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  • Climate Justice Project

    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…

  • Labour Matters

    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…

  • 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…

  • Vancouver City Budget Woes: Are the Cuts Really Necessary?

    In this round of municipal budgeting, the city of Vancouver finds itself in exactly the same predicament as the federal and provincial governments faced earlier in the year – projected revenues would not be sufficient to meet their rising expenditures. The big difference is that municipal governments are prohibited by…

  • 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…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    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…

  • Labour Matters

    Work Life: A Province with No Poverty?

    The so-called war on poverty has been an abysmal failure.  Poverty rates in Canada remain at stubbornly high levels.  Most provinces, including Manitoba, still have about one in 10 living below acceptable low-income cut-offs.    Low-income Manitobans, like other low-income Canadians, fall back on a myriad of programs supposedly aimed at…

  • Labour Matters

    Work Life: Workplace Safety a motherhood issue? Not yet.

    In Manitoba, messages about the importance of workplace health and safety are hard to miss. The SAFE Work campaigns run year-round by the Workers Compensation Board are trying to foster a culture of workplace health and safety in which it becomes socially unacceptable to put workers in harm’s way. After…

  • Corporate Child Abuse

    Profit-driven system exploits, mistreats vulnerable youth “There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul,” Nelson Mandela says, “than the way in which it treats its children.” Who would disagree? Yet today children may be assaulted, diseased, or killed by pervasive corporate drugs, junk foods and beverages, perverted by…

  • Youth employment measures in #bdgt14 do little to fix a big problem

    It’s not unreasonable to say that Canada has a youth employment crisis. The employment rate for youth in January was at one of its lowest points since the start of the recession, at 50.6%[i]. That’s only 0.1% higher than it was two years ago and down by a tenth compared…

  • Deconstructing BC Hydro’s Rate Increase

    When the government imposed its Energy Plan on BC Hydro it never bothered to estimate the costs (or for that matter the benefits) of what it hoped to achieve. Ardent supporters of that Plan, like my good friend Mark Jaccard, constructed scenarios under which it would make sense to force…

  • Doing the math on all-day-K

    Amid the corner-cutting exercise that was the September BC budget, there seemed to be a glimmer of hope: actual money was alloted for the expansion of kindergarten to full day. Could it be that the BC government has finally started to get it and is planning to heed its own…