The benefits of single-payer medicare are undeniable. Alberta’s reforms upend the economic benefits of public health insurance

The government of British Columbia is calling an election, just two years into a majority mandate and with an opposition mostly in disarray

Doubling our electricity systems to deliver clean, reliable power, support growth, and reduce emissions

Empowered with a majority government and new resource revenue, the feds are doing more of the same

Empowered with a majority government and new resource revenue, the feds are doing more of the same

PCs could pass controversial freedom-of-information system changes next week

An estimated $1 trillion is moving from the bank accounts and real estate portfolios of the Baby Boomers into the hands of their children.

Canada’s National Observer analyzed the locations of 38 data centre campuses proposed in the province, and found that three quarters of them are in regions where water use is already in shorter supply...

BC's Finance Minister says "this is not an austerity budget." Let's look at the numbers and see for ourselves.

Primary care access is declining in BC. With a new provincial budget on the way, how has spending on doctors affected it?

British Columbia Lt.-Gov. Wendy Cocchia opened a new session of the legislature on Thursday with a speech from the throne dedicated to the people of Tumbler Ridge, saying that they are 'suffering unim...

Research Assistant Research · Ottawa, Ontario The Organization: The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) is an independent, non-partisan research institute concerned with issues of social, ...

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zmason@medicinehatnews.com Experts say Bill 11, the Health Statutes Amendments Act, represents the foundations for the first two-tier health-care system in Canada. Although the province says it is dra...

Among the options are the government taking a stake in key industrial companies.

The budget makes clear that fossil fuel production for export is a central pillar of this government’s economic strategy — and that it won’t let climate measures get in the way.

With so much on the line, the newly elected federal government has tabled a budget that, in many ways, could pass as a Conservative budget.

A playbook for economic self-sufficiency. Because Canada can’t become a sovereign country by doing the same old things.

The same federal government who alienated our oil and gas industry is now putting global food security at risk by attacking the hard working agriculture producers across western Canada with an arbitra...

These days, there are many reminders to hold on to this one precious thing: our democracy. Not just ticking a box at election time, but working in between elections to protect the systems in place to ...

Like many of us, I grew up with the CBC as a daily and vital part of my life.

During the 2025 election campaign, prime minister Mark Carney made a striking admission about Canada’s dependence on U.S. tech companies. The Canadian government was in the process of choosing a partn...

These days, there are many reminders to hold on to this one precious thing: our democracy. Not just ticking a box at election time, but working in between elections to protect the systems in place to ...

I was only a few years into my journalism career when the future began to visit the present. Newspapers were going through a hard time, and the layoffs were just starting.

The Liberal Party’s election win caps a remarkable reversal in its fortunes over a few short months, with Canadians placing their bet on leader Mark Carney to confront and contain American threats to ...

USMCA “was actually very effective, and it’s still very effective” People “haven’t followed it” (yeah, we know) It was “a transitional step a little bit” It “terminates very shortly” It “gets renegoti...

An overview and report on the state of BC’s 2025 Budget, as well as the spirited, diverse discussion over what it entails.

It’s been an absolutely wild election. Polling predictions were a roller coaster, from a historic Conservative majority, to a Liberal majority, and everything in between. When we got off the roller co...

In 2021, Fair Vote Canada marked the 100-year anniversary of politicians promising to move from first-past-the-post voting to proportional representation in Canada. (Dear reader: We are still waiting)...

The U.S. president is turning the world economy upside down, holding everyone hostage in the process. Canada’s position is especially precarious.  After decades of the U.S. pursuing a neoliberal agend...

Last January’s panic over Meta overlord Mark Zuckerberg’s firing of Facebook fact checkers once again revealed a sense of entitlement among many Canadian users who sanctimoniously posted that they wer...

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”—George Orwell, 1984.

British Columbia has long had a reputation as Canada’s most progressive province.