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  • Climate Justice Project

    BC’s reforestation crisis

    In less than a decade, British Columbia has gone from environmental leader to environmental laggard in stewarding one of our most important natural resources. And it could not come at a worse time, as we grapple with climate change and its horrendous impact on our forests. In what was once…

  • The Great Divide: Fundraising is no solution to underresourced classrooms

    Recently, CBC analyzed two years’ worth of financial statements for seven schools in the Halifax area to determine the degree to which fundraising was playing a part in school finances. The results were instructive, pointing to a significant disparity in the amounts raised between schools. Volunteers at one school—in a…

  • U.S. and its Allies Foiled

    Russia, China, Iran defeat U.S. in the “pipeline wars” A major reason for the U.S.-led invasion and occupation of Afghanistan was the building of a pipeline through the country that would take natural gas from Turkmenistan to India and Pakistan. Canada and the other 44 Western countries occupying Afghanistan are…

  • Reforestation crisis, Ministry of Forests job cuts: op eds by the CCPA and allies

    The coalition of environmental groups and unions that published Managing BC’s Forests for a Cooler Planet in January continues to work together. Over the past week, we’ve had op eds published in the Victoria Times Colonist and the Vancouver Sun. George Heyman, executive director of Sierra Club BC, and I…

  • Growing Gap

    Canada’s Housing Bubble

    An Accident Waiting to Happen Download 1.03 MB 24 pages For the first time in 30 years, six of Canada’s hottest real estate markets are in a housing bubble. This study examines trends in house prices in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal and Ottawa between 1980 and 2010 and finds…

  • December 2007: An Interview With Afghan MP Malalai Joya

    Karzai government treats women as brutally as did the Taliban Malalai Joya, 29, is the youngest female member of Afghanistan’s parliament and has been elected twice from the western province of Farah. She is a popular women’s rights activist and an outspoken critic of the government of Hamid Karzai and…

  • A Terrible Trade Deal

    Harper’s Buy American “cure” worse than the disease It’s a clear case of déja vu, all over again. Back in the 1980s, Brian Mulroney raised the spectre of U.S. protectionism, then set out to win guaranteed access for our exports. He didn’t succeed: we got a “dispute panel” system instead, and even…

  • Fast Facts: Raise the Minimum Wage

    The Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) and the Winnipeg Free Press recently called on the Manitoba government to abandon a policy established in 1999 of mandating annual increases in the minimum wage. The CFIB (“Business group rejects hike to minimum wage,” December 26, 2009) says an increase in the…

  • What Paul Martin should do

    Paul Martin and his Liberal colleagues are handicapped by their anti-deficit phobia in dealing with the current economic downturn. A surplus come-hell-or-high-water approach makes sense in a period of economic expansion, but in the current recession (Yes, we really are going into one!), it is unwise to say the least.…

  • Property taxes: are major industries suffering?

    Businesses across Canada have been complaining about what they pay in property taxes, well, since there were property taxes.  But the issue in BC came into sharper definition in July when Catalyst Paper hand-delivered cheques to four municipalities that only covered 25% of their property tax bill.  Timberwest, Celgar and…

  • BC’s GHG emissions shell game

    The BC government recently announced a new climate action of some consequence: the phasing out of the Burrard Thermal plant in Metro Vancouver. The unit was used largely for back-up purposes, producing electricity for BC Hydro to supplement hydropower during times of high demand. But at a large GHG cost…

  • Is it time to stop worrying about the economy?

    If you read the papers in this province, you’d think BC had long forgotten about the recession. Every bit of economic good news is trumpeted enthusiastically, from small increases in employment to the latest growth forecast released by private sector economists. Yet economic forecasting is a notoriously difficult business. Just…