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  • Public consultation down the drain as government comes to fracking industry’s aid

    It has been a year since word began to percolate in the Hudson’s Hope area that Talisman Energy Inc. was eying the Williston Reservoir a short distance east of town as a long-term source of water for use in developing its gas resources. Yet in the intervening months – months…

  • Decarbonizing BC homes and the price of gas

    Our climate justice framework for BC is to eliminate fossil fuels by 2040. In the household sector, this poses a significant challenge, not so much in terms of technology and knowledge, but because natural gas is much cheaper than electricity per unit of energy. Even though BC has among the…

  • Future government contract costs jump 50% in one year

    Although it has received some coverage in the media it is worth noting the eye-popping jump in the cost of long term contracts signed by the BC government in the last year. These contracts don’t go on the books as debt, but just like debt we will be responsible for…

  • Public Interest Research Project (BC)

    Denying income inequality won’t make it go away

    The May release of the 2006 Census data on earnings and incomes sparked a heated debate about inequality in Canada. Media commentators argued whether it was more informative to consider individual or families’ incomes, while others tried to convince us that market earnings are irrelevant since our system of taxes…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    The Proposed EU-Canada Trade Agreement Raises Health Concerns in Both Canada and European Union

    Download 98.47 KB 10 pages The European Union (EU) and Canada are currently negotiating a new Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) (European Commission 2011). In early 2010, the negotiating text was leaked and posted to the Trade Justice Network website, raising a variety of red flags for European member…

  • Public Interest Research Project (BC)

    Education on sale

    At what cost? This week, Vancouver is host to the “World Education Market.” According to the Reed Midem Organization, the show’s Paris-based organizer, this event is a unique opportunity for key players in the global education business “to create dynamic business partnerships and joint ventures.” With far more modest resources,…

  • Tall Tales at Tax Time: Meet Thomas and Colleen

    There is a nice little story tucked in to the pages of Canada’s Economic Action Plan 2013. It’s a sweet tale of Thomas and Colleen and their two children. (I like to imagine those little stick-figure stickers on the back of their mini-van waving hello to their friends in happy…

  • Canadians Aren’t Buying the Banksplaining

    So, am I the only parent of small children struck by the familiar tone of RBC’s Temporary Foreign Worker damage control message fiasco? In a CBC interview that was basically a clinic for how not to do PR, Chief Human Resources Officer Zabeen Hirji’s attempt at banksplaining sounded suspiciously like a Sharon, Lois and…

  • Fast Facts: Sustainable health care begins with the social determinants of health

    It’s time to get it right On May 13, 2011 the Conference Board of Canada announced the formation of the Canadian Alliance for Sustainable Health Care (CASHC) to “provide Canadian business leaders and policy makers with insightful, forward-looking, quantitative analysis of the sustainability of the Canadian health-care system and all…

  • Build a Better Nova Scotia: the Alternative Provincial Budget shows the way

    The Nova Scotia provincial government is set to introduce its promised balanced budget this year. The Nova Scotia Alternative Budget, released today, proposes some concrete choices rooted in Nova Scotia communities. Rather than pay down debt, the NS-APB prioritizes balancing the social debt threatening Nova Scotia. Can a budget really be…

  • On the Forest Fire Front Line: One Ecologist’s Take on What it Will Take to Safeguard Communities

    With one of the colder springs on record, many British Columbians quite naturally yearn for a good stretch of warm, dry weather. But for many people in the province, prolonged periods of hotter and drier weather are often far from welcome. That’s because when things get hot and dry they…

  • Lessons for Ottawa from Victoria, Lessons for Victoria from Ottawa

    Many Canadians have expressed fear about what our new national government, a majority elected by a 39% minority, will do now that it has four years of real power.  For those concerned Canadians, British Columbia offers a lesson. BC’s government has discovered from an independent study that their HST is…