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Climate damages litigation could cost Canadian oil & gas companies billions: study
OTTAWA—Canadian oil and gas companies could be liable for billions of dollars of damages for their contribution to climate change, according a study released today…
Fast Fasts: CEO Sleep Out – Charity not Change
Last night several dozen business leaders, politicians and high profile Winnipeggers spent a night at Portage and Main in the annual CEO Sleep Out to…
Fast Facts: A vote for austerity is a vote for more suffering
Lorrie Steeve’s distasteful comments about Aboriginal panhandlers set off a series of responses that reflected badly on many Winnipeggers. The following week’s big story was…
Lots of talk about trade barriers but deregulation lies between the lines
(This article also appeared on the Huffington Post blog.) Canada’s premiers are in Charlottetown for their annual Council of the Federation meeting and once again…
New report chronicles regulatory failures behind Lac-Mégantic
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—In advance of tomorrow’s Transportation Safety Board (TSB) final report into why a train loaded with crude oil…
Willful Blindness?
Regulatory Failures Behind the Lac-Mégantic Disaster Download 631.47 KB32 pages This report, by CCPA Executive Director Bruce Campbell details eight key ways in which regulatory…
CCPA-NS Roundtable on the Ivany Report
What is at stake? The public interest and Nova Scotia’s “new economy” CCPA-NS Roundtable on the Ivany Report
Lac-Mégantic : camouflage de la vérité derrière l’échec de la réglementation
La semaine dernière, 10 mois après la catastrophe qui a frappé la ville de Lac‑Mégantic, les procureurs du gouvernement du Québec ont déposé des accusations…
Nova Scotia government has to look beyond the economics of immigration report urges
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT Halifax– Over the past 20 years, the number of immigrants to Nova Scotia has increased, but the share…
Lac-Mégantic: Suppressing the Truth Behind Regulatory Failure
Last week, 10 months after disaster struck the town of Lac-Mégantic, Québec government prosecutors laid criminal charges against three front-line employees of Montréal Maine and…
Expanding the Vision
Why Nova Scotia Should Look Beyond Econocentric Immigration Policy Download 481.91 KB 38 pages Nova Scotia’s immigration policy to-date has largely fallen into step with…
Economics are for Everyone – A webinar with Jim Stanford and Lynne Fernandez
As part of CCPA-MB’S Supporter Drive, economist Jim Stanford, currently living in Australia, joined Lynne Fernandez in an interactive video platform to talk about Economics…
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