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What's really happening with social housing in BC?
Despite many recent announcements from the provincial government (over 100 housing-related news releases in the last year), BC continues to face a serious lack of affordable housing. We partnered...
September 13, 2010 | BC Office
CCPA's YouTube Channel is Canada's number one non-profit channel
How exciting to see the little gold ribbons on our YouTube homepage! The CCPA's YouTube channel...
August 30, 2010 | National Office, BC Office
Reflections on the Tamil migrants from the child of "queue-jumping" asylum seekers
Many of us at the CCPA have been troubled by Canada's reaction to the arrival of 492 Tamil asylum seekers on the MV Sun Sea. Seth Klein, Director of our BC Office, put words to this discomfort in...
August 23, 2010 | National Office, BC Office
Apply now for the Next Up youth leadership program
Applications are now being accepted for the fourth year of...
July 29, 2010 | BC Office
Meaningful training programs for welfare recipients
Check out the new paper by CCPA-BC research associate Shauna Butterwick: ...
July 26, 2010 | BC Office
Carbon footprint from fossil fuel exports at odds with BC’s climate action policy
The CCPA-BC office released another Climate Justice Project brief today, this one finding that greenhouse gas emissions from exported coal and natural gas generate more than double the emissions...
July 16, 2010 | BC Office
BC's Super-Fudge-It Budget
The BC government has announced that the provincial deficit is nearly $1.8 billion. "We told you so," says Marc Lee. Read...
July 12, 2010 | BC Office
BC carbon tax turns two: should we celebrate?
Marc Lee reminds us that July 1 marked more than the debut of the HST. "The carbon tax is now $20 per tonne of CO2, or about 4.6 cents on a litre of gasoline. And like any two-year old, this...
July 6, 2010 | BC Office
The HST and BC family budgets
That the HST will take a bite out of family budgets is clear to everyone. The main question right now is just how big of a bite. Two studies released earlier this week asked this exact question...
June 28, 2010 | BC Office
The dangers of cutting municipal taxes
On Policy Note, Keith Reynolds argues against the anti-tax logic of the Taxpayers' Federation. If municipalities go further down the road of tax cuts, we could end up like California: in deep...
June 22, 2010 | BC Office
BC's Clean Energy Act will cost British Columbians
In today's Vancouver Sun, Marvin Shaffer argues that the Clean Energy Act is far worse legislation than the HST — in fact, he says, this is the legislation that British Columbians should be...
June 14, 2010 | BC Office
Special Advisor's Report on the Vancouver School Board
Over on Policy Note, Keith Reynolds has outlined some of the problems with the recent report on the Vancouver School Board prepared by the Comptroller-General. Like, for example, the fact that the...
June 9, 2010 | BC Office
The job market may be recovering, but some jobs aren't coming back
On Policy Note, Iglika Ivanova is "thinking about recessions as times of more fundamental, structural change in the economy and the job market and not just periods of temporary slow-down after...
May 20, 2010 | BC Office
2010 living wage shows the real costs of raising a family in Metro Vancouver
The BC Office has released a 2010 update to the living wage calculation for Metro Vancouver. Read about it here: www.policyalternatives.ca...
May 4, 2010 | BC Office
Federal government undermining workplace safety
On the eve of the National Day of Mourning for workers killed on the job, the CCPA is releasing two studies highlighting the need for improved health and safety enforcement and regulation....
April 27, 2010 | National Office, BC Office
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“When the CCPA British Columbia Office opened in 1997, we dove into BC’s public policy debates head first, backed by the solid research and expertise CCPA is known for. We’ve been at it ever since, challenging the message that there is no alternative, and showing that a more just, caring and sustainable society is possible.”

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