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  • December 2006: Global Warming, Global Wording

    Most government “action” on climate change just rhetoric There is historical precedent for re-naming the purported Clean Air Act devised by the federal Conservative government. It should be called the Clean Air Procrastination Act. We start by going back to Confucius, who spoke of the need for the “rectification of…

  • February 2008: Time For Environmental Keynesianism

    Planet Earth can be saved. Susan George tells us how. Over the past four or five years, as the CCPA’s senior editor, I’ve probably read at least 500 articles and essays on climate change and its threat to life on this planet. Many of the articles were written by eminent…

  • Who is Buying the Farm?

    Farmland Investment Patterns In Saskatchewan, 2003-14 Download 733.39 KB12 pages The question of who should get the right to own farmland in Saskatchewan has been a controversial one in recent years. The sale of $128 million in farmland holdings to the Canada Pension Plan in 2014 caused enough concern to…

  • 5.2 million reasons the fossil fuel industry has the BC government’s ear

    The problem of corporate influence in politics and government is heating up in BC as we head towards the May election. 2017 kicked off with an explosive story in the New York Times, aptly titled “British Columbia: The Wild West of Canadian Political Cash.” The story drew widespread attention to…

  • The Monitor, March/April 2017

    The Corporate Mapping Project Download 7.56 MB This issue of the Monitor features a number of articles and new research coming out of the Corporate Mapping Project, an exciting joint initiative of the University of Victoria, the CCPA’s B.C. and Saskatchewan offices, and the Parkland Institute in Alberta that is…

  • April 2007: The World Social Forum in Nairobi

    African activists lead resistance to Western plundering and imperialism Held in Africa for the first time, the World Social Forum (WSF) brought 66,000 people to Nairobi, Kenya, from 110 countries and highlighted the continent’s many anti-imperialist struggles. In a united voice, Africans said no to U.S. neo-colonialism, World Bank/IMF economic…

  • Panhandling should not be criminalized, says study

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA—Restrictions on peaceful panhandling—such as City of Winnipeg Bylaw No. 128/2005—constitute an illegitimate use of state power, says a study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. The study, by Arthur Schafer, director of the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics at the…

  • The rise and fall of climate action in BC

    It was a decade ago, in the February 13, 2007 Speech from the Throne, when the BC government launched into a frenzy of climate action never before seen in the province. Almost all of the BC government’s current “climate leadership” claims – so heavily promoted in a pre-election advertising spree…

  • December 2004: Medicare Still on Life-Support

    Health accord flawed by poor accountability and enforcement The health care accord reached last September by the federal, provincial, and territorial first ministers is a better deal than those signed in 2000 and 2003, but suffers from the same flaws: poor accountability, reporting, and enforcement. Despite this agreement, Medicare is…

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    Extracted Carbon

    Re-examining Canada’s contribution to climate change through fossil fuel exports Download 2.8 MB 34 pages This study re-examines Canada’s contribution to global climate change in light of the Paris Agreement by looking at extracted carbon—the total amount of fossil fuels removed from Canadian soil that ends up in the atmosphere—whether…

  • Refocusing the Abortion Debate

    Despite legalization, women face more barriers to abortion For the past year, Canadian national news outlets have led a distracting narrative about the status of abortion in Canada. They have focused almost solely on covering two motions in the House of Commons — motions with the potential to reopen the…

  • On the Abuse of Language: “Modernizing” Labour Relations

    The government of Saskatchewan is currently undertaking a controversial overhaul of the province’s labour legislation into the mammoth omnibus Bill 85. But those that might be concerned about the rather rash decision to overturn 107 years of labour legislation in the period of a few months need not worry, because…