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  • Canada 150: Reconciling who we are with who we want to be

    We all want to feel good about what Canada stands for. From progress on LGBTQ rights, to communities coming together to support new immigrants, to modest steps toward reconciliation, there are reasons to be proud of how far we’ve come in 2017. But are we prepared to move beyond pride—to…

  • Labour Matters

    Fast Facts: Canada’s Long-Term Care Workers on the Front Lines of the COVID-19 Pandemic

    The COVID-19 pandemic has in less than four months spread throughout the globe and altered both the daily lives of citizens and the economy of many countries, including Canada. Media reports through all platforms cover COVID-19 extensively, in fact there is not much else in the news these days.  While…

  • What happened to the National Housing Strategy?

    Launched in 2017, the National Housing Strategy (NHS) was billed as a major re-engagement by the federal government on affordable housing after more than two decades on the sidelines. Starting with a headline commitment of $40 billion when first announced and supplemented in subsequent budgets, the NHS is now ostensibly…

  • The Monitor, March/April 2016

    Reconciliation Download 6.55 MB The Truth and Reconciliation Commission issued an interim report and 94 “calls to action” in June 2015. The Indian Residential Schools Program was, it declared, part of a Canadian policy to “eliminate Aboriginal governments; ignore Aboriginal rights; terminate the Treaties; and, through a process of assimilation,…

  • Rights-Based Legal Aid

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  • An unauthorized Progress Energy dam where millions of gallons of freshwater was found impounded in early April. It is among “dozens" of unpermitted dams spread across northern BC, a CCPA investigation has found.

    A Dam Big Problem: Regulatory breakdown as fracking companies in BC’s northeast build dozens of unauthorized dams

    A subsidiary of Petronas, the Malaysian state-owned petro giant courted by the BC government, has built at least 16 unauthorized dams in northern BC to trap hundreds of millions of gallons of water used in its controversial fracking operations. The 16 dams are among “dozens” that have been built by…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    Canada is wrong to think we need a free trade deal with Mercosur

    Prime Minister Trudeau and Brazilian President Michel Temer in July 2017. I was invited to appear before a parliamentary trade committee last week on behalf of the CCPA to discuss a possible Canadian free trade agreement (FTA) with the Mercosur countries. I must say that, while CCPA is always happy…

  • June 2002: A U.S.-Financed Military Dictatorship

    Pakistan has long, bloody history as terrorist arm of U.S. The United States’ choice of Pakistan as an ally in its “war on terrorism” provides the spectacle of the two leading terrorist states on Earth “fighting terrorism.” The U.S. has killed more than eight million people in the Third World…

  • Fast Facts: Wealth Care vs Health Care

    The debate around the private financing of Canada’s health care system has recently been revived as one of a series of video shorts on human rights issues in Winnipeg’s Canadian Museum of Human Rights. It discusses a Supreme Court hearing in which Quebec’s prohibition on private insurance to cover procedures…

  • Never free, never cleared

    Canada’s ongoing terror obsession Two Canadian judicial decisions released in late May remind us that national security is incompatible with democracy: the former almost always trumps the latter. When doubts are raised about the fragility of democratic rights, as they were in the cases of Ottawa residents Mohamed Harkat and…

  • Economic Security Project (BC)

    Harvest of Shame

    Especially in the spring and summer, British Columbians enjoy fruits and vegetables grown in the Fraser Valley. But consumers may know little about the people who cultivate and harvest the food we eat. Ironically, at a time of general labour shortages, the BC government has rolled back employment protections for…

  • Access to Knowledge Restricted

    Intellectual property protection primarily protects profits Affordable access to food, pharmaceuticals, and scientific advancement is essential for the well-being of Canadians and society in general. Intellectual property (IP) protection is one area or policy that has the ability to jeopardize this access.  Unfortunately, the policies that govern IP—the regulations that…