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Fast Facts: Manitoba Needs a Real Climate Plan
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press March 12, 2021
Wealth tax would raise much more revenue than previously calculated by Parliamentary Budget Officer
VANCOUVER — A one per cent tax on wealth over $20 million would generate nearly twice as much revenue as previously calculated by the Parliamentary…
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…
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…
Groups urge BC government to delay ruling on unprecedented proposal to turn unlogged forests into wood pellets
VANCOUVER — Vast swaths of forest in British Columbia’s Fort Nelson region are in danger of being gobbled up to make low-value, climate-unfriendly wood pellets…
Fast Facts: Manitoba Government runs afoul with a number of laws to assist silica sand mine project
CanWhite Sands Corp. (CWS), an Alberta-based company, is proposing to build a silica sand processing facility and to extract 1.3.million tonnes of silica sand a…
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…
Fast Facts: Manitoba Continues to Ignore Aquifer Contamination Issue
On November 5th, under cover of the pandemic crisis, the Manitoba government publicly released all of the public comments and Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) responses…
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 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…
Trade, gender and the international rules-based order
CCPA submission to the federal government white paper on a Feminist Foreign Policy As part of Canada’s Feminist Foreign Policy White Paper consultation, the federal…
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