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  • Climate Justice Project

    Climate damages litigation could cost Canadian oil & gas companies billions: study

    OTTAWA—Canadian oil and gas companies could be liable for billions of dollars of damages for their contribution to climate change, according a study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) and West Coast Environmental Law (West Coast) that analyzes scenarios in which the legal landscape concerning climate…

  • Good Economy Project

    Where do provincial by-election candidates stand on employment standards?

    The February 2 by-elections in Vancouver-Mount Pleasant and Coquitlam-Burke Mountain offer an opportunity for candidates to clarify their parties’ positions on an important, often neglected, area of government policy – employment standards legislation. The BC Employment Standards Act governs the conditions in which people do paid work, and it is…

  • Canadian military spending higher than any time since WWII: study

    OTTAWA—Twelve years of budget increases have left Canadian military spending higher than at any time since the end of the Second World War, says a study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). According to the study, by Bill Robinson, Senior Advisor with the Rideau Institute, Canada…

  • UNSPUN: Supporting Refugee Resettlement Beyond the Syrian Rufugee Crisis

    The Syrian refugee crisis has attracted unprecedented political attention and, arguably, corresponding political will in Canada.  In November 2015, the Province of Manitoba publicly stated it could welcome 1,500 to 2,000 of the 25,000 Syrian refugees that the federal Liberal government promised to resettle in Canada over a short period…

  • Labour Matters
    Trade Union Research Collective

    The Challenges Facing Labour

    Formidable challenges face Canada’s labour movement. Meeting these requires organized labour to reclaim its historic role as the progressive voice of all working people, and as an active participant in broader struggles for social justice. The ChallengeThe proportion of working people who are unionized has collapsed in the U.S.A. In…

  • What a Wildrose Victory May Mean for Saskatchewan

    If recent polling is to be believed, Alberta’s ultra-conservative Wildrose Party looks poised to capture an electoral majority in the upcoming provincial election only a few years after its creation. While we could just chalk this up to Alberta’s peculiar penchant for right-wing populism within it’s unique political culture and shrug our…

  • Labour Matters
    Trade Union Research Collective

    Fast Facts: Hostile Labour Relations Cause Unnecessary Conflict with Brandon’s Public Sector Workers

    Last week, the Manitoba Labour Board reinstated Brandon Professional Fire Fighters/Paramedics Association president Wade Ritchie in his job as a fire fighter.  The city of Brandon had fired Ritchie in January, claiming he had made “reckless and defamatory statements” that justified his termination.  The Union disagreed, on the grounds that…

  • Corporate Mapping Project

    Canada’s Carbon Conundrum and the Difficult Path Forward

    Since the first oil well was drilled in 1859 humans have been on a roll. Global population has increased more than six-fold and energy use per capita has grown more than nine-fold. Accompanying this explosive growth in energy use was unprecedented economic expansion— since 1965 global GDP has grown 6.8-fold…

  • July 2005: Peak Oil and the End of Globalization

    U.S. dependence on oil drives its efforts to control what’s left When Paul Martin met with George Bush and Vicente Fox in Texas last March to chart further continental integration (while Martin’s neo-liberal competitor for the Liberal Party crown, John Manley, was pushing for even further subordination of Canada’s economic…

  • CCPA-BC launches new documentary: The Good Life – The Green Life

    Happy to announce that the CCPA-BC has released its third documentary film, a video series entitled The Good Life – The Green Life. This project has been about two years in the making, led by our communications director Shannon Daub. I encourage you to visit the special website created for…

  • British Columbia’s largest raw log exporters make pitch to deregulate

    Federal government would do well to resist call by Mosaic Forest Management, before opportunities to process wood in province are further compromised British Columbia’s forest industry was in trouble long before anyone had heard the name of the virus now seared into our brains.  Months before COVID-19 appeared, forest companies…

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    March 2005: The Suicidal Cult of Individualism

    Rich may learn too late that greed is self-destructive The poet Robert Frost speculated on whether the world would be ended by fire or ice, which today could probably be translated into either a nuclear holocaust or an ecological collapse. I’m starting to wonder, however, if perhaps the end of…