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  • Expansive aerial view of a pit mining project in Alberta's Oilsands near Fort McMurray.
    Corporate Mapping Project

    New report shines light on the state of fossil fuel industry in Eastern Canada – an overlooked region in energy transition debates

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT [HALIFAX/ Kjipuktuk, June 6, 2023] – Despite Eastern Canada being highly invested in oil and gas production, the region is often left out of energy policy discussions typically focused on Western provinces. A new report maps the extensive existing and proposed fossil fuel exploration,…

  • Oil train
    Corporate Mapping Project

    Un nouveau rapport met en lumière l’état de l’industrie des combustibles fossiles dans l’Est du Canada – une région négligée dans les débats sur les politiques énergétiques

    CLIQUEZ ICI POUR CONSULTER LE RAPPORT [HALIFAX/ Kjipuktuk, 6 juin 2023]:  Bien que l’Est du Canada soit fortement investi dans la production pétrolière et gazière, cette région est souvent omise des discussions sur la politique énergétique, qui s’axe surtout sur les provinces de l’Ouest. Un nouveau rapport fait l’état des lieux…

  • 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…

  • BC Child Poverty Rate Climbs as Income Inequality Grows

    Thirty-five years after Canada’s parliament promised to end child poverty it still hasn’t happened. In 1989, a unanimous all-party House of Commons resolution was passed vowing to end child poverty in Canada by the year 2000. Yet child poverty in British Columbia and across the country is on the rise…

  • Out-of-control rents

    Rental wages in Canada, 2023

    CMHC, “Rental Market Survey Data Tables,” 2023. For a notable exception, see John Rapley, “Canada’s approach to housing is bad for the economy,” The Globe and Mail, July 14, 2023. David Macdonald, “Unaccommodating: Rental Housing Wage in Canada” (Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2018), policyalternatives.ca/unaccommodating. David Macdonald and Ricardo…

  • The Attack on Organics

    Anti-organics study funded by Cargill and other corporations Food issues have been much in the news recently, but I want to focus on what can only be called an attempt to trash organic food and organic farming – an attempt that, as we shall see, fits into a larger agenda.…

  • Petronas’ Pacific NorthWest LNG: Profile of a Carbon Bomb

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  • Petronas’ Pacific NorthWest LNG: profile of a carbon bomb

    I submitted the following in response to a call by the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency for public comments on the February 2016 draft environmental assessment of the Pacific NorthWest LNG, also commonly known as the Petronas LNG project given the lead corporate proponent. (You can make a submission too). This submission is in regards…

  • Prime Minister Trudeau face closed up and off centered to the left, with half his face showing. Blackandwhite

    The Trudeau Record: Promise v. Performance

    The record of what has been done–and what hasn’t–will surprise even well-informed readers. The book is on shelves now. Readers should check out their local bookshop to find a copy—and ask that the shop order some if they haven’t done so already. They can also order copies at local libraries…

  • The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion was an expensive mistake

    Presentation to the House of Commons Natural Resources Committee by CCPA British Columbia researcher Marc Lee

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  • Genetically modified corn trade fight heats up in Mexico

    Much-watched CUSMA case raises public morals and environmental justifications for Mexican food measures—and first-of-its-kind Indigenous Peoples’ defence

    Key dates in the GM corn dispute Dec. 31, 2020: Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (commonly referred to as AMLO) announces in a decree that his government will take measures to end the cultivation and import of genetically engineered (GE) corn and ban the controversial herbicide glyphosate by January…

  • Capital gains tax increase is a step towards a fairer tax system in Canada

    Presentation to the House of Commons Finance Committee by CCPA British Columbia researcher Marc Lee

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