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    The problem with BC’s “clean growth” climate rhetoric

    The BC government recently released three “intentions papers” on climate policy—transportation, buildings and industry—all wrapped in the term “clean growth.” In fact, the term “clean” appears more than 70 times in just the introduction to the exercise, Towards a Clean Growth Future in BC. Clean growth is not a commonly…

  • Statistics Canada’s Senseless Census Decision

    Open letter to the Honourable Tony Clement, Ministry of Industry and Minister Responsible for Statistics Canada and Munir Sheikh, Chief Statistician, Statistics Canada June 30, 2010 Open letter to the Honourable Tony Clement, Ministry of Industry and Minister Responsible for Statistics Canada and Munir Sheikh, Chief Statistician, Statistics Canada Dear…

  • The “Unsustainability Myth”

    Don’t believe claims Medicare is becoming unaffordable Total health care spending in Canada has been rising in recent years, taking larger shares of government revenues and budgets. It has been accused of “crowding out” government funding of other important public services. Some economists and pundits are now predicting that, left…

  • Fast Facts: Poor No More?

    The long hard climb back to economic justice Imagine a Canada where we all have a roof over our heads, childcare for our children, access to education and a job that pays a decent wage. Imagine a Canada where we all can look forward to retiring without financial worry. As…

  • Harper’s flawed federal securities regulation plan

    Stephen Harper loves bragging about Canada’s stellar record of financial regulation. So it is a tad awkward to admit the architecture of Canada’s securities regulation is strictly bush league. Canada has a patchwork of provincial securities regulators, while other countries like the US have federal securities watchdogs (like the Securities…

  • The Latin American Revolution (Part VI)

    Countries in Latin America move to regional integration “The people have risen like a great Lazarus… so let’s hurry with our unity, to speed up the changes that have already been on their way: the Bank of the South, the unity of our oil and energy companies, the social programs,…

  • Nurses’ work deserves attention during the Ontario election

    This winter, a bad flu season that resulted in overcrowded emergency rooms shone a light on the need for a reinvestment in Ontario’s health care system.  There were crushing workloads for nurses and health care workers, whose jobs are becoming increasingly precarious—thanks to austerity measures. Starting in 2012-13, the Ontario…

  • Private Gain or Public Interest?

    Canadians should benefit fairly from oil and gas they own Canada’s oil and gas industry can and should be converted to a public-interest industry whose mandate would be to serve the broader public interest, not just the private interests of owners and shareholders. At present, the private corporations that dominate…

  • Climate Justice Project

    Government must act to renew forests

    BC’s modest tree-planting goals are falling far short of the need Few events offer as compelling an example of what climate change may mean for British Columbia as does the mountain pine beetle and its impact on our forests. In the aftermath of the beetle attack, more than one billion…

  • Gender pay gap shadows women all along income ladder: study

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT TORONTO – The average pay gap between men and women stands at 29.4 per cent in Ontario — a gap that shadows women every step of the way up the income ladder, says a new study from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’…

  • December 2005: Our Dangerous Energy Addiction

    Nuclear power badly flawed as alternative to filthy fossil fuels “It still amazes me that people don’t know that their power comes from nuclear reactors. It amazes me that many people drive past the Pickering plant on their way to work every day, and don’t know it is a nuclear…

  • BC government’s spin cycle on LNG

    Last year, we made freedom of information requests to the BC government about two CCPA-BC studies: A Clear Look at LNG by David Hughes (released May 26) and LNG and Employment in BC by myself (released July 28). Both reports poke holes in extravagant claims being made by the BC government about natural gas supplies, environmental…