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Public being misled by marketing of medical scans: New research reveals
Authors of a new study warn that private clinics selling high-tech services to screen healthy people for disease could be harming Canadians and placing an undue burden on the public health system...
March 30, 2009 | National Office, BC Office
Wood wasted at BC logging sites would fill a cross-country truck convoy — twice
(Vancouver) A new report on BC’s forest industry finds that startling numbers of usable logs are being left to rot or burn at logging sites, at a potential cost of thousands of forestry jobs and...
March 25, 2009 | BC Office
Majority of BC families can't get ahead: study reveals 30-year decline in incomes for all but the richest
(Vancouver) A new study reveals that BC’s poor and middle class families are in worse financial shape than their parents’ generation. The study, released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy...
March 10, 2009 | BC Office
2009 budget deficit likely to be in $1-$2 billion range – before needed stimulus plan
(Vancouver) Next week’s provincial budget should assume BC will be in a recession in 2009 and perhaps longer – and include an aggressive stimulus plan capable of reducing the length and severity...
February 11, 2009 | BC Office
The time is now for a legislated poverty reduction plan
On February 5, the CCPA's BC Office joined with 200 other organizations from across the province as signatories to an open letter calling for a legislated poverty reduction plan. Together...
February 5, 2009 | BC Office
Call for better construction worker safety in study released on 28th anniversary of tragic Bentall Tower IV accident
VANCOUVER - On the 28th anniversary of the deaths of four construction workers on the Bentall Tower IV, the BC Building Trades Council and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives released a...
January 7, 2009 | BC Office
Poverty reduction commitment needed from all BC political parties
(VANCOUVER) As the provincial election draws closer, a new report calls on BC’s political parties to commit to legislated targets and timelines to dramatically reduce poverty and homelessness....
December 11, 2008 | BC Office
Softwood Lumber Agreement rebates not invested in BC
VICTORIA — In just two years, the Softwood Lumber Agreement has cost BC’s forest industry more than half a billion dollars in new export taxes and led some companies to invest outside the province...
November 27, 2008 | BC Office
To be fair, BC’s carbon tax needs work
(Vancouver) Changes to BC’s carbon tax are needed in order to ensure people in different income groups pay a fair share, according to a new study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy...
October 30, 2008 | BC Office
Living wage shows real cost of raising a family
(Vancouver) A new study calls on major public and private sector employers to pay a living wage that would lift low-income families out of poverty and severe financial stress. A living wage allows...
September 25, 2008 | BC Office

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