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  • Prairie Commons in Crisis

    Beneficial Community Pasture Program killed by Bill C-38 With the widespread damage to environmental protection inflicted by the federal government’s omnibus Bill C-38, it was easy to miss the fate of more than a million acres of humble prairie grasslands. These grasslands provide habitat for endangered prairie species and provide…

  • Climate change: Joe Oliver deems fears “exaggerated”

    Federal Natural Resource minister Joe Oliver stopped by Montréal on 11 April to promote tar sands and closed the door to any strict greenhouse-gas ceiling. He claimed that, according to scientists, our fears regarding climate change are “exaggerated.” He refused to retract his statement the following week before the federal natural resources…

  • Seniors Care

    Seniors Fact Sheet: Housing

    <Click here to download this fact sheet (PDF)> Affordable Housing Options for Seniors Living in BC Introduction BC’s provincial government has said it is committed to ensuring seniors can remain in their homes and “age in place.” Yet, the lack of adequate and affordable housing in BC means many seniors…

  • Repaying debt might not be best use of offshore money

    As announced on Sunday, July 11, Nova Scotians are finally going to benefit from the good fortune of having fossil fuels not far from our shores. The offshore deal was signed in 1986, and revenues are expected to continue to be paid out for another 15 years. Over nearly 40…

  • Closing the Loop: Zero Waste, GHG Emissions and Green Jobs in BC

    Below is the summary for our latest Climate Justice Project report, Closing the Loop: Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Creating Green Jobs through Zero Waste in BC (I recommend checking the much prettier full paper, stand-alone summary, and awesome infographic by Sam Bradd on the website). Closing the Loop was a complex and challenging…

  • Seniors Care

    Seniors Fact Sheet: Health Care

    <Click here to download this fact sheet in English (PDF)> <Haga clic aquí para ver la versión española (PDF)> <Click here to download this fact sheet in Chinese (PDF)> Caring for BC’s aging population: Improving health care for all   Introduction British Columbia’s seniors population is growing. How we can…

  • RIP Clyde Hertzman

    As many of you have likely heard, late last week we at the CCPA lost a great friend, and Canada lost one of its greatest advocates for children: See here and here. The sudden and untimely passing of Clyde Hertzman comes as a terrible shock. Clyde was the life partner…

  • Atlantic Canada’s story of inequality

    Statistics Canada released new data yesterday on high income trends in Canada with nary a mention of the Atlantic Provinces. From a Canadian comparative perspective, the data told a story that was more striking for most of the rest of the country and in particular, Alberta, Ontario, BC and Quebec where 92%…

  • New study: Big SK corporations positioned to influence government

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT Regina — A new study from the Saskatchewan Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives shows that corporate leaders in Saskatchewan are positioned to play a major role in shaping public policy in the province, and recommends that Saskatchewan create a lobbyist…

  • British Columbians are ready for a thoughtful conversation about taxes

    Debates about taxes in BC can be as much a blood-sport as politics. But a major new opinion poll conducted by Environics Research (commissioned by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives) offers some surprising insights into what people of different political stripes think about taxes, inequality and public services. It…

  • British Columbians are ready for a thoughtful conversation about taxes, inequality, public services

    An oped in today’s Vancouver Sun, outlining key lessons from CCPA opinion research released last week: Beyond the 1%: What British Columbians think about taxes, inequality and public services. British Columbians ready for a thoughtful talk about taxes A growing consensus that extreme inequality is as much an economic problem…

  • May 2008: The Truth About the Drug Companies

    Big Pharma’s R&D excuse for steep prices is unfounded The pharmaceutical industry is dominated by just 10 to 20 giant companies–roughly half European and half American–although they are really global in their reach. They all do business in much the same way, and often act more like an oligopoly than…