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Canada – EU Trade Deal Bad for Manitoba
Recent leaks from the negotiations between Canada and EU confirm concerns that a comprehensive economic and trade agreement (CETA) would infringe on Manitoba’s ability to promote economic development and advance public interests. The proposed precedent-setting agreement would expand investor rights and extend the reach of international economic agreements, fully covering…
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Province of British Columbia / Flickr” style=”border-radius:0px;–objectFit:cover;–imagePosX:50%;–imagePosY:50%” decoding=”async” srcset=”https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/policynote_oct2017_eight-reasons-site-c-300×141.jpg 300w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/policynote_oct2017_eight-reasons-site-c-1024×480.jpg 1024w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/policynote_oct2017_eight-reasons-site-c-768×360.jpg 768w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/policynote_oct2017_eight-reasons-site-c.jpg 1280w” sizes=”(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px” />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…
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CETA and Nova Scotia
Who Pays for ‘Free’ Trade? Download 514.25 KB 44 pages This report is a step toward remedying the unjustifiable lack of transparency about the Comprehensive and Economic Trade Agreement (CETA), and toward stimulating much-needed public debate about its potential impacts on Nova Scotia.
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Elbows Up Economic Summit
Building a sovereign, sustainable, value-added economy
Donald Trump’s trade war and other attacks on Canadian sovereignty have exposed the vulnerabilities of Canada’s economy, 35 years after our first free trade deal with the U.S. The Elbows Up Economic Summit in Ottawa on September 2025 convened a discussion with 40 progressive economists and policy experts on how…
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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…
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The CETA and Nova Scotia: Oversold benefits, Untold Costs
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The CETA and Health Care Reservations
A briefing note for the Canadian Health Coalition Download 123.85 KB 2 pages There is a clear incompatibility between Canadian health care policies and the increasing scope of international trade and investment treaties. Canada’s public health insurance system and the regulations around who can provide health care services and on…
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BC Hydro” style=”border-radius:0px;–objectFit:cover;–imagePosX:50%;–imagePosY:50%” decoding=”async” srcset=”https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pn_Mar2019_ShakingThePeace-300×141.jpg 300w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pn_Mar2019_ShakingThePeace-1024×480.jpg 1024w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pn_Mar2019_ShakingThePeace-768×360.jpg 768w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pn_Mar2019_ShakingThePeace.jpg 1280w” sizes=”(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px” />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…
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The EU wants a wide-open banking system. We should say no.
The stakes are high in the last stages of the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) talks, yet there remains a serious lack of public information and debate about what is actually on the table. Negotiators boast that the CETA is the most ambitious and comprehensive economic treaty ever,…
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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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Tar Sands and the CETA
Download 129.48 KB4 pages The recent decision by the European Union (EU) to disregard Canadian government pressure and forge ahead with regulations that recognise the higher green-house-gas intensity of fuel produced from tar sands and oil shale is encouraging. The Canadian government has lobbied furiously against Article 7a of the…
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Municipalities, Progressive Purchasing Policies and the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA)
Download 143.37 KB 5 pages Remarks by Scott Sinclair to the Columbia Institute’s Centre for Civic Governance “dialogue session” held on June 3, 2011 in Halifax in conjunction with the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ annual conference.
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