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  • BC First Nations are poised to lead the renewable energy transition

    These are exciting times in British Columbia for those interested in building sustainable, just and climate-friendly energy systems. The recent change in government could mean a shift away from a corporate agenda driven by the needs of a massively energy-intensive fracking and LNG industry towards one that prioritizes action on…

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    Site C’s economic justifications unconvincing: It’s time we made decisions differently

    There is no question that the new BC government’s decision to proceed with the Site C dam was a very difficult one. The previous government left them with a poison pill. With $2 billion already spent, the Horgan government faced a no-win choice, with substantial political and economic costs for…

  • Bleeding the patient: tracking five years of Ontario revenue reductions

    Provincial coffers are short $7.7 billion this year

    With Ontario’s 2024 pre-budget consultations well under way, it’s time to think hard about public services in this province—and how we fund them.

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    Eight reasons the Site C dam is not needed: My testimony to BC Utilities Commission

    Last week, I appeared before the BC Utilities Commission (BCUC) at their Technical Presentation Session in Vancouver, and gave a brief presentation about my findings relating to the economics of the proposed Site C dam. Here’s what I had to say: Thank you to the Commission for the invitation to…

  • Fast Facts: The Shock Doctrine Playing Out in Manitoba

    Noted Canadian author and social activist Naomi Klein published The Shock Doctrine more than a decade ago. The book’s major thesis is that governments and others in position of power exploit national and international crises to establish controversial policies while citizens are too distracted to notice, to engage and to…

  • Comments on the Fair Elections Act (Bill C-23)

    The CCPA was invited to appear before The House of Commons’ Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs to present on Bill C-23, the Fair Elections Act. Patti Tamara Lenard, an Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and CCPA Research Associate, presented…

  • The only thing certain about COVID-19 is uncertainty. What does this mean for workers?

    On March 16, Chandra noticed a burning sensation in her ear canals and neck. She and her family were isolating at home due to the outbreak of COVID-19, but public health officials were warning only of fever and cough so she didn’t think too much of it. It wasn’t until…

  • A portion of a massive, 3,000-hectare clear-cut in the Kerry Lake East region near the community of McLeod Lake on treaty lands held by the McLeod Lake Indian Band. Photo: Conservation North

    BC First Nation logs almost all of its treaty lands, leaving behind lots of stumps and questions

      In just three years, much of the McLeod Lake Indian Band’s treaty lands were stripped of their bountiful and exceedingly valuable trees in a surge of logging that included one massive clear-cut that is almost 3,000 hectares in size, or 7.5 times larger than Vancouver’s Stanley Park.   The extensive…

  • “Parental choice” is a dog-whistle—let’s recognize it as such

    It’s less about choice, and more about privilege, privatization, populism, and patriarchy

    It’s less about choice, and more about privilege, privatization, populism, and patriarchy

  • 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…

  • 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.