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  • Tax cuts would come back to bite BC

    In the BC election, significant tax cuts were put on the table by both the BC Conservatives and BC NDP in their policy platforms. While they were framed as a way of easing pressures on the cost of living, tax cuts would do little to address the structural problems underlying…

  • Nearly $400 million in public funds flowed to for-profit surgical and diagnostic clinics in BC over the last six years, new research reveals

    Surgical centres engaged in unlawful extra-billing among those who benefited from government outsourcing READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. (Vancouver) Health authority contracts with for-profit surgical and diagnostic imaging clinics topped $393 million between 2015/16 and 2020/21 – with total annual payments increasing by 57 per cent over that period. That’s…

  • Fast Facts: Valuing the Voice of People Living with Disabilities in Manitoba

    Recently the Manitoba Government made a decision to reject a core funding application from the Manitoba League of Persons with Disabilities (MLPD) for the 2018-19 fiscal year. It can be very difficult for an organization to function without core funding which diminishes its capacity. The organization (formally known as the…

  • Les opposants au salaire minimum font fausse route

    tous profiteront de l’augmentation Récemment, le Sun de Brandon publiait un article et deux éditoriaux en réaction à l’annonce de la ministre du Travail et de l’Immigration, Mme Jennifer Howard, qui nous apprenait que le salaire minimum augmenterait de 50 cents l’heure le 1er octobre 2010. Toutefois, mis à part…

  • October 2004: Exposing and Opposing Corporate Power

    Regardless of the outcome, the cause itself is worth the struggle My first brush with corporate power happened a long  time ago, when I was editor of the daily newspaper The Western Star in Corner Brook, Newfoundland. Corner Brook was—still is—a paper mill town. At the time, the mill was…

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    Dismantling tent cities—why choice matters

    [perfectpullquote align=”full” bordertop=”false” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]“When you live on the street long enough, eventually you stop believing in choices. Where you eat, sleep and even socialize is decided for you.”– Kris Cronk, Megaphone Speakers’ Bureau Facilitator and Vendor.[1][/perfectpullquote] On April 25, 2020 the BC government announced a plan…

  • Why teachers are still striking

    Speech to the Langley Teachers Association’s Public Forum on Education Check against delivery. I have a slightly different take because I don’t come from the labour movement or from the education sector – I come as an economist, so I’m going to talk a little bit about numbers. But before…

  • Connecting Communities

    Strengthening public transportation options in rural Manitoba

    This paper includes an exploration of the positive outcomes of inter-community transportation demonstrated in Manitoba and in other jurisdictions; an overview of current Manitoba provincial policy, programs, and regulatory structures relating to inter-community transportation; case studies from Ontario and Nova Scotia; and the findings from a public consultation with rural…

  • Calculating a Living Wage for Perth and Huron Counties

    Download 816.2 KB 34 pages The Social Research Planning Council, a Divison of United Way Perth-Huron, collaborated with the CCPA-ON to produce this report detailing the living wage calculations for the Perth-Huron region of Ontario. This report builds on the previous living wage work published by the CCPA and the…

  • Conservative cuts really just a “spending moratorium”

    The Tale of the Kluane Lake Research Station When is a cut not a cut? According to the Conservative Government, when it’s a “spending moratorium.” As Robert Service once rhymed, “There are strange things done ‘neath the midnight sun.” This is a tale of an important research station, a government…

  • Child care also an austerity victim

    Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press August 29, 2023 Manitoba billboards promoting $10/day childcare create the perception that the Province of Manitoba has increased funding and support for childcare. The reality is quite different. Despite provincial ELCC spending being higher than it was in 2016, federal funding accounts for…

  • An unauthorized Progress Energy dam where millions of gallons of freshwater was found impounded in early April. It is among “dozens" of unpermitted dams spread across northern BC, a CCPA investigation has found.

    A Dam Big Problem: Regulatory breakdown as fracking companies in BC’s northeast build dozens of unauthorized dams

    A subsidiary of Petronas, the Malaysian state-owned petro giant courted by the BC government, has built at least 16 unauthorized dams in northern BC to trap hundreds of millions of gallons of water used in its controversial fracking operations. The 16 dams are among “dozens” that have been built by…