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Established in 1997, the CCPA’s BC Office investigates key challenges facing our province through independent research, analysis and expertise. We propose real, workable solutions, and share our findings as widely as possible to advance social, economic and environmental justice – and to challenge the message that there is no alternative.
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More potentially fatal landslides and severe flooding ahead unless BC government enacts major reforms, experts warn
VANCOUVER — Several engineers and geoscientists say some of the worst flooding and landslides in BC last November were in valleys with land disturbances related…
BC Solutions: News and commentary from the CCPA’s BC Office
Download 1.39 MB12 pages In this issue: The Numbers Game: What happened to those 114,000 new affordable homes in BC BC needs a public intercity transportation service…
Canada’s muddled month of climate action: CCPA’s climate plan and budget analysis
The new era of climate ambition looks a lot like the old era of climate foot-dragging
Groups urge government to immediately disclose how much subsidies are propping up Drax Group, BC’s largest wood pellet producer
VANCOUVER — The BC government must immediately disclose how many logs from publicly owned forests are turned directly into wood pellets at mills owned by the …
Submission to the Special Committee to Review the British Columbia Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act
Download 424.74 KB23 pages British Columbia’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy system is in trouble. Through changes made by judicial decisions and by…
BC Budget 2021—Missed opportunities and inadequate investments
VANCOUVER—The BC government made some needed investments in its 2021 budget for COVID-19 recovery, but there is scarce new funding for major priorities like child…
Energy giant Drax’s monopoly of BC’s wood pellet industry must be investigated, union, conservation and public policy groups demand
VANCOUVER — The company operating the world’s largest wood-fired thermal electricity plant has too much control of British Columbia’s wood pellet industry and must be…
Upzoning Metro Vancouver’s Low-density Neighbourhoods for Housing Affordability
Download 3.06 MB24 pages It’s time to build the housing we need for the future of Metro Vancouver. To address the twin crises of housing…
Higher-density development solution for housing affordability and climate change, new report
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT VANCOUVER — Metro Vancouver needs more housing—specifically “missing middle” housing between the extremes of detached homes and large…
Upzoning and housing affordability
With the 2022 municipal elections now in sight—and a housing affordability crisis that’s as bad as ever—the City of Vancouver has embarked on two new…
BC Solutions: News and commentary from the CCPA’s BC Office
Download 3.17 MB16 pages Celebrating 25 years of the CCPA-BC BC is subsidizing logging for pulp and pellet mills CCPA in the news in 2021…
New report reveals the pervasive influence of big foreign oil in Canadian politics
Ottawa – A new report by the Council of Canadians and the BC and Saskatchewan offices of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives exposes the far-reaching power of…
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