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  • Canadian investors need to stop suing foreign governments over environmental-friendly policies

    Canadian corporations are taking advantage of Canada’s free trade and investment agreements to undermine environmental policies in developing countries. And it’s putting the global fight against climate change–and Canada’s international reputation–at risk. Using a little-known legal mechanism called investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), foreign investors can sue governments to claim compensation…

  • Site C is not necessary and if completed would raise British Columbians’ Hydro bills: submission

    CCPA-BC submission reconsiders the economics of Site C dam READ THE FULL SUBMISSION HERE. Vancouver–The Site C dam is not necessary, and moving forward to completion is likely to have adverse impacts on BC Hydro and ratepayers of all classes. That is the conclusion of a submission to the BC…

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    11 steps toward a more just society for Budgets ‘22 and beyond

    As a fourth wave of COVID-19 ramps up, the impact of the pandemic on the economy, policymaking and budgets has not gone away. More broadly, government responses to the pandemic at both the national and provincial levels have generally been seen as a success. Much like in WWII, this appears…

  • Photo: Close up of a woman’s headband, beaded by Saulteau First Nation artist Della Owens. Della told Amnesty International that, “traditionally, when someone wasn’t healthy and women got together to bead, we’d say a prayer with each bead we sewed.” © Amnesty International

    What BC’s energy industry has to do with violence against Indigenous women

    The following post was adapted from the executive summary of Out of sight, out of mind: Gender, indigenous rights, and energy development in British Columbia, Canada. “It’s not a pity story. We’re not looking for sympathy. But the public has to recognize that this is a disaster in the making.” —Norma…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    Beyond Neoliberalism: Toward a Trade Agenda for People and the Planet

    The “Beyond Neoliberalism” workshop in Ottawa on October 30, 2019 was co-organized by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Trade Justice Network and Institute for Policy Studies, with support from Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung-New York. As a follow-up to the publication of the report Beyond NAFTA 2.0, the goal of the…

  • The Monitor, January/February 2019

    The Right to the City Download 7.27 MB Ten years ago the political geographer David Harvey wrote, “The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is…one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.” With roots in 1960s civil rights struggles, Henri Levebvre’s concept of…

  • WSÁNEĆ chief David Latess, middle, with Tommy Paul and Chief Edward Jim, circa 1922. COURTESY ROYAL B.C. MUSEUM, PN 11743.

    Indigenous resurgence in a province like no other

    After 30 years of treaty talks, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission findings, and the adoption of the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, First Nations still face racism on a systemic basis. Can Indigenous People ever find justice in this province? John Price and Nicholas XEMŦOLTW̱ Claxton,…

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  • New labour legislation to continue gig worker precarity

    Gig work is widely recognized as having all of the characteristics of precarious employment: typically temporary, part-time or casual, low paid, lacking in predictable work hours and job security without health and welfare benefits and protections.  Research into precarious gig work in BC has revealed that app-based ride-hail and food…

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    Site C’s biggest beneficiary? Natural gas companies, not us.

    This post originally appeared on DeSmog Canada. On January 20, BC Hydro issued a press release singing the praises of a new hydro transmission line not far from where preliminary work has begun to build the $9-billion Site C dam. The release, headlined “New transmission line to power development in…

  • Burning issues for Metro Vancouver

    The front page story of today’s Vancouver Sun takes on Metro Vancouver’s waste incineration facility in Burnaby. The Fraser Valley Regional District has been strongly opposed to a new proposed incinerator planned by Metro, and likewise has expressed its concerns about air quality in regards to the Burnaby facility. Its…

  • Model Sites for Rural Midwifery in Nova Scotia: Built to Fail?

    On Monday morning, there is a rally planned to try and save the South Shore Community Midwives, one of Nova Scotia’s rural midwifery programs. The program has been suspended for three weeks and its long term survival is in question. The current crisis presents an opportunity to rethink the program’s…