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  • AFB 2024: Macroeconomic and fiscal projections

    Alternative Federal Budget: What the federal government could achieve on macroeconomics and fiscal projections

    Alternative Federal Budget: what the federal government could achieve on macroeconomics and fiscal projections

  • Canada is not going to build its way to housing affordability

    Supply-side housing economics ignores a number of important factors

    Supply-side housing economics ignores a number of important factors

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    To break housing gridlock, we need to democratize unrepresentative public hearings

    Housing policy has a democracy problem. Amid a housing crisis, highly unrepresentative public hearing processes contribute to land-use decisions that fail to reflect the perspectives and interests of all affected residents. But the right reforms can help deepen democracy and break housing gridlock. At the municipal level, decisions about providing…

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    Trade and Investment Research Project

    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…

  • BC Hydro

    Losing sight at Site C

    Court documents and FOI materials show BC Hydro knew shale would move at troubled construction project, yet Hydro proceeded with river diversion BC Hydro approved the pouring of massive amounts of concrete to build a buttress at its problem-plagued Site C dam project months before a critical drainage tunnel was…

  • The desperate need for a paradigm shift in establishment macroeconomics

    Mario Seccareccia argues that the COVID-19 crisis has shown us that it is time for a paradigm shift away from neoliberal policy in establishment macroeconomics. Seccareccia describes how the crisis, beginning with the preceding Global Financial Crisis of 2008, reversed many of the key conventional precepts that guided policy since…

  • Katharina Pistor

    2024 Rosenbluth lecture with Dr. Katharina Pistor

    In this lecture, Dr. Pistor discusses themes from her latest book, The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality, which explores how the public institutions of the legal system—like property law or taxation—are used to create private wealth.

  • Manitoba Alternative Budgets

    Manitoba Alternative Provincial Budget Childcare Chapter only

    Download 178.66 KB 7 pages Childcare Chapter excerpt from the soon to be released Manitoba Alternative Provincial Budget 2020.

  • An island in the Peace River and in West Moberly First Nations territory that will be lost forever if the Site C dam is completed and its reservoir is filled. Photo: Garth Lenz.

    Reconciliation in action?

    Far from it, says chief of holdout First Nation over deal with province on Site C In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which was tasked with informing all Canadians about what happened to Indigenous Peoples in residential schools, defined the word reconciliation as a process of “establishing and maintaining…

  • The WAC Bennett dam impounds the world’s seventh-largest reservoir. In 2012 a BC Hydro employee speculated a fracking operation may have caused a sudden change in the reservoir’s water levels. Photo: Jayce Hawkins.

    Peace River Frack-Up

    Part 1 of a report on how fracking poses risks to BC Hydro’s Peace River dams Read Part 2 of the report View timeline BC Hydro has known for well over a decade that its Peace Canyon dam is built on weak, unstable rock and that an earthquake triggered by…

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    Challenging Site C: The BC Utilities Commission preliminary report

    The BC Utilities Commission preliminary report demonstrates why independent review of mega-projects like Site C is so essential, even with the short timeframe imposed by the BC government (the final report is due November 1). The previous government’s deliberate exemption of Site C from BCUC review is scandalous in subverting…

  • A natural gas industry disposal well operation near BC's Hydro's Peace Canyon Dam. BC Hydro fears any re-sumption of pumping operations at the well site could trigger an earthquake with potentially devastating conse-quences for the dam and the safety of people living downstream. Photo © Garth Lenz.

    The Well from Hell

    Part 2 of a report on how fracking poses risks to BC Hydro’s Peace River Dams Read Part 1 of the report View timeline BC Hydro was so worried that its Peace Canyon dam could be badly damaged if an earthquake was triggered at a nearby natural gas industry disposal…