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  • Decarbonizing Homes and the Price of Gas

    Our climate justice framework for BC is to eliminate fossil fuels by 2040. In the household sector, this poses a significant challenge, not so much in terms of technology and knowledge, but because natural gas is much cheaper than electricity per unit of energy. Even though BC has among the…

  • When Business And Progressives Agree

    It was news, not so much because of what was said, as who said it:  The Conference Board of Canada released a report on rising inequality in Canada today, noting that despite the fact that Canadians are better off than a generation ago, the richest 20% in society are taking an ever-growing…

  • Navigating troubling economic waters

    Down south, the Obama administration is in a dangerous game of chicken with Republican congressional leaders, who are cynically holding the US economy hostage in order to impose a radical agenda of spending cuts. Obama has seemingly bought into the rhetoric of cutting debt, rather than focusing on the real…

  • Is BC about to drop a new carbon bomb?

    Any day now the BC government should be releasing the latest greenhouse gas data for the province, and we will see if any progress is being made towards a legislated 33% reduction in emissions by 2020 (relative to 2007 levels; data will be for 2009 and we know that emissions…

  • Government Assaults on Unions: The Economic History and the Consequences

    In the early 1980s, the world was gripped by recession. Following the troubled years of the 1970s, there was considerable worry throughout the developed world that we had entered a period of endemic stagnation. The real problem, it was claimed, was that the western economies had lost their ability to…

  • Now It’s Up To The Provinces

    Premiers don’t require federal help to implement Pharmacare Canadians generally are not as wildly and uncritically patriotic as Americans. We don’t continually wave the Maple Leaf flag and boast about our country’s social and economic pre-eminence. But most of us – quietly and unostentatiously — are proud of Canada and…

  • Fossil fuel expansion as a crime against humanity

    After 2010, which was one of the warmest years on record, 2011 has shown us astonishing patterns of extreme weather worldwide. It would take a long time to make the full list, but you know what I mean: tornadoes, floods, drought, record cold in some parts, record heat in others,…

  • Jack Mintz is Right on “Small” Business Tax

    One of my main undertakings over at Relentlessly Progressive Economics has been to debunk Jack Mintz’s relentless advocacy of tax cuts for large corporations. However, I also give him credit when he proposes good policy, such as raising potash royalties and the small-business corporate tax rate. This past week, he was out with a paper on the latter…

  • Nova Scotians paying more than their fair share for post-secondary education: Report

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT Halifax – The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia (CCPA-NS) released a new report today which shows that Nova Scotia students and their families are paying almost three times as much as the provincial government. The report, entitled Fairness, Funding and our Collective…

  • Temporary foreign workers and the election

    A major issue getting scant debate An election should be a time to discuss key policy directions. One of the biggest policy transformations in the Harper era has been the enormous growth in Temporary Foreign Workers (TFWs) –– “guest” workers who come to Canada for short periods, generally tied to…

  • How Much Would Harper Cost Your Province?

    As I note in the following op-ed in today’s Toronto Star, federal Conservative election promises entail significant fiscal costs for provincial governments. It is not the first time that Harper has tried to stick provinces with the tab. For example, his policy of increased incarceration imposes costs on provincial jails. For links to references supporting…

  • Temporary Foreign Workers and the Election: A Major Issue Getting Scant Debate

    An election should be a time to discuss key policy directions. One of the biggest policy transformations in the Harper era has been the enormous growth in Temporary Foreign Workers (TFWs) – “guest” workers who come to Canada for short periods, generally tied to specific employers, without future prospects for…