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Wanted: An honest budget debate
(Vancouver) The provincial government has underestimated its revenues by $7.9 billion over the past four years and continues to low-ball projections. The government’s current “three-year fiscal...
February 16, 2006 | BC Office
Investing in education for low-income adults pays off
(Vancouver) The province must invest in education programs for low-income adults with upgrading needs if it wants achieve its goal of making BC the best-educated and most literate jurisdiction in...
February 1, 2006 | BC Office
Action plan shows more stable future for forest communities is possible
(Vancouver) A study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says there is no shortage of solutions available to the provincial government to secure the future of BC's...
December 7, 2005 | BC Office
Reductions in employment standards and enforcement amount to willful neglect of province’s most vulnerable workers, says labour economist
(Vancouver) Numbers obtained from the BC Ministry of Labour show that sweeping changes to the employment standards system have dramatically undermined the province’s ability to enforce minimum...
November 23, 2005 | BC Office
Provincial government risks recruitment and turnover problems if it ignores wage trends in next round of public sector bargaining
(Vancouver) As the BC government enters into collective bargaining with over 80% of the province’s public sector workers, it will have to consider that wages in the broader labour market are on...
November 9, 2005 | BC Office
Survey of young workers should prompt rethink of child and youth employment standards
(Vancouver) A new study that surveyed public school students raises
concerns that BC’s employment regulations are leaving children and
youth without adequate protections in the...
September 20, 2005 | BC Office
BC can get more bang from cruise tourism and promote stability for port communities
(Vancouver) Recent developments in cruise ship tourism suggest that BC needs a coordinated strategy for developing the industry. Such an approach would ensure ports aren’t played off against each...
August 25, 2005 | BC Office
More action, increased investments by province needed to fight pine beetle
(Vancouver) The BC government should spend a minimum of $118 million more per year for the next five years on research, reforestation and restoration efforts in pine beetle-attacked forests,...
July 27, 2005 | BC Office
Commodity-driven economic boost masks growing BC regional divide
(Vancouver) Provincial taxation and spending policies have worsened the gap between BC’s two economies — the diversified Lower Mainland and Victoria areas, and the more resource-dependent ‘...
May 4, 2005 | BC Office
Wage cuts and contracting out of health support jobs harming workers and health care system: reports
(Vancouver) On the first anniversary of BC’s health care strike, two new studies show that wage cuts and contracting out in BC’s health support services are having negative impacts on workers,...
April 26, 2005 | BC Office

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