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  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    From Global to Local

    GATS Impacts on Canadian Municipalities Download 572.23 KB 50 pages

  • Fast Facts: Responding to the Fentanyl crisis

    Constructing better drug policy in Manitoba First published on CBC online Dec 3, 2016 Increasing tragic deaths from Fentanyl are raising calls to deal with this crisis. Evidence shows that controlling supply and criminalizing drug users does not address the root causes of addictions, which are complex and multi-faceted. Research…

  • British Columbians will pay the LNG industry’s power bills

    In his Tyee article BC’s LNG Fraud, Andrew Nikiforuk pointed out that the government’s new eDrive policy—under which BC Hydro will supply electricity to LNG plants at the standard industrial rate, instead of the much higher rate that government had determined was needed for BC Hydro to recover its costs—will result in…

  • Labour Matters

    Work Life: Honouring Ellen Olfert, founder of SAFE Workers of Tomorrow

    Honouring Ellen Olfert, founder of SAFE Workers of Tomorrow In 1995, 19 year old Stephen Nicholson was on the job site working in a paint booth. He was working on the exhaust system and had been lowered into the vent when suddenly paint residue ignited and engulfed Stephen in flames.…

  • We need a political party that will challenge corporate rule

    On the five or six days over the past 10 years that I have been free to participate in what passes for the democratic process in Canada–federal and provincial election days–I have voted for the Green Party candidate in my riding, if there was one, or, if there wasn’t, I…

  • The Union of BC Municipalities Convention: a potpourri of policy

    For people who follow local policy issues the annual meeting of the Union of BC Municipalities (UBCM) is always chock-a-block with material. Last week’s meeting in Vancouver, which saw hundreds of mayors and councilors along with most of the Cabinet, much of the BC opposition and dozens of groups selling…

  • Resource Economics Project (BC)

    Fracking has no place near critical dams or reservoirs

    Last year, a dubious record was set when a magnitude 4.6 earthquake was triggered near Fort St. John during a natural gas industry fracking operation. The tremor was just the latest to be linked to the controversial brute force gas extraction technique, and almost certainly was noted at BC Hydro’s…

  • The Monitor, July/August 2021

    Media Democracy and Combatting Misinformation Download 2.9 MB “Canada is no stranger to dynastic ownership of its media companies,” writes Robin Shaban in her feature article in this issue of the Monitor. “Thomson, Atkinson, Black, Irving: each family name is synonymous with the control of major press operations, either nationally…

  • Colour-Coded Canada

    New study shows retirement security is colour coded in Canada

    Data reveal significant inequalities in income between Indigenous, racialized and white seniors, as well as in retirement savings for adults CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (French) CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (English) Indigenous and racialized seniors have less retirement security and higher poverty rates than white…

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    Access to information in BC is about to improve. Except there’s just this one little catch.

    There was a fair amount of good news about Freedom of Information rules and a little bit of bad news last month. But the bad news was serious and you really have to wonder why the government would bother with it when the rest of the news was good. First…

  • Provincial budget will cause gender inequalities to worsen: study

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. ST.JOHN’S – The Newfoundland and Labrador budget will worsen gender inequalities in the province, says a study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). The study reviews the impacts of the 2016-17 budget on girls and women in Newfoundland and Labrador and…