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  • Inside job: How BC Hydro customers wound up bankrolling private power companies

    The chickens have finally come home to roost on the previous BC government’s private power giveaway. The just-released provincial report by Ken Davidson on the costs of BC Hydro’s power purchases is a damning indictment of its electricity policies—policies whose exorbitant and wholly unnecessary costs will saddle BC ratepayers with…

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    False advertising by the Alberta government and oil lobby

    As an Alberta-born and -raised earth scientist who has made a career studying fossil fuels and energy issues, I am dismayed at the bombardment of ‘fake news’ in print, online and TV ads from the Alberta government on the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion (TMX). These ads are repeated hourly on…

  • Evidence is in: privately funded health care doesn’t reduce wait times

    Current public dialogue is full of questions about what kind of innovation or “revamping” the health system needs. In this context, as a physician, I am compelled to apply principles of evidence-based practice to the public vs. private debate: Will Brian Day’s plan to expand privately funded health care in…

  • Fast Facts: What the Frack is Happening in Manitoba

    Manitoba is poised to be a major Canadian player in providing large quantities of silica sand used in hydraulic fracking by the oil and gas industry.  This presents major risks that should be fully explored before allowing shovels into the ground. Canadian Premium Sand, a Canadian publicly traded company, is…

  • Quality of Life Assessment is too important to be left to economists

    Download 229.48 KB 4 pages In 2008, French President Nicolas Sarkozy estab­lished the Commission on the Measurement of Eco­nomic Performance and Social Progress. It was headed by two Nobel laureates, Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen, and coordinated by the French economist, Jean-Paul Fitoussi. The 22 members of the Commission included…

  • Alternative Federal Budget

    Budget Fédéral Alternatif 2023

    Se mesurer au defi Download 3.59 MB 214 pages Le Canada se trouve à un carrefour. Nous sommes confrontés à de nombreux problèmes pressants qui exigent des actions immédiates, notamment : La COVID-19 et ses répercussions, l’inflation qui gruge des chèques de paie stagnants, nos réseaux de santé poussés à leurs…

  • How fast can we get to 100% renewables?

    This piece draws on research and a presentation in Vancouver by Mark Jacobson from Stanford University, who delivered the 2018 Gideon Rosenbluth Memorial Lecture. You can listen to the audio or watch a recording of the live video stream below, and you can download Mark’s slides here (PDF). It is…

  • Image: The massive Sunrise Plant, the largest gas plant built in Western Canada in 30 years, sits on farmland near Dawson Creek. It was one of three gas plants in a row exempted from provincial environmental assessments. © Garth Lenz

    Shielding fossil fuel corporations from public scrutiny: The new “neutral”?

    British Columbia’s Environmental Assessment Office bills itself as a “neutral” provincial agency. But there is evidence that this is not the case, and that BC Environment Minister George Heyman — who is tasked with “revitalizing” the province’s environmental assessment law — needs to make serious reforms. When a public regulator…

  • The Monitor, February 2015

    Download 1.59 MB Click the download button above to download this issue of The Monitor or click to read a selection of articles below: Ontario audit throws cold water on federal-provincial love affair with P3s, by Toby Sanger Leave the patchwork for the quilts: The case for national pharmacare, by Adrienne…

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    LNG Canada: Short-term politics trumps long-term climate responsibility

    LNG Canada’s final investment decision to build a natural gas liquefaction facility in Kitimat is a triumph of short-term politics over long-term responsibility to act on climate change. Exaggerated numbers have been used to sell the project to the public, while risks have been downplayed. The politics of liquefied natural gas…

  • Dangerous Cargo

    Nuclear waste to be transported through the Great Lakes Critics on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border are slamming a plan by Bruce Power, Canada’s private nuclear generating company, to ship 3,500 tonnes of nuclear waste through Lake Huron, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario, the St. Lawrence River, and the Atlantic…

  • Cost of F-35 fleet could reach $126 billion, report finds

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA – A report on the cost of F-35s has just been released by the Rideau Institute and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. “The Plane That Ate the Canadian Military” was written by University of British Columbia political science professor Michael Byers.…