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  • BC Solutions: News and commentary from the CCPA’s BC Office

    January 2019 Download 2.99 MB12 pages In this issue: Implementing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in BC Happy retirement, Dianne Novlan! BC’s shiny new climate plan: A look under the hood A conversation with new CCPA–BC Director Shannon Daub Recipients of the 2018 Power of Youth…

  • Fast Facts: What is a CETA, and why should we be worried about it?

    The Canadian Government is well down the road, with the European Union, towards negotiating a Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).  They tell us that CETA will have everything that NAFTA has, plus more.  They say that like it’s a good thing.  But the more one looks at this Comprehensive…

  • July 2004: The Case for Nuclear Disarmament

    U.S. pre-emptive strike policy could trigger new nuclear arms race [At the most recent (53rd) Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs in Halifax, Sir Joseph Rotblat, aged 94, the organization’s President Emeritus, delivered a speech on “The Nuclear Issue: Pugwash and the Bush Policies.” His incisive analysis drew a…

  • Fast Facts: A welcoming home for refugees – removing the stigma and increasing the support

    Refugees across Canada are facing a structural housing crisis.  Stagnant shelter allowances for the Government Assisted Refugees  eligible to receive them,  a federal retreat from social housing provision, and skyrocketing housing costs in numerous Canadian cities since the early 1990s, have all contributed to this.   The Manitoba Interfaith Immigration Council…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    L’AECG mènera à une hausse du coût des médicaments

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT Ottawa—L’Accord économique et commercial global entre le Canada et l’Union européenne (AECG) mènera à une hausse significative du coût des médicaments selon une étude publiée aujourd’hui par le Centre canadien de politiques alternatives (CCPA). L’étude examine les dernières révélations concernant l’accord provisoire et…

  • #BoycottTims? It’s about time.

    Twitter was raging against Tim Hortons last Thursday. According to the Ottawa Sun, for much of the day the hottest trending topic in Canada was #BoycottTims. It’s about time, I thought to myself, these allegations have been in the news for at least a couple of years. Back in 2013,…

  • Social Watch

    Report lambastes debt reduction target

    Accuses Canada of squandering economic opportunity READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA – Canada is hoarding unprecedented economic wealth while human insecurity – at home and abroad – deepens, says a new international report. Squandering Canada’s Surplus, a report to Social Watch, an international citizens’ watchdog group, is critical of…

  • April 2004: Cutting Health-Care Down to Size

    We need to learn that good health requires more than good medicine Health-care practitioners with their treatment and advice loom large in the subject of health, but in fact their activity is only one of many other factors that contribute to the level of our well-being. Health-care practitioners have seldom…

  • Deconstructing BC Hydro’s Rate Increase

    When the government imposed its Energy Plan on BC Hydro it never bothered to estimate the costs (or for that matter the benefits) of what it hoped to achieve. Ardent supporters of that Plan, like my good friend Mark Jaccard, constructed scenarios under which it would make sense to force…

  • Presentation to the Standing Committee on Justice and Social Policy On Bill 8

    Commitment to the Future of Medicare Act Thank you for this opportunity to speak to Bill 8 – a Bill that seeks to protect Ontarians’ right to universal public health care. I am an economist based in Toronto, and a research associate with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives based…

  • Corporate Mapping Project

    Who Benefits from Caribou Decline

    Download 2.02 MB48 pages This report looks at the promised economic benefits of coal mining projects in northeastern British Columbia and concludes that the jobs, tax revenues and production activity estimates are wildly overstated, while pledges to protect vulnerable wildlife species have not been met. The woodland caribou—a distinct population called…

  • Atlantica concept must be put on map for public discussion

    I suspect that few Atlantic Canadians would argue against the potential benefits of improving trade ties with our New England neighbours. So the controversy surrounding proposals for an “Atlantica” trade zone spanning Atlantic Canada and northern New England may come as a surprise. However, a study released last week by…