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  • Tax breaks and subsidies for BC LNG

    At the height of LNG-mania in 2013/14, high prices in Asia fueled a gold rush mentality in BC—based on shipping cheap BC gas to Asia for mega-profits. But those high prices proved only temporary, and by 2015 the economic case for LNG (liquified natural gas) turned on its head. The…

  • Nearly 200 arrests and counting

    Image: Rogue Collective (Flickr Creative Commons) The build started with a single West Coast cedar tree. In the early hours of March 10, against the backdrop of forest-covered Burnaby Mountain on the shores of B.C.’s Burrard Inlet, volunteers carried in wood planks and cement corner stones and set to work.…

  • Building a Stronger Foundation of Basic Workplace Rights for BC Workers

    CCPA-BC Response to the BC Law Institute Consultation Paper on the Employment Standards Act Download 1.54 MB 21 pages The CCPA-BC has a long track record of producing research and policy recommendations on employment standards. We have analyzed in depth the effects of the sweeping changes made in the early 2000s to…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    Le PTP pourrait entraîner une détérioration de la balance commerciale du Canada et affaiblir les secteurs à forte intensité de main-d’œuvre, selon une étude

    CLIQUEZ ICI POUR CONSULTER LE RAPPORT. OTTAWA – Pendant les consultations que mène le gouvernement fédéral sur le Partenariat transpacifique (PTP), une nouvelle étude du Centre canadien de politiques alternatives (CCPA) remet en question les immenses avantages commerciaux que le PTP est censé représenter pour le Canada. L’étude conclut que…

  • Three ways BC can make it easier for precarious workers to unionize

    The BC Labour Relations Code is being reviewed for the first time in over 15 years. Since the last comprehensive review, which took place in 2003, workers’ rights under the Code have been continuously eroded. The current review presents an important opportunity to reverse this trend by improving access to…

  • Elevating Indigenous women’s voices is critical to addressing gendered colonial violence

    [perfectpullquote align=”full” bordertop=”false” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””] “No one deserves the violence and pain we go through.” “Nothing changes because our lives are not valued and because people think violence against us is ‘normal’ and ‘how it is’.” “There are so many things we experience that most people who…

  • The Monitor, March/April 2019

    Direct Action and the Strike Download 6.5 MB This May, Canada marks the 100th anniversary of the Winnipeg General Strike, when tens of thousands of people walked off their jobs in sympathy and solidarity with building and metal trades workers whose employers were refusing to bargain for fair wages and…

  • Time to end the chill effect on Canadian charities

    The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has confirmed that the Canada Revenue Agency’s (CRA) crackdown on charitable political activity has been an arbitrary and unjustified infringement upon freedom of expression. It’s time for the federal government to act swiftly to close the book on a dark time in Canada’s democratic…

  • October 2007: Racism Remains A Problem

    Why are people of colour having trouble getting good jobs? A recent population projection study done for the Department of Canadian Heritage predicts that by 2017 one in every five residents of Canada will be a member of what the government defines as “a visible minority.” This means that, in…

  • November 2006: How Canadians “Protect” in Haiti

    Canada complicit in suppressing democracy in Haiti Does the Canadian-promoted “Responsibility to Protect” doctrine in Haiti include murder, rape, and threats of violence? That’s the question we should be asking Canadian officials after a study in the prestigious Lancet medical journal released at the end of August revealed there were…

  • Expansive aerial view of a pit mining project in Alberta's Oilsands near Fort McMurray.
    Corporate Mapping Project

    New report shines light on the state of fossil fuel industry in Eastern Canada – an overlooked region in energy transition debates

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT [HALIFAX/ Kjipuktuk, June 6, 2023] – Despite Eastern Canada being highly invested in oil and gas production, the region is often left out of energy policy discussions typically focused on Western provinces. A new report maps the extensive existing and proposed fossil fuel exploration,…

  • Warning sign near Progress Energy's largest unlicensed dam. Photo: Ben Parfitt.

    Numerous unlicensed dams found structurally unsound; remediation orders issued

    More than half of nearly 50 dams that fossil fuel companies built in recent years without first obtaining the proper permits had serious structural problems that could have caused many of them to fail. And now, BC’s Oil and Gas Commission (OGC), which appeared to be asleep at the switch…