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  • 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…

  • Chronic fishery mismanagement Confederation’s dismal failure

    It has been called “managed annihilation,” “Confederation’s greatest failure,” “a national embarrassment, a national shame.” The demise of the cod fishery off Newfoundland and Labrador two decades ago is now legendary as an environmental and economic disaster. Over 19,000 fishers and plant workers laid off indefinitely, another 20,000 jobs directly…

  • Parliament no longer the place to fight for a just society

    My interest in federal politics is rapidly declining. From now on, I’ll be paying little or no attention to parliamentary antics for the next four years. Under Canada’s grotesquely undemocratic electoral system, a hard-right ideological party winning much less than half the votes has been given virtually absolute power until…

  • BC’s child poverty rate: Don’t cherry-pick the numbers

    It’s always welcome to see poverty identified as an important issue in our elections as it was in last Wednesday’s BC Leaders’ Debate. We want to see our political leaders challenging each other to do better on this file. However, in the debate—as well as in numerous media interviews—Premier Clark…

  • Spending What It Takes: Transformational climate investments for long-term prosperity in Canada

    The world is confronted with a slew of accelerating and converging crises, from climate change and biodiversity loss to energy insecurity, unaffordable living and rising inequality. In the face of these challenges, Canada must urgently and equitably decarbonize every sector of the economy both to contribute our fair share of…

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    Fast Facts: Public housing plays an essential role in Manitoba’s housing system

    Public housing plays an essential role in Manitoba’s housing system. It provides a specific form of housing: housing that has been removed from the market by focusing on its use as a home, rather than on its potential for financial gain, in order to make it affordable to low-income households.…

  • Labour Matters

    Work Life: New report finds Manitoba workers more impacted by COVID than nationally

    Last month over 100,000 workers in the United States engaged in some level of strike activity, either preparing to strike or actually joining picket lines. Meanwhile, record numbers of mostly low-wage US workers are quitting their jobs, rejecting poor pay, hours, and working conditions by seeking job opportunities elsewhere. Some…

  • Outlook Darkens as Budget Debate Begins

    Allow me to indulge myself just this once.  Almost exactly one month ago I wrote a post on the Progressive Economics blog  arguing that the Bank of Canada was being too optimistic about our economic prospects in the July Monetary Policy Report . Last Friday, both the Governor of the Bank of…

  • Resigning ourselves to robocalls

    The “reformed” Fair Elections Act compromises Canadian democracy Voter turnout in recent federal elections is historically low and appears to be declining. A “compromise” Fair Elections Act—reviled by most experts, revised by parliamentary committee, passed at third reading in the House of Commons, now with the Senate—will surely worsen this…

  • How one company’s “value-added” plans are opening the door to more log exports and fewer forest industry jobs

    Second of Two Parts For many years, TimberWest has exported more raw logs from British Columbia than all of its competitors save one. And a new move afoot by the company has both forest industry workers and environmental activists convinced that the company is laying the groundwork for even more…

  • BC’s publicly funded legal aid is in crisis

    Imagine you are a woman who recently left your husband because he was assaulting you. Without a lawyer, fighting for the custody of your two children requires you to cross-examine your ex-husband in court about the sexual and physical abuse you experienced in your relationship with him. Unless your net…

  • Prairie Update: Doing Austerity in Saskatchewan and Manitoba

    In the Fall 2016 Monitor, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives  (CCPA)Saskatchewan’s Simon Enoch penned Getting to Know Brad, introducing Canada’s most popular premier – Brad Wall – to the country. He ran down Wall’s list of “accomplishments”. What made Simon’s analysis so interesting (and at the same time, disheartening) was…