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Who’s the boss? “The Elf on the Shelf” and the normalization of surveillance
Are we using play to prepare children to accept increasingly intrusive surveillance?
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State of the Inner-City Report: We’re in it for the long haul
Defining the focus of the 6th State of the Inner City Report unfolded as it does every year. We began the process by meeting with representatives from various organizations working in the inner city. Some of our partners have participated in the State of the Inner City since we began…
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Burning our way to a new climate?
As UK’s Drax makes play for BC’s wood pellet mills, questions grow about wood-fired electricity With its six massive 660-megawatt power units, the Drax power station in North Yorkshire is the United Kingdom’s largest thermal electricity plant. When it opened in the mid 1970s, the giant facility burned coal. Today,…
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Canadian investor-state lawsuits disproportionately target environmental policy in developing nations: study
OTTAWA—Canadian investors disproportionately target environmental policy in developing nations when they file investor-state lawsuits outside North America, according to new analysis released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). Environmental policy is the fastest growing trigger for such investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) cases. “Canadian multinational corporations, especially in…
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Now is the time for BC to double down on commitment to $10-a-day child care
A year into the pandemic, there is a near-universal realization across Canada that the recovery must include large-scale public investments to build a quality, affordable child care system. This would enable parents with young children, in particular mothers, to return to work or pursue educational opportunities to support children’s healthy…
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About Fracking Time: BC’s Independent MLAs Call on Premier to Investigate Hydraulic Fracturing
As British Columbia Premier Christy Clark makes her debut in the provincial legislature this coming week, the media spotlight will likely be on the predictable verbal sparring between her and Adrian Dix, the NDP’s recently minted leader, over Clark’s alleged “fix” of the Harmonized Sales Tax. Meaning that Independent MLAs…
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The Monitor, December 2014/January 2015
Download 1.94 MB Click the download button above to download this issue of The Monitor or click to read a selection of articles below: From Citizenfour to Citizensmany? The world needs more Snowdens., by Andrew Clement Physician-assisted suicide: It’s time to reform the law, by Arthur Schafer Public interest law and…
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A generation of broken promises: 1 in 5 of Nova Scotia’s children live in poverty
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT Halifax—This 25th anniversary of the House of Commons pledge to end child poverty is a shameful one in Nova Scotia, and indeed Canada. Not only have we broken the promise to end child poverty for the children who were living it in 1989,…
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2014 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia
A Generation of Broken Promises Download 776.77 KB26 pages Since 1999, Nova Scotia Child Poverty Report Cards have recorded changes in child poverty rates to track progress on the House of Commons’ 1989 pledge to end child poverty by the year 2000. This 25th anniversary of the pledge must be a…
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It’s time to seriously tackle child poverty
One in five BC children lives in poverty. This is the sobering finding of the 2014 BC Child Poverty Report Card released on November 24th, the 25th anniversary of a unanimous all-party resolution in Canada’s House of Commons to end child poverty in Canada by the year 2000. Child poverty…
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Safeguarding our Parliament
The following editorial will appear in the November issue of the Monitor. The CCPA’s National Office is in downtown Ottawa, about ten blocks from Parliament Hill. On October 22, we were just putting the Monitor to bed, an editorial on the federal government’s anticipated surplus nearly finished, when at about 9:50 a.m. Twitter…
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How clean is a BC that subsidizes accelerated fossil fuel extraction?
When the provincial government unveiled its new climate plan late last year, Environment Minister George Heyman, Green Party leader Andrew Weaver and Premier John Horgan presented a happy, united front as ceremonies got underway at Vancouver’s main library. But the biggest smiles of the day may have been on the…
