Menu
Search results for: “site/human rights”
-
The Great Log Export Drain: BC government pursues elusive LNG dreams as more than 3,600 forest industry jobs lost to raw log exports
First of Two Parts Its members include the most powerful players in the province’s forest industry, companies that do the vast majority of all logging on British Columbia’s coast. Its website boasts of “innovative, high-tech” companies whose workers turn out “a growing array of forest and wood products.” But in…
-
Unsplash / Pixabay” style=”border-radius:0px;–objectFit:cover;–imagePosX:50%;–imagePosY:50%” decoding=”async” srcset=”https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/policynote-feb2017-tax-fairness-in-bc-hardly-300×141.jpg 300w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/policynote-feb2017-tax-fairness-in-bc-hardly-1024×480.jpg 1024w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/policynote-feb2017-tax-fairness-in-bc-hardly-768×360.jpg 768w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/policynote-feb2017-tax-fairness-in-bc-hardly.jpg 1280w” sizes=”(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px” />Tax fairness in BC? Hardly
Tax cuts disproportionately benefitted the richest 1% of British Columbians, write @IglikaIvanova & @1alexhemingway: https://t.co/iZbcztdPem pic.twitter.com/BavNnT2WWp — The CCPA–BC (@CCPA_BC) February 16, 2017 As we wait to hear more about the tax cuts coming in BC Budget 2017, it is important to remember what has happened to our provincial tax…
-
Fast Facts: Counting women in
A gender-based analysis of homelessness International Women’s Day (IWD) will be celebrated this weekend. Although progress has been made regarding women’s rights and equality, the basic right to a safe and affordable home will be out of reach for too many women across the globe and here in Manitoba. IWD…
-
Corporations are people too
Advocates of democratic electoral reform are really out of step. Ideas like proportional representation and advertising spending limits are so retro, so 2004. The fashionable electoral reform idea this year is to give corporations a real say. It’s time for individual citizens to share their electoral democracy with corporations to…
-
December 2001: An Unpunished War Criminal
Book review THE TRIAL OF HENRY KISSINGER by Christopher Hitchens, Verso, 2001, $35 (Book Review) “Kissinger is a thug, a crook, a liar and a murderer.”– Christopher Hitchens The United States government is the most violent in the world and since 1945 has killed upwards of eight million people in…
-
Fast Facts: Community Economic Development in Manitoba and the Inclusive Economy
Manitoba is a province of economic growth and economic disparity. It is a province with low unemployment rates, diverse development, and incredible resource wealth. On the flip side, Manitoba has continuously had some of the highest child poverty rates in Canada, and the highest homicide rates, and Winnipeg has been…
-
June 2007: The Wrong “Solution” To Pollution
Nuclear power won’t clean up the Alberta tar sands The very biggest environmental issue in Canada is the Alberta oil sands project. Though only partially developed as yet, it covers 138,000 square kilometers of northern Alberta–an area as large as the state of Florida. At yet, only the surface oil…
-
Government Not Enforcing Health Laws
The provincial government recently stated that user charges for emergency health care services provided at the new False Creek Urgent Care Centre are legal. Minister of Health George Abbott says he would not have any basis for legal action because the doctors providing urgent care at the clinic are from…
-
What should our government be spending money on?
One question that is missing from the public debate on deficits and debt is whether we’re getting the best bang for the stimulus buck. Even if we accept that it’s appropriate for governments to borrow and engage in deficit-financing during a recession, as I have argued here, we need to…
-
Fast Facts: Contracting Out Enhanced Home Care Program
Among the many recent changes by the Pallister government to health care was a contract with two private companies to operate the Enhanced Home Care Program (EHCP). This will provide community care to patients who can no longer benefit from acute hospital care, at an estimated total cost of $10.5M.…
-
Making Sense of the CETA
An analysis of the final text of the Canada–European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement Download 3.57 MB 128 pages This report demonstrates in detail how the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) deal is unbalanced, favouring large multinational corporations at the expense of consumers, the environment, and the greater…
-
February 2007: “More Time For Daddy”
Quebec leads the way with its new parental leave policy Leave related to the birth or adoption of a child includes maternity leave, paternity leave, and parental leave. In Canada, there was a change in parental leave in 2001, which basically extended the leave from six months to approximately one…
