CCPA BC's analysis of the 2021 Federal and Provincial Budgets. This event took place on Zoom on April 29, 2021 as a supporter event. Due to a technical issue the recording starts a few minutes into the event. The CCPA-BC is located and does their work primarily on the unceded territory belonging to the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.

On October 3, 2019, the CCPA-BC and UBC's Vancouver School of Economics were pleased to present the 2019 Gideon Rosenbluth Memorial Lecture.

In an era of high inequality, continuing poverty, homelessness and housing issues, and concerns about the impact of new technologies on work, there is an appetite for considering radical policy shifts. In that context, a basic income has received a lot of attention across the policy discussion spectrum. It has been promoted as a policy tool that can help eliminate poverty, and which can also play a central role in restructuring society and the role of labour within it.

The question this lecture considers is, “Is it the right policy for BC now?”

David Green—a member of the BC government’s panel looking into a basic income—provides background on trends in the economy that are related to the call for a basic income, and describes the different forms a basic income could take, specify potential goals for it, and describe some of the cost and other practicalities. Following David’s talk members of different local communities share what a basic income in BC could mean — both its potential and its problems.

Participants include:

- Margot Young (Allard School of Law at UBC)

- Chuka Ejeckam (BC Federation of Labour)

- Trish Garner (BC Poverty Coalition)

Canada, and the rest of the world, is facing a climate crisis. Ahead of Canada's next federal election, Erika Shaker sits down with Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood to discuss carbon tax, just transition, and how we as a nation can address our emissions and help other countries meet their targets.

Learn about the secret weapon Canadian mining companies are using to extract money from developing countries when environmental measures, Indigenous rights and community resistance create democratic roadblocks to their extracting oil, gas and minerals.

Investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) is an increasingly controversial but still overlooked part of Canada's free trade agenda. The Trudeau government has pulled NAFTA's ISDS system out of the new deal with Trump, the USMCA, because of its negative impact on democracy. But Canada continues to maintain the corporate-biased arbitration system in dozens of trade and investment treaties with developing countries where, we must conclude, democratic institutions and environmental stewardship are seen as a nuisance.

CCPA Monitor editor Stuart Trew interviews CCPA researcher Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood, Mining Watch Canada campaigner Kirsten Francescone and Corporate Europe Observatory campaigner/researcher Pia Eberhardt about their recent work on ISDS and the prospects for eliminating it globally.

CCPA Monitor editor Stuart Trew speaks to Kevin Rebeck, president of the Manitoba Federation of Labour, about the events and legacy of the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike, and the importance of direct action, within and beyond the labour movement, to achieving social justice goals in a new era of retrenching worker rights, intensifying inequality and consolidating corporate power over the democratic process.

Read more about the strike and direct action from 1919 to today, check out the March-April 2019 issue of the Monitor: https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/monitor/monitor-marchapril-2019.

With just a matter of days until marijuana legalization legislation comes into force in Canada, the CCPA Talking Points podcast asks activists and legal experts about what’s ahead, and who’s left behind, in the new world of cannabis capitalism.

In this first episode of the CCPA's rebooted podcast, hosts Alyssa O'Dell and Stuart Trew talk to CCPA economist David Macdonald about the Liberal government's proposals for closing costly tax loopholes, and Melinda St. Louis from Public Citizen about this week's NAFTA negotiations in Ottawa.

Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was completed in December 2015. Indigenous activist Clayton Thomas-Muller joins us to discuss reconciliation and its implications, particularly in the context of continued resource extraction on indigenous lands. Reconciliation is the focus of the March/April issue of The Monitor.

Clayton Thomas-Muller is the Stop It at the Source campaigner with 350.org

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Following the Paris climate summit last year -- and an ambitious 1.5 degree target to limit global warming -- the Trudeau government promised a First Ministers meeting within 90 days. Marc Lee joins us to discuss the outcome of that meeting, the road ahead for climate policy in Canada, and the issue of fossil fuel divestment and "stranded assets."

Marc Lee is a CCPA Senior Economist and Co-Director of the Climate Justice Project.

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In an extended interview, Scott Sinclair discusses the implications of the Trans-Pacific Partnership for the Canadian economy, jobs, and the dairy and auto sectors. Scott also breaks down the flawed assumptions of some economic modelling used to support the case for deals like the TPP.

Scott Sinclair is the Director of the CCPA's Trade and Investment Research Project.

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