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  • Resource Economics Project (BC)

    Fossil fuel companies broke numerous rules intended to protect threatened caribou, suppressed report shows

    VANCOUVER – BC’s Oil and Gas Commission sat on a damaging audit for nearly four years that showed companies that drill and frack for natural gas repeatedly broke rules intended to protect threatened boreal caribou. The document, obtained by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), underscores lax regulatory oversight…

  • Fast Facts: The government of Manitoba is failing Manitobans every step of the way in their pandemic response and needs to do better

    No one in the world has had all the answers, and there are bound to be mistakes and missteps. But the chronic lack of preparedness, slow responses and a legacy of austerity has resulted in more suffering in uncertain times. Without adequate investment in public health care now and into…

  • The politics of stalling

    What do same-sex marriage and the federal budget have in common?  We can’t figure it out either, but both issues are being sucked into the vortex of high parliamentary drama. Political parties (even renegade individuals within political parties) are exploiting both issues to indulge their political grandstanding. Threats are being…

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    Five lessons from BC’s horrific wildfire season

    In British Columbia, climate change is no longer something abstract for the future. The late June heat dome event—that claimed 500-600 lives—and the wildfires that followed confirm that climate change is a clear and present danger that’s not going away any time soon. As of September 28, some 867,000 hectares…

  • Canadian women among poorest of the poor

    We used to hear a lot about the feminization of poverty. It hasn’t been in the news much lately. Yet women remain among the poorest of the poor in Canada, and the percentage of women living in poverty is growing. Almost 19% of adult women are now poor – the…

  • New Generation of Thinkers Link Inequality, Innovation and Prosperity

    This guest blog was written by Mike Marin and Anouk Dey. It originally appeared in the Toronto Star on February 24. The authors are part of a team that produced the report Prospering Together (in English and in French). What do the Occupy Movement and Canadian software giant OpenText have in common? Most…

  • Discussions of foreign interference and national security can quickly become toxic

    Open Letter to the Right Honorable David Johnston, Independent Special Rapporteur, Government of Canada from the Advisory Group, Canada-China Focus. Signatories below. We are deeply concerned that discussions of foreign interference and national security can quickly become toxic as we have already seen in the accusations that a respected Chinese Canadian senator and…

  • Canada’s Ongoing Involvement in Dirty Wars

    Like the U.S., Canada is “outsourcing” warfare in Afghanistan The U.S. Congressional Research Service (CRS) published its latest of many reports last February, indicating that the United States has increasingly relied on Special Operations Forces to project force abroad throughout the Global War on Terror. The latest CRS report predicts…

  • The Weapons Makers On Display

    Canada’s war industries flog their wares at big arms bazaar The glittering opulence and sheer pageantry of the Middle East’s largest arms bazaar held recently in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates, was like an alchemist’s magic, transforming the dross display of the death-bestowing technologies into a grand…

  • Killer Pensions

    Pension funds force Canadians to invest in war industries In the microcosm of our daily lives, many Canadians make politically-conscious choices about what to buy. Whether it’s drinking fair trade tea or coffee, using eco-friendly cleaning products, eating locally-produced food, avoiding clothes made in sweatshops, or refusing to buy war-toys…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    TPP delivers unjustified benefits to foreign investors at public expense: study

    OTTAWA—The expanded rights granted to foreign investors in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) carry major risks for voters and taxpayers in TPP countries, says a study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. The study, by international investment treaty expert Gus Van Harten, examines the special privileges given to…

  • Fast Facts: Should Manitobans trust nuclear burial plans?

    First published in the Winnipeg Free Press January 23, 2018 There was a time when a plan to bury highly radioactive materials 500m from a river that provides drinking water and flows into Lake Winnipeg, would have attracted a fair bit of attention in Manitoba. Maybe even a mild uproar.…