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Costly Energy
Why Oil and Gas Prices Are Rising and What We Can Do About It Download 658.31 KB50 pages
Vehicle feebates should be considered
The response from the automobile industry to the provincial government’s discussion paper on vehicle feebates was expectedly swift and critical. Indeed, vehicle feebates–taxing the purchase…
Environmental tax shifting cannot replace regulation
The BC government released a discussion paper a few months ago on a relatively new policy tool: environmental tax shifting. The paper was intended to…
Environmental tax shifting cannot replace regulation
New CCPA report offers a framework for evaluating environmental taxes and cautions against using tax shifting as a panacea CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL…
Shifting Ground
A CCPA-BC Policy Brief on the Potential and Limitations of Environmental Tax Shifting Download 228.33 KB20 pages
BC forest industry needs to do more with its wood
In the last two weeks, three news stories on BC’s forest industry told a pretty compelling story about the state of the industry and its…
Crisis in BC’s resource sectors driven mainly by global factors
New CCPA study highlights failure of resource corporations to adequately invest in the province CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) The BC Office…
Lessons to learn from BC’s resource crisis
It has been said that those who do not know their history are doomed to repeat it. After the crisis in BC’s resource sectors during…
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BC Commentary: A Review of Provincial Social and Economic Trends
Summer 1999, Volume 2, Number 3 Download 68.12 KB4 pages Inside this issue: Trade – A British Columbia Perspective After MacMillan Bloedel: How will Merger-Mania…
Preventing future Gold Rivers requires thinking outside the box
When the workers at the ill-fated Gold River pulp mill took their severance packages last week, it marked closure on a frustrating struggle to save…
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