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The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion was an expensive mistake
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Capital gains tax increase is a step towards a fairer tax system in Canada
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Building Equity
No topic has dominated the headlines in recent years more than housing or the growing lack of affordable options in Metro Vancouver and other cities…
Canada’s shift to a more regressive tax system, 2004 to 2022
The SPSD is a non-confidential, statistically representative database of individuals in their family context, with enough information on each individual to compute taxes paid to…
Connecting BC
After years of neglect and privatization, today’s transit system in BC is plagued with overcrowding, delays and big gaps in service. The good news is…
Beleaguered federal government unlikely to turn the page with restrained fiscal update
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland talks up housing and affordability while austerity looms
How Canada can meet its 2030 climate targets
Adapted from the CCPA’s fall 2023 submission to Canada’s Net-Zero Advisory Body by Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood & Marc Lee
The federal government could make real progress on housing affordability
Federal cabinet ministers are meeting in Charlottetown to discuss the housing crisis
Budget 2023: a risky bet on cleaner capitalism
The 2023 federal budget goes puts the market at the forefront of climate solutions—at our own peril
Spending What it Takes
Transformational climate investments for long-term prosperity in Canada Download 1.08 MB34 pages The world is confronted with a slew of accelerating and converging crises, from…
A Climate Reckoning
The economic costs of BC’s extreme weather in 2021 Download 1.48 MB56 pages BC’s severe climate events in 2021 cost the province’s economy billions more…
Canada’s muddled month of climate action: CCPA’s climate plan and budget analysis
The new era of climate ambition looks a lot like the old era of climate foot-dragging
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