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  • Resource Economics Project (BC)

    Down the Value Chain

    The Politics and Economics of Raw Log Exports Download 156.84 KB8 pages

  • Resource Economics Project (BC)

    Raw log exports eliminating up to 1,500 jobs in BC

    Increasing exports will undermine battered North Coast economy, says think tank READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Vancouver–The BC government is forfeiting hundreds of jobs and millions of dollars in revenue by allowing a dramatic increase in raw log exports. An estimated 800 forestry jobs, or $162 million in wages and…

  • Resource Economics Project (BC)

    BC exports raw logs, jobs and revenue

    More raw logs–along with jobs and revenue–will be shipped out of BC over the next three years. That’s because the BC government, in February of this year, passed an Order-in-Council allowing an additional 2.7 million cubic metres of raw log exports. The increased exports are to come from the battered…

  • Resource Economics Project (BC)

    In service of business

    BC’s new plan for the environment When analyzing the full array of plans to cut, privatize, and deregulate environmental protection, there is one clear theme that emerges. In its bid to improve the province’s investment climate, the BC government has put the emphasis on facilitating access to BC’s natural resources,…

  • Poverty Reduction Act tabled by Opposition in the BC Leg

    The following news release was issued today by the BC Poverty Reduction Coalition: Opposition proposes BC Poverty Reduction and Economic Inclusion Act: Now is the time for bi-partisan collaboration in addressing the root causes of poverty (British Columbia) Today in the BC Legislature, the Official Opposition (MLA Michelle Mungall) introduced…

  • Growing Gap

    30 Reasons for Better Pay

    Watch the video below and click here to visit CCPA-Ontario’s Working For A Living website—a storytelling project to convey the value of a decent minimum wage and a living wage.  30 Reasons for Better Pay

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    La mondialisation, les accords commerciaux et les médicaments

    CLIQUEZ ICI POUR CONSULTER LE RAPPORT. Les concessions du gouvernement canadien face aux grandes sociétés pharmaceutiques multinationales, y compris le prolongement à vingt ans de leur monopole sur les nouveaux médicaments, ont eu pour effet de faire grimper en flèche le coût des ordonnances médicales, éventuellement de bloquer la création…

  • BC’s ferry tendering sailing in wrong direction

    Buying Canadian is no longer government policy–at least not in British Columbia. The BC provincial cabinet has directed the BC Ferry Corporation to initiate, for the first time in its 43-year history, a completely open international tendering process for all ferry refits and new vessel procurement. This policy shift appears…

  • November 2001: Exporting Destruction

    Report says EDC is putting people and the environment at risk The Canadian government’s Export Development Corporation (EDC) is assisting eight environmentally and socially disastrous projects in the Third World, says a recent report. These are the Antamina mine in Peru, the Chamera I and II dams in India, the…

  • Education Project

    Our Schools/Our Selves: Fall 2001

    DIRT(1) Cheap: Students for sale and the tilting of a scale Abstract This paper illustrates how parents, teachers and school administrators have been quietly and unknowingly enlisted as accomplices in the sale of children to commercial interests. This facet of the economic imperative is obscured by the siren call of…

  • How many will vote in the November 2014 local government elections?

    In BC’s last local government elections in 2011 less than 30% of people bothered to vote.  CivicInfoBC has a handy list of turnout information for all of our local governments here. I was curious about how this compared to local election turnout in other provinces. I don’t have turnout information…

  • Prominent economists challenge rationale for privatizing Hydro One

    (Toronto) In a report released today, three prominent economists throw cold water on the “business case” that the provincial government has offered for privatizing Hydro One. The authors, Myron Gordon, Doug Peters, and Mike McCracken, examine the arguments being made for selling the province’s electricity and distribution systems to private…