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Trade Agreements Like NAFTA Are a Menace to Democracy
On his first day in office, US president Joe Biden revoked the permit for the controversial Keystone XL (KXL) pipeline. The partially built project was…
From Keynesian Consensus to Neo-Liberalism to the Green New Deal
75 years of income inequality in Canada Download 587.01 KB40 pages This report tracks Canadian income inequality through 75 years of growth and recessions and…
COVID-19 and looming climate crisis upending policy status quo: Report
New study speculates on what lies ahead in post-COVID-19 CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA and HALIFAX — An expert who has been…
If We Want to Clean Up the Oceans, We Have to Confront the Fossil Fuel Giants
Andy Morffew (Flickr Creative Commons) Throughout 2019, we saw multiple variations on the same grim headline: “Dead Whale Found With 48 Pounds of Plastic…
Monopolizing the Recovery
Canada and the WTO-TRIPS Waiver Proposal The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and Trade Justice Network host a conversation with global experts on the Indian…
BC government charging major users very little for water and only loosely tracking industrial water use, research shows
VANCOUVER—Major companies including mining juggernaut Teck Resources, the world’s largest aluminum maker Rio Tinto Alcan and natural gas processor WestCoast Energy Inc. pay shockingly little…
BC Solutions: News and commentary from the CCPA’s BC Office
Download 2.19 MB12 pages In this issue: Canadian billionaires’ wealth skyrocketing amid the panedmic Healthy forests for a cooler future What federal leadership on long-term…
The Golden Cushion
CEO compensation in Canada Download 492.96 KB 24 pages This report looks at CEO pay among Canada’s top-paid chief executive officers in 2019, based on company…
Heading into the pandemic, Canada’s highest paid CEOs made 202 times more than average worker pay in 2019
OTTAWA––Heading into the COVID-19 pandemic, Canada’s 100 highest paid CEOs made 202 times more than the average worker made in 2019, according to a new…
Our Schools/Our Selves – Winter/Spring 2021
Build Back Kinder What have post-pandemic school reopening policies revealed about provincial priorities, and how have public education advocates, parents, students and communities responded? Can we…
The Monitor, January/February 2021
A broader vision of public health Download 3.87 MB “If we learn anything from COVID-19,” write Lindsay McLaren and Trish Hennessy in their cover feature…
Fast Facts: The price of privatization at MTS – higher prices, fewer jobs
A shorter version was first published in the Winnipeg Free Press December 29, 2020 Manitoba Hydro Chief Executive Office Jay Grewal said this fall that…
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