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    “Alberta Next”, migrants’ rights come last

    The “Alberta Next” initiative, led by Premier Danielle Smith, represents a significant push toward greater provincial autonomy within Canada. Through town halls and surveys conducted throughout the province from July to the end of September, this project sought public input on crucial policy areas—including immigration and pensions—while asserting Alberta’s constitutional…

  • A Not-So-Crazy Conspiracy Theory

    If this crisis doesn’t discredit capitalism, what will? There’s this cartoon about two cows. The first cow has just figured out, to her horror and shock, how hamburgers are made.      “They only fatten us up,” she says, “so they can slaughter and eat us.”      The second cow scoffs…

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    The false hopes and empty promises of investment treaty modernization

    A Canadian company’s successful challenge to a precautionary mining ban in Colombia shows how little investor–state dispute panels care about the right to regulate.

    A Canadian company’s successful challenge to a precautionary mining ban in Colombia shows how little investor–state dispute panels care about the right to regulate.

  • Raising the bar: our recommendations for equitable gig work in BC

    Raising the bar: Our recommendations for equitable gig work in BC

    Platform companies like Uber, Lyft and Skip the Dishes derive profits at the expense of taxpayers’ contributions and workers’ health and safety. The BC government has a unique opportunity to set high standards for sustainable, responsible platform work and we are pleased to support the government’s deliberations on this issue.…

  • The sound of silence

    Weeks stretch to months, months to years as BC government clamps down on information  When debate on the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Amendment Act began last fall Stephanie Cadieux, then Liberal MLA for Surrey-Cloverdale, was among many to note how British Columbians are waiting longer and longer…

  • Canada’s GST tax holiday won’t do much for affordability

    If the feds were serious about affordability, there’s lots of other things they could be doing.

    The following article is based on speaking notes from a presentation which the author gave to the Senate Committee on National Finance. The video of the presentation is at the bottom of the page.

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    Getting to Net-Zero in Canada: Summary

    Scale of the problem, government projections and daunting challenges The urgency of mitigating climate change through significant emission reductions is globally recognized—most recently with the call to transition away from fossil fuels at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP28). Canada has long accepted…

  • The importance of community health centres in BC’s primary care reforms: What the research tells us

    Community health centres (CHCs) have been an effective but under-valued model for delivering primary health care1 for decades in Canada and the US. One of the unique features of the model is its strong focus on the social determinants of health and preventing acute illness among groups who are more likely to experience poor health and…

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    The federal government’s coming “red tape review” is bad news

    History shows us that”red tape reduction” ends up making us less safe

    At the beginning of July, Shafqat Ali, president of Canada’s Treasury Board, announced the launch of a “red tape review” of regulations across federal departments and agencies with regulatory responsibilities, with a reporting deadline of the beginning of September in advance of the federal budget.

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  • Tuition hike and the media between 2005 and 2010 in Québec

    I’ve contended for the last two years that between 2005 and 2010, an intensive public relations campaign was undertaken with the aim of increasing tuition fees in Québec. I believe it was crucial when the proposal to hike fees was formally submitted in Raymond Bachand’s first budget, the Liberal government’s…