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  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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’…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Portrait of a diverse group of supportive women smiling while sitting together outdoors on patio during a summer wellness retreat
    Making Women Count

    Making Women Count

    The Unequal Economics of Women’s Work Download 3.44 MB 5 pages This study, co-published by CCPA and Oxfam Canada, looks at how women in Canada and around the world are affected by rising inequality, including the burden of unpaid work, the undervaluing of work in predominantly female fields, and the…

  • Why not put some Metro Vancouver property transfer tax into infrastructure?

    When it comes to revenue for the provincial government from property taxes in British Columbia, Metro Vancouver is such a cash cow we should be able to hear it say “moo.” The province gets revenue from property from two sources: the BC school tax and the property transfer tax. On…

  • What you need to know about BC Budget 2016

    “The measure of any society is reflected in the degree to which it is willing to help the most vulnerable.” Mike de Jong in the BC Budget 2016 Speech If this is the measure we apply to Budget 2016, then BC is failing miserably. What this budget offers to BC’s most vulnerable is…

  • Oh, Oh, Canada

    We’d be prouder if our country lived up to its potential Canadians generally are not as wildly and uncritically patriotic as Americans. We are not chauvinists. We don’t continually wave the flag and boast about our country’s pre-eminence in everything from culture to quality of life to military might. Most…

  • Taxation and Poverty

    Injustice built into our tax system hurts poor the most U.S. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once famously declared: “I don’t mind paying taxes. They buy me civilization.” I completely agree. But in the last 28 years, tax policies have been ever more biased in favour of powerful special interests which…

  • A Pandemic of Greed

    The real global epidemic is blatant media fear-mongering If there is any pandemic sweeping the globe, it’s one of fear and greed, not a deadly new strain of influenza. The news media have filled their pages and newscasts with reports of deaths in Mexico, Texas, and even one in Canada,…