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  • The Tobin Tax

    The case for a tax on international monetary transactions This article is based on a speech delivered in 1995 at a CCPA conference in Ottawa by U.S. economist James Tobin, who died in 2002 at the age of 84. A prominent supporter of Keynesian economics and winner of the Nobel…

  • New BC Auditor General report finds public private partnerships double the cost of borrowing

    British Columbia’s new Auditor General, Carol Bellringer, published her annual report on government’s 2013-14 summary financial statements today and it contains some pretty interesting highlights. First of all, and for the first time, the AG has published a comparison of how much it costs the government to undertake projects on…

  • A BC framework for LNG, part two: the LNG income tax

    Well, we saw this coming but it’s still sobering to see it in black and white. The BC government’s decision to cut its proposed LNG Income Tax in half (from 7% to 3.5%) is simply a cave in to industry. It’s massive giveaway of a public resource to global corporations by…

  • Ontario Alternative Budget

    Commentary on the Eves mock budget

    Eves Promised Vox Populi; Delivered Magna Vox There’s only one real message in Ernie Eves’ faux budget, released to an intimate group of friends in Brampton today. These guys only know how to do one thing — cut taxes. They cut taxes when they’re running a deficit. They cut taxes…

  • Should you care who owns the Toronto Stock Exchange?

    So maybe you didn’t lose a night’s sleep when the TMX group, the owner of the Toronto Stock Exchange, announced plans to merge with the London Stock Exchange Group. But the ownership of Canada’s biggest stock exchange might be a wake-up call. The stock market is sort of like the…

  • June 2006: Health Canada Delay Endangers Women

    Agency to regulate Human Reproduction Act still not set up March 29, 2006 was the second anniversary of the passage into law of Canada’s Assisted Human Reproduction (AHR) Act, an Act marking the culmination of years of hard work by many thoughtful Canadians of diverse perspectives. What should have been…

  • OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

    Create BC jobs by investing in desperately needed services

    A few months ago, economist and CCPA research associate Jim Stanford gave a talk in Vancouver based on his newest book, Economics for Everyone: A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism. Of the many important insights that he discussed, perhaps the most significant concerned a problem that has afflicted…

  • Injured workers with chronic pain: the serious human costs of the WorkSafeBC system

    I have been a specialist in physical medicine and rehabilitation for over 30 years. A significant portion of my practice involves injured workers who have developed chronic pain and have been denied compensation by WorkSafeBC (WCB). Workers with injuries that heal in weeks or a few months are usually treated…

  • Is the BC government a climate outlaw?

    BC government: climate leader or climate outlaw?

    At both the Paris climate negotiations last November and the recent federal-provincial climate meetings, Premier Christy Clark was keen to position British Columbia as a climate leader. There may indeed have been a short window during the 2008-2010 period when BC could legitimately (albeit arguably) make such a claim; when…

  • Temporary foreign workers need more rights, not better enforcement of flawed policy

    On June 20, Minister of Employment and Social Development Jason Kenney announced a raft of changes to the federal Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP), including a moratorium (now lifted) on the hiring of temporary foreign workers (TFWs) in the food services sector. The TFWP program has attracted controversy since at…

  • Growing Gap

    Canada’s best-paid CEOs ‘recession-proof’: Study

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. TORONTO – Canada’s best-paid 100 CEOs breezed through the worst of the recession with earnings 155 times higher than the average Canadian income earner, says a new study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). The study, Recession-Proof, looks at 2009 compensation levels for…

  • 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…