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  • Who’s left out? COVID-19 & psychiatric detainees

    For weeks, we’ve all been doing our best to follow guidelines about staying home and physical distancing to prevent the spread of COVID-19. But who is left out of those public health protections? What happens when laws or policies impair the ability of people to make their own decisions and…

  • CCPA submission to BC consultation on forest tenures

    Earlier today, I submitted the following on behalf of the CCPA to Mr Jim Snetsinger, who is leading a consultation on area-based forest tenures on behalf of the BC government (FYI, the deadline for input into this consultation is Friday May 30, and submissions can be made via email to:…

  • September 2007: Editorial

    Conformity and dissent Those of us who have the courage to challenge the conventional “wisdom”–which today takes the form of neoliberalism–will sometimes find the path of dissent to be a rocky one. We face ridicule, scorn, hostility. We may be socially ostracized. We may even find that our beliefs hinder…

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    New protections for BC platform workers entrench racism

    In November 2023, the BC Ministry of Labour announced new employment standards that claim to “bring fairness” to the estimated 40,000 ride-hail and food-delivery workers in BC. The move comes after a year of public engagement with platform workers, platform companies and labour experts, which brought to the fore the…

  • Farewell

    Editor of CCPA Monitor since its inception says good-bye This is the last page 4 column I’ll write as editor of the CCPA Monitor, so I suppose it’s fitting that it take the form of a farewell. I was asked to serve as editor of the Monitor when it was…

  • Farewell

    Editor of CCPA Monitor since its inception says good-bye This is the last page 4 column I’ll write as editor of the CCPA Monitor, so I suppose it’s fitting that it take the form of a farewell. I was asked to serve as editor of the Monitor when it was…

  • Impact Research

  • How Proportional Representation could help to decentralize power and strengthen Parliament

    Submission to the House of Commons Special Committee on Electoral Reform The debate around electoral reform has largely neglected a central question: what would a change in the electoral system mean for Canada’s constitutional separation of powers? To state the matter briefly, our Westminster system has an inherent tendency toward…

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  • Saskatchewan government speaks in riddles when it comes to treaty rights

    Despite celebrations of treaties, Saskatchewan doesn't do much to respect them. With prairie separatism on the rise, that's a real problem.

    The Saskatchewan government loves to celebrate treaties. 

  • Property tax reform can address economic and housing inequality in BC, new research

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. VANCOUVER–The explosion of housing prices has become a massive source of inequality in BC, which can be addressed with progressive property tax reform, new research from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, BC Office shows. As home prices and rents have risen dramatically amid a…

  • CETA: A significant shift from democratic governance

    Imagine a far-off dystopia when foreign corporations are given the same status as citizens in public hearings. When the overriding priority for government in issuing licenses for fracking, pipeline and other projects is to make the process simple for corporations. When, regardless of how much a project is opposed by…