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  • Economic Security Project (BC)

    A call to all BC political parties: time to commit to a poverty reduction plan

    In early February, over 200 organizations and community leaders from across BC issued an open letter to BC political parties, calling on them to commit – prior to the May election –– to a comprehensive poverty reduction plan, with legislated targets and timelines. We were among the signatories. The time…

  • A Challenge to Canada’s Wealthiest 0.1%

    This election presents an opportunity for you wealthy Canadians, especially the very richest 0.1% among you—the 25,000 Canadians with an average annual income of $1.5 million—to do the right thing and put the broader public good ahead of your own interests.  I know that this is asking a lot. Recent psychological…

  • Cynical Fears of a ‘Hidden Agenda’ Have Replaced Facts in Our Politics

    On the face of it, this election campaign has thus far largely been free of what one might call the language of a culture war. Stephen Harper has explicitly said a majority Conservative government would not open up the politics of abortion or same-sex rights. The opposition parties have learned…

  • Fast Facts: And now for some un-conventional wisdom…

    All the responses to the 2011/12 provincial budget in the April 13 Winnipeg Free Press speak with one voice that is critical of this year’s budget and the NDP government that tabled it. That so many well-known political pundits (Messrs. Craig, Martin, Brown and Kelcey) would speak with such commonality…

  • Economic Security Project (BC)

    The time is now for a legislated poverty reduction plan

    200 community organizations & leaders to BC political parties CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT On February 5, the CCPA’s BC Office joined with 200 other organizations from across the province as signatories to an open letter calling for a legislated poverty reduction plan. Together these groups launched a…

  • Putting the public interest first (Part 1)

    Corporations can and should be made socially responsible Corporations are different from other business entities because they attract capital investment by socializing a portion of shareholder risk. Investors are keenly aware that their investment returns are proportional to their investment risk, so their investment strategy aims at reducing risk while…

  • The utter stupidity of P3s in BC

    For the “we told you so” file. The BC government has been insisting on P3s (so-called “public-private partnerships” where the private sector builds and operates infrastructure) all over the province. We at the CCPA have consistently argued that this practice is foolish: more complicated, more expensive, and leaving taxpayers holding…

  • Family Values and Budget Cuts

    Once again, in the middle of summer, the anti-government government has unleashed more anti-policy policy via a compliant Statistics Canada. Who needs data when you’ve got family values? The Harper team knows what you need. (Hint: tax cuts. Oops! Not for you sister, if you’re a single mom.) The Globe and…

  • Treat water rights with the respect they deserve

    On Canada’s frequently drenched west coast, it is sometimes easy to forget that there are times and places where water is scarce. A case in point is northeast BC, where last year’s drought led to a five-metre drop in water levels at the Williston Reservoir, fields grazed by buffalo were reduced…

  • Resource Economics Project (BC)

    Expansion of industrial salmon farming likely to produce few or no new jobs in BC, new economic study shows

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT Vancouver–A new economic study shows that industrial salmon aquaculture will deliver no or few new jobs in BC, even if the industry doubles in size. What’s more, the industry produces relatively few jobs and minimal economic benefits to the provincial economy right now,…

  • Thanks to Wikileaks

    Myth of Canada’s non-involvement in Iraq war discredited “One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.” –Mark Twain, Vice-President, American Anti-Imperialist League. Thanks to a U.S. diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks, a small crack recently appeared in the…

  • Our Schools/Our Selves Summer 2003

    Private dollars in Canada’s “public” colleges and universities: Who really pays? This spring the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives released its annual guide to Canadian post-secondary education—a study comparing the provinces’ commitment to higher education and ranking them accordingly. This is the fourth year of Missing Pieces: An alternative guide…