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  • Resource Economics Project (BC)

    The real reason the BC government is spending $9 billion on Site C

    From a lookout high atop a windswept bluff, the scale of work already underway at Site C is daunting. Large tracts of boreal forest logged. Vast amounts of topsoil stripped away for a trailer city to house hundreds of workers. Gravel from the fish-bearing river excavated to build a roadbed…

  • Financing public housing: how a massive expansion of rental homes can literally pay for itself

    In the face of a mounting housing crisis, what if BC could massively increase public investment in below-market rental housing—and if that upfront investment could literally pay for itself, with no increase to taxpayer-supported debt? While this might sound too good to be true, it simply follows from the basic…

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    Federal wealth tax would raise over $30 billion in first year: economist

    VANCOUVER —A federal wealth tax could provide ongoing revenue for much-needed investments in public programs and help rein in extreme economic inequality, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives BC Office’s latest modelling for such a tax shows. Senior economist Alex Hemingway modelled revenues for a Canadian wealth tax applying to…

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    Why Canada still needs a wealth tax—and what it could fund

    The rise of extreme inequality has provoked growing calls for an annual wealth tax on the super-rich around the world, and Canada is no exception. Backed by a growing body of economic research, proposals for a wealth tax have high levels of support among Canadians across party lines. Yet, an…

  • Close up of Apartment for Rent sign on a fence in front of a house.

    Submission to Law Amendments on BILL NO. 262: Interim Residential Rental Increase Cap Act

    Submitted April 3rd, 2023, by Catherine Leviten-Reid and Christine Saulnier Download 296.86 KB4 pages Before the emergency pandemic cap and temporary extensions, Nova Scotia had been without rent controls since they were eliminated in 1993 when the province faced vacancy rates as high as 12%.[i] Due to the abolishment of…

  • Time to scale up non-market housing in BC

    Time to scale up: next steps for non-market housing in BC

    Despite some positive policy moves, BC is still not meeting the demands of the housing crisis. We need more non-market housing in BC now.

  • Eliminate and replace it: A better way to reform the basic personal tax amount

    The new federal Liberal minority government has signalled that a tax cut will be its first order of policy business. That’s a shame because this tax cut will do little for those with low incomes while providing the most benefit to higher income households—and there are better ways to benefit…

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    As wood pellet exports to Japan surge, BC’s primary forests feel the strain

    In the land of the rising sun, the light of a setting sun glints so brightly on the shiny metal piping of Renova’s Ishinomaki Hibarino power plant that you have to shield your eyes. Located near the city of Sendai, north of Tokyo, the new thermal electricity plant is one…

  • The Real Crisis in Medicare

    Canada needs (and can afford) complete national health care Contrary to the alarm raised by Canada’s premiers, the Harper government’s abdication from its leadership role in health care does not constitute a crisis. Canada’s health care system has been under provincial jurisdiction since the Constitution Act, 1867, and the federal…

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    Climate change and energy issues in the 2017 BC election platforms

    From the fracking fields and Site C dam in BC’s northeast to an LNG terminal and Kinder Morgan’s pipeline and tanker expansion in the southwest, energy issues should figure prominently in BC’s 2017 election campaign. Climate change, the result of all that pollution from dirty energy development here and elsewhere,…

  • Ontario’s high-stakes election campaign: parties going “all in”

    Back in March, the Ontario Liberals put all of their chips on the table with their election-style provincial budget. They promised free child care, more support for dental care and drugs, and a reinvestment in health care—bankrolling it by deficit spending for the next six years. That left the opposition…

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    Leaked data reveals new threat to BC’s old growth forests

    BREAKING: officials in the Ministry of Forests have been working on a map that radically departs from the recommendations of a panel appointed by the provincial government to advise it on how to protect British Columbia’s imperiled old growth forests.