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  • Old-growth deferrals and the elephant in the room: we’re out of trees to cut thanks to failed provincial policies

    No one should be surprised that the British Columbia government’s decision to potentially defer logging in 26,000 square kilometres of old-growth forest angered many and pleased few. First Nation leaders were highly critical of the incredibly short, 30-day turnaround that the government imposed on them to respond to the deferral…

  • Encana Sunrise gas plant near Farmington. © Garth Lenz

    How clean is a BC that subsidizes accelerated fossil fuel extraction?

    When the provincial government unveiled its new climate plan late last year, Environment Minister George Heyman, Green Party leader Andrew Weaver and Premier John Horgan presented a happy, united front as ceremonies got underway at Vancouver’s main library. But the biggest smiles of the day may have been on the…

  • L’insolvabilité de l’Université Laurentienne reflète une crise structurelle du système universitaire néolibéral en Ontario

    Les gouvernements ontariens ont successivement réduit leurs subventions publiques envers les revenus d’exploitation des universités d’environ 80 % en 1980 à environ 50 % en 2004, et à seulement 38 % en 2017.

    Les gouvernements ontariens ont successivement réduit leurs subventions publiques envers les revenus d’exploitation des universités d’environ 80 % en 1980 à environ 50 % en 2004, et à seulement 38 % en 2017.

  • China’s transport project meets stiff resistance in Balochistan

    The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, part of China’s BELT and Road Initiative, has met fierce resistance in Pakistan’s Balochistan province. Here, CPEC is seen as unlawful occupation of Baloch land that contravenes international human rights law.

    The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, part of China’s BELT and Road Initiative, has met fierce resistance in Pakistan’s Balochistan province. Here, CPEC is seen as unlawful occupation of Baloch land that contravenes international human rights law.

  • What we deserve

    Warren Urquhart discusses two important digital rights for Canadians

    Warren Urquhart discusses two important digital rights for Canadians

  • The Monitor, Mar/Apr 2020

    Green New Deal, meet the Alternative Federal Budget Download 4.58 MB The idea of a Green New Deal—a radical and comprehensive transformation of the economy to cut greenhouse gas emissions while tackling inequality—has been gaining steam as an organizing principle for the environmental and social justice movements. Yet there are…

  • Proposed human rights legislation gets failing grade

    For the second time in twenty years, the Government of British Columbia has decided to abolish its Human Rights Commission. If the draft legislation set out in Bill 53 passes, the Commission will be erased again, this time in the name of providing British Columbians with a new, more efficient…

  • uber eats delivery person of colour on their bike looking down on their phone

    New protections for BC platform workers entrench racism

    In November 2023, the BC Ministry of Labour announced new employment standards that claim to “bring fairness” to the estimated 40,000 ride-hail and food-delivery workers in BC. The move comes after a year of public engagement with platform workers, platform companies and labour experts, which brought to the fore the…

  • Safe Passage

    Migrant Worker Rights in Saskatchewan Download 2.26 MB20 pages Saskatchewan’s migrant workers rights regime has been characterized as a “positive national standard” for the rest of the country. Introducing the legislation in 2012, then-Minister of the Economy Bill Boyd argued it would “position Saskatchewan as having the most comprehensive protection…

  • The Struggle Continues

    Indigenous peoples still suffering from rights violations Indigenous women today work with many issues ranging from domestic violence, youth gangs, child welfare issues, land rights, right through to helping frame the 1995 Bejing Declaration at the Fourth World Conference for Women. The Beijing Declaration was described as the most significant…

  • A pile of wood pellets is shown in front of a cross-section view of a stack of logs.

    Trees to pellets? Scarred by two previous resource industry boom and busts, pivotal decisions lie ahead for community of Fort Nelson

    The residents of Fort Nelson know better than most rural British Columbians about the harsh economic realities of resource dependency. It is now 13 years since the forest industry ditched the community in dramatic fashion when Canfor Corp. ceased all its local operations in the region and closed its plywood…

  • May 2005: Canadian Workers’ Rights Assaulted

    Collective bargaining more an illusion than a right Based on the premise that labour rights are human rights, Canadians have seen a serious erosion of a fundamental and universal human right in the past two decades—their right to organize into a union and engage in full and free collective bargaining. …