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  • Why we need sectoral bargaining

    Why BC needs sectoral bargaining now

    Too many BC workers lack meaningful access to the benefits of collective bargaining and the failure of our labour laws to keep up with the evolving nature of work is a key culprit.

  • Site C is not necessary and if completed would raise British Columbians’ Hydro bills: submission

    CCPA-BC submission reconsiders the economics of Site C dam READ THE FULL SUBMISSION HERE. Vancouver–The Site C dam is not necessary, and moving forward to completion is likely to have adverse impacts on BC Hydro and ratepayers of all classes. That is the conclusion of a submission to the BC…

  • The Victims Of Drones (Part II)

    Devastating drone attacks on Pathans completely unjustified Much has been written and broadcast in the Western media about U.S. drone attacks in northwestern Pakistan, but little about the main targets of these drones: the Pathan people. I grew up with Pathans (called Pashtuns in Afghanistan) in northwest Pakistan, where I…

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    CCPA Manitoba Presentation to Standing Policy Committee on Protection, Community Services and Parks in support of the tabling of the Supervised Consumption Site in Winnipeg report June 7, 2021

    Since 2005, we have led the annual State of the Inner City research project, which has collaborated with Winnipeg over forty community-based organizations (CBOs) working in the inner city. The project researches issues that matter to CBOs and the communities they serve. It connects the personal struggles of the people…

  • Would pharmacare spell trouble for drug companies?

    The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has brought the issue of prescription drug access back to the fore as questions of affordable access became international news in March. However, the question of how to guarantee access to necessary medications for Canadians is not new. During the last federal election, calls for a…

  • Eminent policy experts draw roadmap to end for-profit long-term care in Ontario

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT TORONTO – With licenses for more than 30,000 long-term care beds set to expire in 2025 and 15,000 new beds in the works, a group of eminent public policy experts is calling on Queen’s Park to develop them all as public non-profit beds…

  • Hospital worker, face not shown, bending towards a patient

    Investing in Care, Not Profit

    Recommendations to transform long-term care in Ontario Download 362.38 KB20 pages The evidence is clear, overwhelming and tragic: Canada has a fundamental problem providing quality long-term residential care (LTC) to those whose lives and well-being depend upon it. Although many LTC homes did not experience high COVID-19 death rates, over…

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    Site C’s biggest beneficiary? Natural gas companies, not us.

    This post originally appeared on DeSmog Canada. On January 20, BC Hydro issued a press release singing the praises of a new hydro transmission line not far from where preliminary work has begun to build the $9-billion Site C dam. The release, headlined “New transmission line to power development in…

  • A dangerous path: Police use of DNA phenotyping raises ethical red flags

    What happened is a symptom of a much larger problem. In an attempt to keep up with high-tech innovation, police worldwide are increasingly buying, with little oversight, controversial technologies that they are ill-equipped to evaluate.

  • Model Sites for Rural Midwifery in Nova Scotia: Built to Fail?

    On Monday morning, there is a rally planned to try and save the South Shore Community Midwives, one of Nova Scotia’s rural midwifery programs. The program has been suspended for three weeks and its long term survival is in question. The current crisis presents an opportunity to rethink the program’s…

  • Resource Economics Project (BC)

    Site C: Too risky to rely on one river system for BC’s hydro needs

    In the face of a prolonged drought, water levels at Lake Mead, the giant hydroelectric reservoir that straddles the Nevada and Arizona borders, are lower than at any point since the iconic Hoover Dam was built in the 1930s. For residents in California, Nevada, Arizona and northern Mexico a crisis…

  • Pollution from Lynx Creek entering the Peace River. Photo by Don Hoffmann.

    Toxic landslides into the Peace River continue, add to fears about impacts of Site C and fracking

    Toxic heavy metals, including arsenic, barium, cadmium, lithium and lead, are flowing unchecked into the Peace River following a series of unusual landslides that may be linked to natural gas industry fracking operations. The landslides began nearly two years ago and show no sign of stopping. So far, they have…