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  • An island in the Peace River and in West Moberly First Nations territory that will be lost forever if the Site C dam is completed and its reservoir is filled. Photo: Garth Lenz.

    Reconciliation in action?

    Far from it, says chief of holdout First Nation over deal with province on Site C In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which was tasked with informing all Canadians about what happened to Indigenous Peoples in residential schools, defined the word reconciliation as a process of “establishing and maintaining…

  • Re-imagining Long-term Residential Care in Canada

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. TORONTO—The COVID-19 crisis offers an opportunity to create a new, better normal at Canadian long-term residential care facilities, according to a new background report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). Evidence collected over more than a decade suggests there are a…

  • Leave the patchwork for the quilts: The case for national pharmacare

    FEBRUARY 2, 2015 The Canadian Health Coalition (CHC) was founded in 1979 as a public advocacy organization dedicated to the preservation and improvement of medicare. It brings together organizations representing nurses, health care workers, seniors, churches, trade unions, anti-poverty groups and women, as well as affiliated coalitions in nine provinces…

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    Challenging Site C: The BC Utilities Commission preliminary report

    The BC Utilities Commission preliminary report demonstrates why independent review of mega-projects like Site C is so essential, even with the short timeframe imposed by the BC government (the final report is due November 1). The previous government’s deliberate exemption of Site C from BCUC review is scandalous in subverting…

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  • A natural gas industry disposal well operation near BC's Hydro's Peace Canyon Dam. BC Hydro fears any re-sumption of pumping operations at the well site could trigger an earthquake with potentially devastating conse-quences for the dam and the safety of people living downstream. Photo © Garth Lenz.

    The Well from Hell

    Part 2 of a report on how fracking poses risks to BC Hydro’s Peace River Dams Read Part 1 of the report View timeline BC Hydro was so worried that its Peace Canyon dam could be badly damaged if an earthquake was triggered at a nearby natural gas industry disposal…

  • The end of Site C? BC Utilities Commission finds “tension cracks” in BC Hydro’s case for the mega dam

    The BC Utilities Commission final report on Site C is a bombshell. It now seems very likely we will see the termination of the BC Hydro mega-project by the end of the year. I had anticipated a final report that was more equivocal, which would result in a difficult decision…

  • Canadian standards for long-term care could right COVID-19 wrongs: Experts

    TORONTO, VANCOUVER—Two veteran seniors care researchers have detailed federally mandated standards to reform long-term care amid a second wave of COVID-19 in a new discussion paper by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. A Higher Standard: Setting national standards for long-term and continuing care outlines the key principles and minimum…

  • Decolonizing the Media

    Challenges and Obstacles on the Road to Reconciliation Download 995.9 KB20 pages In light of Media Democracy day on November 19th, the Saskatchewan Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is pleased to release “Decolonizing the Media: Challenges and Obstacles on the Road to Reconciliation” by Dr. Patricia Elliott…

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    Shaking the Peace: Fracking-induced earthquakes rattle BC Hydro execs and farmers alike

    BC Hydro officials were so alarmed by an earthquake that shook the ground at its sprawling Site C dam construction project in late November, they ordered a halt to all work and got on the phone to British Columbia’s Oil and Gas Commission (OCG). The 4.5 magnitude earthquake was linked…

  • The importance of community health centres in BC’s primary care reforms: What the research tells us

    Community health centres (CHCs) have been an effective but under-valued model for delivering primary health care1 for decades in Canada and the US. One of the unique features of the model is its strong focus on the social determinants of health and preventing acute illness among groups who are more likely to experience poor health and…

  • What cuts to insect scientists tell us about federal austerity in Canada

    The federal government is sacrificing vital scientific capacity for ideological reasons—and hamstringing their own policymaking ability in the process