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Defending rights from corporate power
The case for a Peoples’ Treaty On April 24, 2013, an eight-storey building known as Rana Plaza collapsed in Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing more than 1,100 garment workers and injuring thousands of others. The victims, mostly women, worked in factories owned by a number of companies (New Wave Bottoms, Phantom, Ether…
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New paper warns of global “ecological overshoot” and rising inequality
UBC professor publication highlights policy alternatives to achieve true sustainability in CCPA publication CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) In a new paper entitled Avoiding Collapse: An agenda for sustainable degrowth and relocalizing the economy, UBC Professor Emeritus William E. Rees, the originator of “ecological footprint analysis”, explores…
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Women in the Canadian Economy
Last weekend, I spoke at a community event celebrating International Women’s Day in Vancouver. It got me thinking about the status of women in the Canadian economy, reflecting both on the successes over the last half century and on the areas where work is still needed to achieve gender equality.…
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Fast Facts: You Get What You Pay For
Winnipeg’s mayoral race is now officially underway. Any serious contenders are going to have to convince a very skeptical public that they can turn around what really has been a winter of discontent with City services. Unfortunately, problems that have taken years to accumulate are unlikely to be addressed overnight.…
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TFWs Give Firms the Incentive to Create the Wrong Kind of Jobs
The recent controversy over Temporary Foreign Workers (TFWs) highlights that companies can be profitable with very different approaches to wages and worker turnover. On one side of the spectrum are companies such as Lee Valley Tools, which treats its employees well in terms of wages, benefits, and training, and has…
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Don’t believe the (LNG) hype
Today we released a new report, Path to Prosperity? A Closer Look at British Columbia’s Natural Gas Royalties and Proposed LNG Income Tax, about liquefied natural gas (LNG ) development in BC, and the public revenues that might be expected. So far, LNG has lacked a real public debate. On…
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BC government urged to lower expectations for LNG-based “Prosperity Fund”
New report shows that $100 billion from liquified natural gas “not likely to be realized given real world conditions” READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Vancouver-–A report released today finds that the BC government’s projection of a $100 billion “Prosperity Fund” from LNG exports is based on assumptions that are, in…
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Path to Prosperity?
A Closer Look at British Columbia’s Natural Gas Royalties and Proposed LNG Income Tax Download 824.06 KB 15 pages This report examines the assumptions behind the BC government’s projection of a $100 billion “Prosperity Fund” from LNG exports, and finds that the returns promised to the public are not realistic. This is…
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Work Life: Why we still fight
The Day of Mourning, more than any other day in the labour movement’s calendar, brings home why we must remain vigilant in the area of workers’ rights. As reported by the Canadian Labour Congress, more than 1,000 workers are killed on the job or die as a result of workplace…
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Fast Facts – Grain, Trains and Autocrats: farmers pay the price of dismantling the Wheat Board
This was originally published in the Winnipeg Free Press on April 15, 2014 A banner 2013 crop year and some rail delays due to cold weather don’t account for all our grain transportation woes. Coordination of rail to ships is out of synch: a study by Quoram Corporation found that…
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Massive Secret Surveillance in Canada
Canadian government spies on Brazil — and its own citizens In the September issue of the CCPA Monitor, I reported on the U.S. National Security Agency’s (NSA) spying on hundreds of millions of its citizens, as revealed by whistle-blower and former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. Now it appears that the…
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L’AECG mènera à une hausse du coût des médicaments
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT Ottawa—L’Accord économique et commercial global entre le Canada et l’Union européenne (AECG) mènera à une hausse significative du coût des médicaments selon une étude publiée aujourd’hui par le Centre canadien de politiques alternatives (CCPA). L’étude examine les dernières révélations concernant l’accord provisoire et…