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  • Economic Security Project (BC)

    Workplace Rights for Immigrants in BC

    The Case of Filipino Workers Download 1.18 MB Attachments Workplace Rights for Immigrants in BC: The Case of Filipino Workers – Summary False promises for recent immigrants – News Release (Simplified Chinese) False promises for recent immigrants – News Release (Traditional Chinese) False promises for recent immigrants – News Release…

  • Resource Economics Project (BC)

    Fracking has no place near critical dams or reservoirs

    Last year, a dubious record was set when a magnitude 4.6 earthquake was triggered near Fort St. John during a natural gas industry fracking operation. The tremor was just the latest to be linked to the controversial brute force gas extraction technique, and almost certainly was noted at BC Hydro’s…

  • March 2008: The New Green Superpower

    European Union leading the way in eco-friendly economics The ancient Chinese believed that a cosmic force, the Will of Heaven, controlled the rise and fall of their imperial dynasties. As soon as an emperor failed to act in accord with the laws of nature, also called the Tao, the Mandate…

  • 100 hours on the line

    We spent five weeks on the picket line–100 hours–during the longest strike in the 50-year history of Ontario community colleges. Was it worth it? Absolutely. I have wanted to be a teacher for as long as I can remember. For many educators, the calling to teach is strong. It is…

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    The Petro State Lackey: How BC’s zest for natural gas fuels Alberta’s oil sands

    In the past year, an energy dispute for the ages has played out in Canada, culminating in the federal government announcing that it will buy an aging oil pipeline for $4.5 billion and then twin it with a new high-capacity pipeline that would move massive amounts of diluted bitumen from…

  • Economic Security Project (BC)

    Bill 48 strips workers of their basic rights

    Study says bill should be repealed, and minimum employment standards restored for all workers READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Vancouver – Legislation that allows employers to “opt out” of minimum legal employment standards has resulted in substandard and unfair working conditions and may be unconstitutional, according to a study released…

  • Reducing the space for democracy – one speaker from the CCPA’s 30th anniversary

    Last week I was lucky enough to join 250 people in Ottawa for a daylong conference to honour the 30th anniversary of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.  Nine different speakers and two intelligent moderators focused the audience on the democratic and economic challenges we face as a Canadians and…

  • Labour Matters

    The Monitor, May/June 2023

    The Labour Issue: Rebuilding the working class Download 3.85 MB Browse the latest edition of The Monitor online here On International Workers’ Day, we celebrate the power of workers—together, we have the power to fundamentally transform the economy. That’s why this issue of the Monitor focuses on labour power. In…

  • Social Watch

    Social Watch 2008: Rights is the Answer

    Canada: Rights, budgets and building alternatives Download 108.1 KB2 pages

  • The Monitor, March/April 2021

    One year later Download 5.4 MB “More than an infectious pathogen,” writes Michal Rozworski in his feature analysis for this issue, “the novel coronavirus is a very harsh mirror held up to pre-pandemic reality… It is exposing the true cost of hollowed-out public services, debilitated trade unions, and cross-cutting economic…

  • Beyond Recovery

    Cooking, cleaning, and caring

    COVID-19, essential labour, and the experiences of immigrant and migrant women in Nova Scotia

    At three months [once her work permit had been secured], I convinced myself that I was an adolescent, even if I was 50 years old, I was an adolescent finding my first job because I didn’t speak English. I spoke to my [English] teacher and she said, here is one,…

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    Threatened caribou further endangered: Suppressed audit shows Oil and Gas Commission undermining provincial efforts to save species

    On an April morning in 2014, members of the Fort Nelson First Nation tucked into a helicopter to begin a day of flying to fossil fuel company operations in their territory. The Nation’s lands are part of the expansive Treaty 8 territory that includes northeast British Columbia. A professional biologist…