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  • Corporate Mapping Project

    Climate Politics in the Patch

    Engaging Saskatchewan’s Oil-Producing Communities on Climate Change Issues Download 944.29 KB24 pages The future of oil extraction and transportation is one of the most contentious issues in Canadian politics. Plans for the construction of new pipelines to both the East and West coasts has entrenched old divisions between Eastern and…

  • Tax breaks and subsidies for BC LNG

    At the height of LNG-mania in 2013/14, high prices in Asia fueled a gold rush mentality in BC—based on shipping cheap BC gas to Asia for mega-profits. But those high prices proved only temporary, and by 2015 the economic case for LNG (liquified natural gas) turned on its head. The…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    Le PTP pourrait entraîner une détérioration de la balance commerciale du Canada et affaiblir les secteurs à forte intensité de main-d’œuvre, selon une étude

    CLIQUEZ ICI POUR CONSULTER LE RAPPORT. OTTAWA – Pendant les consultations que mène le gouvernement fédéral sur le Partenariat transpacifique (PTP), une nouvelle étude du Centre canadien de politiques alternatives (CCPA) remet en question les immenses avantages commerciaux que le PTP est censé représenter pour le Canada. L’étude conclut que…

  • Three health care priorities for a new government

    The transition to power for a new government in BC provides the opportunity to set a new course that addresses both immediate and longstanding policy challenges. On the health care front, there is no shortage of pressing issues facing the new government. It is reassuring, however, that one of the…

  • Virtual walk-in clinics undermine primary care

    Despite efforts by the BC government to increase access to primary care, new developments risk making it even harder to find a doctor. BC is one of the only provinces that allows doctors to bill government for virtual phone or video visits without restrictions. This may make it more convenient to see…

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    Move to prevent extra billing will strengthen BC’s public health system

    It’s taken over 14 years, but British Columbians will finally be protected against unlawful charges for medical services — just like all other Canadians. In 2003, the BC government brought in the Medicare Protection Amendment Act (Bill 92) to prevent unlawful extra billing as required by the federal Canada Health…

  • Paternity Leave: An Idea Whose Time has Come

    More than 80% of men in Quebec take leave after their child is born. On average they take 5 weeks. In the rest of Canada, less than 30% of fathers take leave and on average they take just over 2 weeks. There are two possible explanations for this difference:

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    Corporate Mapping Project

    New report shines light on the state of fossil fuel industry in Eastern Canada – an overlooked region in energy transition debates

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT [HALIFAX/ Kjipuktuk, June 6, 2023] – Despite Eastern Canada being highly invested in oil and gas production, the region is often left out of energy policy discussions typically focused on Western provinces. A new report maps the extensive existing and proposed fossil fuel exploration,…

  • Resource Economics Project (BC)

    The real reason the BC government is spending $9 billion on Site C

    From a lookout high atop a windswept bluff, the scale of work already underway at Site C is daunting. Large tracts of boreal forest logged. Vast amounts of topsoil stripped away for a trailer city to house hundreds of workers. Gravel from the fish-bearing river excavated to build a roadbed…

  • Financing public housing: how a massive expansion of rental homes can literally pay for itself

    In the face of a mounting housing crisis, what if BC could massively increase public investment in below-market rental housing—and if that upfront investment could literally pay for itself, with no increase to taxpayer-supported debt? While this might sound too good to be true, it simply follows from the basic…

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    Ontario PC convention: Will it shed light on Patrick Brown’s agenda?

    In 2015 Patrick Brown won the leadership of Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives (PC) on a promise of party renewal and provincial change, but since then he has made surprisingly few defining policy announcements.

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    BC needs an opioid action plan: An open letter to the government of BC

    CCPA-BC Director Seth Klein is a signatory to this open letter to the BC government calling for a provincial opioid action plan. The letter was coordinated by the Public Health Association of BC, a voluntary, non-profit, non-government, member-driven organization that provides leadership to promote health. Since April, 2016 when the…