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Image: What do the two largest mining disasters in Canada’s and Brazil’s histories have in common?
The Mount Polley disaster took place in August 2014, when the dam holding toxic waste from the copper and gold mine collapsed, creating the largest…
Tailings dam spills at Mount Polley and Mariana
Chronicles of disasters foretold Download 7.07 MB64 pages This paper explores the many parallels between the tailings dam spills at the Mount Polley mine in…
Mount Polley four years after the tailings dam breach: business as usual
“If you asked me two weeks ago if this could have happened, I would have said it couldn’t.” Imperial Metals president Brian Kynoch, spoke these…
The Monitor, July/August 2018
Work in Transition Download 6.93 MB Here at the CCPA, we’re constantly thinking about what needs to change in our lives, our economy and our…
Fast Facts: Social Enterprise improves food security in Garden Hill First Nation
Food insecurity is a pressing problem for thousands of Indigenous people living in remote reserves in the North of Manitoba. The new CCPA Manitoba report…
Harnessing the Potential of Social Enterprise in Garden Hill First Nation
Download 1.2 MB56 pages This paper explores the economy, the health status, and particularly the issue of food sovereignty of Garden Hill First Nation (GHFN),…
Fast Facts: A Comparison of the Carbon Tax Rebates to Families in Manitoba and British Columbia 2017
When British Columbia introduced its carbon tax, it provided a rebate to families to offset the higher cost of goods and services created by that…
Pipe Dreams: The risky bets behind Ottawa’s TMX purchase
The federal government’s decision, announced this morning, to purchase the existing Trans Mountain pipeline and the pipeline expansion project from Kinder Morgan for $4.5 billion…
Fossil fuel companies broke numerous rules intended to protect threatened caribou, suppressed report shows
VANCOUVER – BC’s Oil and Gas Commission sat on a damaging audit for nearly four years that showed companies that drill and frack for natural…
BC Solutions: News and commentary from the CCPA’s BC Office
May 2018 Download 2.61 MB12 pages In this issue: Standing up to the corporate backlash Research and commentary on Kinder Morgan Relax. Employer health taxes…
Politics versus the future: Canada’s Orwellian energy standoff
There is no denying the utility of fossil fuels, which meet 85% of the world’s energy needs. And consumption is rising along with emissions. Even…
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