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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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Will LNG development blow BC’s carbon budget?
Last week’s report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reaffirmed the scientific consensus that global warming is happening and is primarily caused by human…
Reopening Riverview Hospital not the answer
The BC government recently rejected the recommendation of the Union of BC Municipalities to re-instate Riverview Hospital. Our government has made the right decision. The…
What can be done about BC Hydro rates?
The leak of the BC Hydro Rates Working Group paper, with its estimate that rates need to increase by 26.4 % in the next two…
BC Commentary: A Review of Provincial Social and Economic Trends
Fall 2013, Volume 16, Number 3 Download 1.01 MB8 pages Highlights of recent CCPA-BC research. Inside this issue Time to rethink BC’s LNG plans by Ben…
BC should follow other provinces’ lead in setting minimum wage
The average weekly wage in BC increased by only 1.3 per cent between June 2012 and June 2013, half of the 2.6 per cent jump…
BC government to blame for looming BC Hydro rate increases
BC Hydro rates are going up. In its rate application hearing before the BC Utilities Commission last year, BC Hydro forecast increases of some 10%…
Water withdrawal stats run dry
Nestlé will voluntary disclose such vital information, but BC government doesn’t seem interested in asking Here’s a question that our provincial government ought to be…
BC Commentary: A Review of Provincial Social and Economic Trends
Spring/Summer 2013, Volume 16, Number 2 Download 1.04 MB8 pages Inside this issue: Climate justice and BC’s political moment by Marc Lee Stopping dangerous forestry legislation…
Why wheelchair fees are not fair and what they say about the state of seniors care in BC
The recent announcement of a $25/month user fee for wheelchairs used by people in long-term care facilities in the Fraser and Vancouver Coastal health regions…
Does Premier Clark, the great petro pretender, have a Plan B?
In January, one of the world’s most sophisticated deep-sea drilling vessels, the $540-million Chikyu, left the Japanese Port of Shimizu destined for a distant point…
BC needs to better monitor water consumption
For some time, the men and women tasked with ensuring there is enough clean, safe water in Greater Victoria have understood two simple things: the…
It’s time to modernize BC’s Water Act
Shortly after the 2009 BC election, a commitment was made to modernize the province’s century old Water Act to meet the challenges of a new…
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