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  • The Middle East Revolution (VI)

    The U.S. ramps up its counterrevolution in the Middle East While withdrawing 39,000 troops from Iraq, the U.S. recently made clear that it was increasing its forces in the Persian Gulf. A New York Times article — U.S. Planning Troop Buildup in Gulf After Exit from Iraq – reported that…

  • Employment supports and labour market participation: 20th Anniversary retrospective

    From 2001 to 2003, BC’s new Liberal government instituted significant policy reforms in the delivery and governance of public services. In 2004, Simon Fraser University and the CCPA-BC secured a five-year Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Community-University Research Alliances (CURA) grant to research how those reforms…

  • Inside job: How BC Hydro customers wound up bankrolling private power companies

    The chickens have finally come home to roost on the previous BC government’s private power giveaway. The just-released provincial report by Ken Davidson on the costs of BC Hydro’s power purchases is a damning indictment of its electricity policies—policies whose exorbitant and wholly unnecessary costs will saddle BC ratepayers with…

  • The Monitor, March 2015

    Download 1.54 MB Click the button above to download this issue of The Monitor or click to read a selection of articles below: Bill C-51: A Legal Primer, by Clayton Ruby and Nader R. Hasan How small towns are driving Canada’s digital future, by Cynthia Khoo and Steve Anderson The misuses…

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    False advertising by the Alberta government and oil lobby

    As an Alberta-born and -raised earth scientist who has made a career studying fossil fuels and energy issues, I am dismayed at the bombardment of ‘fake news’ in print, online and TV ads from the Alberta government on the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion (TMX). These ads are repeated hourly on…

  • February 2007: War or Peace?

    Are Canadians near national tipping point in Afghanistan Last fall we passed the five-year mark of Canada’s military involvement in Afghanistan. Our Joint Task Force (JTF), Canada’s special-forces unit, has been active in that country since shortly after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. JTF soldiers transferred detainees to…

  • Towards a Family-Friendly Immigration System

    Refugees and Family Reunification Recently, the Federal Liberal Government announced immigration targets for 2017.  The total target for all immigrant classes remained stable at 300,000, but economic class immigrants were disproportionately prioritized. ‘Economic class’ immigrants increased from a target of 160,600 in 2016 to a target of 172,500.  ‘Family class’…

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    Inquiry needed into gig work in BC

    The BC government recently decided to permit the operation ride-hailing services, which are scheduled to begin before the end of the year. Other services, like the delivery of restaurant meals, use similar systems to dispatch workers. Yet the provincial government has yet to address a crucial element of this system—the…

  • Investor vs. State Arbitrations

    Suing governments a billion-dollar global corporate bonanza The North American Free Trade Agreement was the first of a New World Order of trade agreements designed — to borrow the words of the Trilateral Commission in 1975 — to repeal “an excess of democracy in the Western world.” It set a…

  • “Two Step” Immigration

    Canada’s new immigration system raises troubling issues Over the last 10 years, the barriers that immigrants to Canada face in integrating economically, socially, and politically have become relatively common knowledge. The taxi driver with a Ph.D. degree is the proverbial example. In reaction to growing labour market shortages and the…

  • Intellectual Property Rights and the Canadian Pharmaceutial Marketplace

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  • How fast can we get to 100% renewables?

    This piece draws on research and a presentation in Vancouver by Mark Jacobson from Stanford University, who delivered the 2018 Gideon Rosenbluth Memorial Lecture. You can listen to the audio or watch a recording of the live video stream below, and you can download Mark’s slides here (PDF). It is…