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  • How Doctors are Paid in BC

      [A version of this piece was posted on the Tyee] Health care is the biggest, most expensive and most important thing that government does. Hospital care swallows up a large proportion of the health care budget, but primary care in the community takes care of most patient needs and…

  • Work Life: The Unbearable Resilience of P3’s.

    On March 6, 2017, the Winnipeg Free Press reported that the Manitoba government was examining Saskatchewan’s experience with using Public Private Partnerships (P3s) to build new public schools. The Saskatchewan government claims that it will save $100m dollars by using P3s, although it was not explained how it arrived at…

  • BC Budget 2017: $600 million in tax breaks for business

    Does the BC business sector need a tax cut? Not so much. But Budget 2017 promises to give business over $600 million in additional annual tax breaks nonetheless. That’s more than half a billion dollars annually that won’t be invested in creating affordable high-quality child care spaces, building affordable housing…

  • 5.2 million reasons the fossil fuel industry has the BC government’s ear

    The problem of corporate influence in politics and government is heating up in BC as we head towards the May election. 2017 kicked off with an explosive story in the New York Times, aptly titled “British Columbia: The Wild West of Canadian Political Cash.” The story drew widespread attention to…

  • Corporate Mapping Project

    $5.2 million in political donations and more than 22,000 lobbying contacts

    Study reveals scale of influence by fossil fuel industry on BC government, public officials READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. VANCOUVER – A new study finds the policy alignment between BC’s provincial government and the fossil fuel industry may be explained, at least in part, by extensive donations to political parties…

  • Resource Economics Project (BC)

    Province needs to focus on value-added forestry rather than LNG pipedream

    With the BC government’s promise of tens of thousands of jobs in a new liquefied natural gas industry in tatters, the province’s long-neglected forest industry has the potential to help close the widening employment gap between heavily populated areas like the Lower Mainland and the rest of the province.  The…

  • Poverty Reduction in Alberta

    Here are 10 things to know: Since taking office in 2015, the NDP government of Premier Notley has undertaken important steps that will almost certainly reduce poverty. These include the implementation of the Alberta Child Benefit (which will lift approximately 19,000 households out of poverty), substantial increases in funding for…

  • The rise and fall of climate action in BC

    It was a decade ago, in the February 13, 2007 Speech from the Throne, when the BC government launched into a frenzy of climate action never before seen in the province. Almost all of the BC government’s current “climate leadership” claims – so heavily promoted in a pre-election advertising spree…

  • Climate Justice Project
    Corporate Mapping Project

    Extracted Carbon

    Re-examining Canada’s contribution to climate change through fossil fuel exports Download 2.8 MB 34 pages This study re-examines Canada’s contribution to global climate change in light of the Paris Agreement by looking at extracted carbon—the total amount of fossil fuels removed from Canadian soil that ends up in the atmosphere—whether…

  • Corporate Mapping Project

    Canada responsible for ballooning greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel exports: new study

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA—The amount of fossil fuel removed from Canadian soil that ends up in the atmosphere as harmful carbon dioxide has risen dramatically, almost exclusively because of our country’s growing fossil fuel exports, finds a new Corporate Mapping Project study published by the Canadian Centre for…

  • Work Life: For the Care We All Deserve

    Building Better Long-Term Care in Manitoba The long-term care (LTC) sector in Manitoba is facing serious challenges. Manitoba, like the rest of Canada, is faced with an aging population, increasing the demands on the LTC system and the need for funding. According to Statistics Canada, over the past ten years…

  • Kinder Morgan’s pipeline sales pitch: Too good to be true?

    After the federal approval of Kinder-Morgan’s controversial Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion (TMX), Alberta Premier Rachel Notley came to BC to sell the pipeline’s economic benefits. She claims BC will get a $1 billion per year boost in GDP as a result of the pipeline, as well as thousands of jobs…