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  • Climate Justice Project

    Innovative Approaches to Low-Carbon Urban Systems

    A Case Study of Vancouver’s Neighbourhood Energy Utility Download 546.93 KB27 pages We know that we don’t want to invest in more fossil fuel infrastructure, so what’s the alternative green infrastructure we want? Marc Lee takes a cut at this question with a case study of the City of Vancouver’s…

  • Hennessy’s Index: February 2015

    The Appeal of Middle Class Economics Hennessy’s Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy, about Canada and its place in the world. For other months, visit: http://policyalternatives.ca/index 52% Percentage of Canadians who self-identify as middle class when asked to describe their “social and financial…

  • Resource Economics Project (BC)

    Expansion of industrial salmon farming likely to produce few or no new jobs in BC, new economic study shows

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT Vancouver–A new economic study shows that industrial salmon aquaculture will deliver no or few new jobs in BC, even if the industry doubles in size. What’s more, the industry produces relatively few jobs and minimal economic benefits to the provincial economy right now,…

  • Disappointing Premier’s announcement won’t help the BC economy

    British Columbians who expected to see any meaningful action on the economy tonight were greatly disappointed by Premier Campbell’s address. In a paid television appearance (*update* which we now know cost $240,000), the Premier attempted to set the record straight on HST and claimed to be concerned about the economy…

  • Refuting the tired claims of those opposed to minimum wage increases

    In a Vancouver Sun opinion piece, Laura Jones of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business warns against minimum wage increases, calling it “Fa-la-la economics”. Perhaps it’s not the season to be so Grinch-like. Jones is right about one thing – the minimum wage is not a magic cure for our…

  • Is Big Oil a big job creator?

    Even if we take that 905,000 figure at face value—CERI makes a wide variety of optimistic assumptions and an accurate 25-year employment forecast is pretty farfetched—it works out to just 36,000 new jobs per year. And if we cut out indirect and induced employment, the report says the oil sands will…

  • Fracking—Dollars and Sense

    This commentary, by Michael Bradfield, a member of the Nova Scotia Hydraulic Facturing (Fracking) Review Panel, clarifies the economics of adopting a serious ban on exploration and exploitation of shale gas reserves. Attachments Fracking—Dollars and Sense

  • British Columbia’s largest raw log exporters make pitch to deregulate

    Federal government would do well to resist call by Mosaic Forest Management, before opportunities to process wood in province are further compromised British Columbia’s forest industry was in trouble long before anyone had heard the name of the virus now seared into our brains.  Months before COVID-19 appeared, forest companies…

  • CCPA-BC launches new documentary: The Good Life – The Green Life

    Happy to announce that the CCPA-BC has released its third documentary film, a video series entitled The Good Life – The Green Life. This project has been about two years in the making, led by our communications director Shannon Daub. I encourage you to visit the special website created for…

  • Fast Facts: Canadian Premium Sand Barges Ahead With New Plan

    First published in the Winnipeg Free Press June 12, 2020 During the height of the global pandemic Canadian Premium Sand (CPS) released its plan B for their proposed frac sand mine and processing facility on the east side of Lake Winnipeg. Quite frankly plan B is even worse then their…

  • BC Budget Consultation Presentation June 2020

    The BC government is holding its annual public consultation on Budget 2021 this June, inviting British Columbians to share their priorities for government investment next year. BC Budget 2021 will have to tackle the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis—the full extent of which are still largely unknown. It is hard…

  • Modi and the criminalization of Indian politics

    The election of Narendra Modi as India’s prime minister in May, with strong backing from the country’s capitalist class, placed a mass murderer at the head of the world’s largest democracy. It was a shocking and unprecedented development whose consequences for India’s political and economic future are ominous. A history…