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  • Fast Facts: Teenaged photojournalists document the inner city

    Sixteen youth from North and West End Winnipeg were given an important assignment: tell the stories of their neighbourhoods to the rest of Winnipeg. The results are insightful and compelling; the inner city is as beautiful as it is ugly, a place of play and a place of fear and…

  • Fast Facts: Cosmetic Pesticide Ban needs to continue

    Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press April 7, 2022 Geese flying overhead. A warm sun. Puddles. For a winter-weary Manitoba, Spring is finally making an appearance. This year, it cannot come soon enough. Many of us long for sounds of kids playing outside, strolls around the neighbourhood, picnics and…

  • Nova Scotia Budget Doesn’t Meet Current Challenges

    Halifax, NS – The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-NS is concerned that even more people will be left behind because of holes in our safety net that the Nova Scotia budget 2022-23 does not fix. As Christine Saulnier, Director of the CCPA-Nova Scotia says, “The government has the fiscal capacity…

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    The University of Victoria seeks to profit from climate change deniers and policy obstructionists: The Exxon connection

    The school year is now well under way. For many new students starting at the University of Victoria, the university’s stated commitments to sustainability were likely attractive, especially for BC residents whose summers were haunted by relentless wildfires. Given the needed move towards low-carbon economies it makes excellent sense for…

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    Eight reasons the Site C dam is not needed: My testimony to BC Utilities Commission

    Last week, I appeared before the BC Utilities Commission (BCUC) at their Technical Presentation Session in Vancouver, and gave a brief presentation about my findings relating to the economics of the proposed Site C dam. Here’s what I had to say: Thank you to the Commission for the invitation to…

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    BC LNG: Economic bonanza or environmental and economic nightmare?

    Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) has been embraced by British Columbia’s government as a budding engine of growth for the provincial economy. Claims by industry lobby groups of tens of thousands of jobs and billions in government revenue make headlines. Is it true there really is a free lunch? As a…

  • Labour Matters

    Work Life: Reversing the Damage

    How the Federal Liberals can restore hope on the prairies By 2013 the Conservative government had cut overall federal taxes and other revenues to the lowest rate seen in more than 70 years. Between 2011 and March 2015, 25,000 to 30,000 federal public sector positions were eliminated. Between 2010 and…

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    COVID-19 pandemic highlights the need for a living wage

    With the spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, news stories sounding the alarm over worker shortages are once again on the rise. And, like previous waves, these news stories are focused almost exclusively on workers in low-wage, precarious jobs. These jobs service large parts of the Canadian economy that…

  • The future of university divestment campaigns: Reflections from inside the movement

    To an outsider, university divestment campaigns might look like a hopeful but impractical social movement led by naive cadres of sign-waving students. The truth, however, is that divestment is more successful and has more transformative potential than what first appears. Largely hidden but tightly woven connections between universities, finance and…

  • Final farewell to the CCPA

    Dear friends, After 22 years as founding Director of the CCPA’s BC Office, this month marks the end of my employment with the CCPA. Given that, I wanted to share some farewell thoughts and thanks (in addition to those I wrote when I announced my departure plans last spring). Leaving…

  • A wealth tax on the super rich is within reach

    If anything is clear in this pandemic, Canada needs a wealth tax on the super rich to rein in extreme inequality and contribute to crucial public investments in the wake of COVID-19. A wealth tax is economically and technically feasible, but it requires breaking with a status quo that often…

  • Legislated Paid Sick Leave – A Historic Moment for Worker Rights

    The BC government will implement the right for all employees to have a minimum number of employer-paid sick days on January 1, 2022. BC will become just the third province in Canada to do so—and has an opportunity to make history by bringing in the strongest, most well-designed program in the country. Last…