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  • Our recommendations for the 2023 BC budget

    The BC government is holding its annual public consultation on Budget 2023 this June, inviting British Columbians to share their priorities for government investment next year.  On June 14, I presented CCPA-BC’s recommendations to the Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services. Via the BC Legislative Assembly website, you…

  • Expansive aerial view of a pit mining project in Alberta's Oilsands near Fort McMurray.
    Corporate Mapping Project

    New report shines light on the state of fossil fuel industry in Eastern Canada – an overlooked region in energy transition debates

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT [HALIFAX/ Kjipuktuk, June 6, 2023] – Despite Eastern Canada being highly invested in oil and gas production, the region is often left out of energy policy discussions typically focused on Western provinces. A new report maps the extensive existing and proposed fossil fuel exploration,…

  • Debunking the Fraser Institute’s latest scaremongering on Indigenous rights

    In a particularly repugnant move, the Fraser Institute chose National Aboriginal Day (June 21) to release a report by Tom Flanagan claiming that a sharp increase in people with Registered Indian status will drive up government costs. The methodology employed by Flanagan is remarkably shoddy, as I explain below. I’m…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    Le PTP pourrait entraîner une détérioration de la balance commerciale du Canada et affaiblir les secteurs à forte intensité de main-d’œuvre, selon une étude

    CLIQUEZ ICI POUR CONSULTER LE RAPPORT. OTTAWA – Pendant les consultations que mène le gouvernement fédéral sur le Partenariat transpacifique (PTP), une nouvelle étude du Centre canadien de politiques alternatives (CCPA) remet en question les immenses avantages commerciaux que le PTP est censé représenter pour le Canada. L’étude conclut que…

  • Why are we letting corporate medicine take hold in Vancouver’s new urgent care centres?

    The BC government has rolled out a flurry of impressive measures to strengthen our public health care system over the past two years. Flying below the radar, though, is a new effort by for-profit corporations to push their way into BC’s health care system — and the Vancouver Coastal Health…

  • Public Interest Research Project (BC)

    Leaked health ministry document shows cost transfer to sick, elderly

    When the provincial government announced the sweeping income tax cuts last June, it promised British Columbians more money in our pockets. It sounded good on the surface, but ten months later it is becoming apparent that we are paying a high price for the tax cuts through reductions in government…

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    A progressive macroeconomic response to the coronavirus crisis in British Columbia

    While much of the world remains under strict lockdown and we have yet to determine the full extent of the already-unprecedented economic crisis caused by the global coronavirus pandemic, it is not too early to start thinking about the way out of the crisis. So many people have seen their…

  • 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…

  • Ottawa, Canada; The Peace Tower on Parliament Hill in Ottawa

    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…

  • 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.

  • 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…