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  • Climate Justice Project

    Path to Prosperity?

    A Closer Look at British Columbia’s Natural Gas Royalties and Proposed LNG Income Tax Download 824.06 KB 15 pages This report examines the assumptions behind the BC government’s projection of a $100 billion “Prosperity Fund” from LNG exports, and finds that the returns promised to the public are not realistic. This is…

  • Canada vs. Norway: The Petro Path Not Taken

    Momentum is building across Canada on the need to develop a sustainable national energy strategy. On this front, Canada and Alberta, its main petro-province, has much to learn from another major petroleum producing and exporting country, Norway. Canada and Norway are advanced industrialized countries with highly developed political, bureaucratic and…

  • Enbridge testimony from Josh Paterson

    A guest post follows from Josh Paterson, who is formerly a lawyer with West Coast Environmental Law, and recently appointed Executive Director of the BC Civil Liberties Association. Josh’s remarks are his own personal opinions. ********** Good evening. I’m happy to be here in unceded Coast Salish territories to address you…

  • 5 reasons why private surgeries won’t shorten waits in the public system

    After years of delay, Dr. Brian Day’s case against the BC Government is now being heard in BC Supreme Court. Day and his private for-profit Cambie Surgery Centre are challenging the parts of the BC Medicare Protection Act that prevent doctors and private clinics from directly billing patients for medically…

  • The Real Crisis in Medicare

    Canada needs (and can afford) complete national health care Contrary to the alarm raised by Canada’s premiers, the Harper government’s abdication from its leadership role in health care does not constitute a crisis. Canada’s health care system has been under provincial jurisdiction since the Constitution Act, 1867, and the federal…

  • Putting ETS to the Test

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  • Wood wasted at BC logging sites would fill a cross-country truck convoy — twice

    Costs include thousands of potential jobs, sharply higher CO2 emissions: report CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) A new report on BC’s forest industry finds that startling numbers of usable logs are being left to rot or burn at logging sites, at a potential cost of thousands of…

  • Fast Facts: The Thin Edge of a Wedge

    Privatization of Lifeflight First published in the Winnipeg Free Press, February 2, 2019 When it comes to evaluating the “value for money” in air ambulance services, the safety of patients and staff should be a key factor. When the operators of the air ambulance are private companies, though, the bottom…

  • The wrong question in the wrong forum

    It didn’t take very much time at the joint federal-provincial environmental hearing into Site C, which started this week in Fort St. John, to realize that it is not the best forum to address the central issue underlying BC Hydro’s proposal to develop the $8 to $9 billion hydro project.…

  • April 2004: HEU workers' rights violated by Bill 37 that imposed massive wage rollbacks on 43,000 hospital and long-term health care workers. Photo Credit: HEU

    20 years later: How corporations took over Canada’s health care system

    Caring for Profit: How corporations are taking over Canada’s health care system was published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) and New Star Books nearly 20 years ago, shortly after the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) General Agreement on Trade in…

  • Climate Justice Project

    New report calls on federal government to table promised Just Transition Act

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT The federal government must move to implement ambitious and comprehensive legislation to support workers and communities in the shift toward a net-zero carbon economy, according to a new report, Roadmap to a Canadian Just Transition Act: A path to a clean and inclusive…

  • Labour Matters

    Fast Facts: Canada’s Long-Term Care Workers on the Front Lines of the COVID-19 Pandemic

    The COVID-19 pandemic has in less than four months spread throughout the globe and altered both the daily lives of citizens and the economy of many countries, including Canada. Media reports through all platforms cover COVID-19 extensively, in fact there is not much else in the news these days.  While…