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  • Specialist offers insight into lives of WorkSafe claimants with chronic pain: poverty, depression, suicide attempts

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) A report released today takes an in-depth look at a sample of WCB (or Worksafe BC) claimants with chronic pain and raises the alarm about serious flaws in how WCB deals with injured workers who develop chronic pain. “I’ve been working in…

  • From Patchwork Quilt to Sturdy Foundation

    CCPA-NS Submission to the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development’s Regulated Child Care Review Download 233.92 KB 10 pages On May 14, 2015, CCPA-NS Director Christine Saulnier, and CCPA-NS Research Associate Tammy Findlay, wrote this submission to the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development’s Regulated Child Care Review.

  • Damage on Highway 7 damage at Ruby Creek from the November 2022 flooding events

    Government to investigate deadly landslide

    Months after five killed, experts to determine if failed logging road caused fatal mudslide Seven months after a mudslide killed five people on Highway 99, the provincial Ministry of Forests is launching an investigation into the event, marking the first time that it has indicated that a failed logging road…

  • Le Canada peut s’inspirer de la gestion du patrimoine pétrolier par la Norvège, selon une étude

    CLIQUEZ ICI POUR CONSULTER LE RAPPORT. OTTAWA – Une nouvelle étude du Centre canadien de politiques alternatives compare l’expérience du Canada et de l’Alberta à celle de la Norvège, autre important pays producteur et exportateur de pétrole. L’auteur y constate que les deux pays ont emprunté des voies très différentes et…

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    A deadly wake-up call

    In aftermath of a landslide that killed five, experts say government must act now to avoid more “preventable” deaths Second of Two Parts (read the first) As 2021 drew to a close, Premier John Horgan said many British Columbians would remember it “as the year that climate change arrived on…

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    Just transition planning for a managed wind-down of fossil fuels in BC

    Resource development has long been central to BC’s economy. But commodity prices swing, industries consolidate and patterns of demand change over time. When they do, resource industry workers are often left holding the bag. The price is often much more than just involuntary unemployment for laid-off workers, but also includes…

  • A Misdirected Response to a Self-Inflicted Problem

    The essence of BC Hydro’s Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) is straightforward. Maintain aggressive conservation targets and plan to build Site C as soon as possible in order to meet the forecast growth in British Columbia’s basic electricity requirements. As for LNG, the energy needed for the liquefaction process is expected…

  • Glacial pace of governments out of sync with fentanyl crisis

    British Columbia is experiencing the worst opioid overdose crisis in its history. By October 31st, the BC Coroners Service reported that 1208 people had died from overdose: higher than the next three causes of unnatural deaths combined—suicides, motor vehicle incidents and homicides. The numbers for November and December will be…

  • The Monitor, May/June 2022

    Hatred unmasked: Tracking the rise of right-wing extremism in Canada Download 4.99 MB Issue highlights: The wellness-to-white-supremacy pipeline is alive and well. Stacy Lee Kong’s examines the role that wellness influencers like Oh She Glows’ Angela Liddon play in funneling white women into right-wing radicalization. Uprooting the racism in our ranks. Members…

  • Have artists become their own patrons in Quebec?

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  • Access to Knowledge Restricted

    Intellectual property protection primarily protects profits Affordable access to food, pharmaceuticals, and scientific advancement is essential for the well-being of Canadians and society in general. Intellectual property (IP) protection is one area or policy that has the ability to jeopardize this access.  Unfortunately, the policies that govern IP—the regulations that…

  • Why are we letting corporate medicine take hold in Vancouver’s new urgent care centres?

    The BC government has rolled out a flurry of impressive measures to strengthen our public health care system over the past two years. Flying below the radar, though, is a new effort by for-profit corporations to push their way into BC’s health care system — and the Vancouver Coastal Health…