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  • Pipeline politics and the 2015 election

    In early 2012, then Natural Resource Minister Joe Oliver dropped a bombshell on BC. He asserted that Enbridge’s proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline was in the national interest, but, he warned, environmental and other radical groups were undermining this effort to diversify Canada’s export markets.If anything, Oliver’s letter only inflamed opposition…

  • The loss of a kind and powerful person – Sandy Cameron

    We at the CCPA are saddened by the recent death of Sandy Cameron. Sandy was one of the kindest and most thoughtful people I’ve ever met. And he was a powerful person — not in the sense of formal power, but in the sense of inspiring others through his words…

  • Saskatchewan labour laws violate Charter: Study

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Regina — The Saskatchewan office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is releasing University of Regina business administration professor S. Muthu’s study, Restoring the Bargain: Contesting the Constitutionality of the Amendments to the Saskatchewan Trade Union Act, a thorough analysis of the constitutionality of…

  • New voices in support of a BC poverty reduction plan

    Two important new voices joined the call for a BC poverty reduction plan in the last couple days. First, on Tuesday, BC Provincial Health Officer Perry Kendall released a special report entitled Investing in Prevention. The report received quite a lot of media attention. However, most of the coverage dealt…

  • Pénurie ou pas, le Canada est tenu de maintenir ses exportations de gaz naturel et de pétrole vers les États-Unis

    CLIQUEZ ICI POUR CONSULTER LE RAPPORT. EDMONTON – En vertu de l’ALÉNA, même si le Canada est confronté à une pénurie en gaz naturel et qu’il importe 49 % du pétrole qu’il consomme, il lui est défendu de diminuer ses exportations actuelles de pétrole et de gaz naturel vers les…

  • October 2002: The Ravaging of Africa

    Western neo-colonialism fuels wars, plundering of resources The G8 Summit held in Kananaskis in June, pledged $6 billion dollars a year in so-called aid to Africa by 2006. The low figure caused Phil Twyford of Oxfam to say “We’re extremely disappointed by this wasted opportunity. They’re offering peanuts to Africa…

  • Do we need a business case for poverty reduction?

    I was reading up on poverty reduction policies and I came across a paragraph by Dalhousie University economics professor Lars Osberg that was just begging to be shared and discussed on PolicyNote:

  • Public Interest Research Project (BC)

    Women paying price of legal services cutbacks

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) As a result of legal aid cuts women are losing custody of their children, giving up valid legal rights to support, and being subjected to litigation harassment, according to a new report. It finds that women are paying a greater price for…

  • Reaction to Chinese migrants exposes globalization’s double-standard

    Nothing lays bare more clearly the contradictions of free-market globalization than the hysterical and often ugly reaction to the arrival of the Chinese migrant ships on BC’s coast. Perhaps the recent Chinese arrivals are genuine convention refugees (a definite possibility given China’s human rights record), or perhaps they are mainly…

  • Fast Facts: Réseau de santé « parallèle » : le loup dans la bergerie

    Cet article de Fast Facts a été publié le 19 février dans le Winnipeg Free Press. Presque en même temps, les médias parlaient du Rapport Castonguay au Québec. Ce rapport faisait suite à la décision rendue par une faible majorité en Cour suprême, l’année précédente, et qui ouvrait la voie…

  • The Monitor, July/August 2018

    Work in Transition Download 6.93 MB Here at the CCPA, we’re constantly thinking about what needs to change in our lives, our economy and our ways of governing to make society more equitable, and life more fulfilling, for the greatest number of people. Broadly speaking, you could say our mandate…

  • The Growth of Degrowth (Part 2)

    Vital degrowth movement boosted at Barcelona conference Whether the quest is for deeper democracy, protection of the planet, or enrichment of our way of living, the degrowth process starts with reducing the use of natural resources and energy. The moment is now, since we’re already in a period of degrowth and…