kingston judge’s draconian…