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John Calvert
John Calvert is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University and a research associate with the CCPA’s BC Office. Dr. Calvert is the author of Liquid Gold: Energy Privatization in British Columbia, a book that challenges the former BC Liberal government’s private power agenda. He also worked for the Crown Corporations Secretariat which oversaw BC Hydro during the 1990s and was also a member of the 2005 BC Hydro Provincial Integrated Electricity Planning Committee.
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Building better
Community benefits agreements are a creative and effective way to build a better construction workforce
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Canada Free Trade Agreement amendments: A race to the bottom
One of the most egregious components of the Canada Free Trade Agreement (CFTA) is the restriction that governments should demonstrate that any new regulations they…
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Interprovincial trade “solutions” would restrict public oversight of the market
Inflated claims about major benefits of enhancing the Canada Free Trade Act (CFTA) as part of Canada’s frenzied interprovincial trade barrier campaign have an ulterior…
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Campaign to eliminate interprovincial trade barriers is neoliberal project
What are we to make of the current—almost hysterical—campaign by business interests who claim that removing interprovincial trade barriers is the best way to address…
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The Deregulation Zombie Rises Again in Texas
Forced to use unprecedented amounts of electricity to heat their homes and stop their water pipes from freezing during the recent cold snap, Texas citizens…
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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…
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Sticker Shock: The impending cost of BC Hydro’s shift to private power developers – Ten years on
In April 2007, the BC government’s energy policy was rapidly transforming the province’s electricity system from publicly owned to one operated in the interests of…
Presentation to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Trade on the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
Download 768.7 KB John Calvert is an Associate Professor with the Faculty of Health Science at Simon Fraser University, and a research associate with the…
What can be done about BC Hydro rates?
The leak of the BC Hydro Rates Working Group paper, with its estimate that rates need to increase by 26.4 % in the next two…
Subsidizing dirty industries with expensive clean electricity is a recipe for major rate hikes
Premier Clark’s recent decision to cap the BC Hydro rate increases next year may have ratepayers breathing a sigh of relief. But it’s a short…
Clean Electricity, Conservation and Climate Justice in BC
Meeting our energy needs in a zero-carbon future Download 3.58 MB42 pages Update, July 18, 2012: The day after we released this study, the provincial…
Climate Change and the Canadian Energy Sector
Implications for Labour and Trade Unions Download 2.03 MB80 pages This study argues that we need a fundamental rethinking of where Canada is going in…