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December 19, 2023

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    Economic Security Project (BC)

    BC Issues: Cuts to Continuing Care

    Read the news release here.

    November 17, 2023
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    Time to end information hide-and-seek games: Public deserves more prompt government disclosure of basic data

    No one should be told to file a Freedom of Information request simply to learn who works for them. Government must give members of the…

    November 16, 2023
  • The fight over carbon pricing is missing the point

    Carbon pricing fight a dangerous distraction from real climate policy

    November 16, 2023
  • A Not-So-Crazy Conspiracy Theory

    If this crisis doesn’t discredit capitalism, what will? There’s this cartoon about two cows. The first cow has just figured out, to her horror and…

    November 16, 2023
  • Close-up of a child magician boy holding a magic wand at stage theater

    Now You See It, Now You Don’t

    How federal and provincial benefits get wiped out with wage increases Download 122.6 KB3 pages Imagine a low-income family working hard day after day to…

    November 16, 2023
  • Affordability crisis will persist until we get a handle on runaway housing costs

    Although inflation has come down from the historic highs recorded in 2022, the cost of living in Metro Vancouver continues to increase rapidly.  It now…

    November 15, 2023
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    Labour Matters

    Austerity hurts

    About the authorJulie Guard

    November 14, 2023
  • Missing teeth

    About the authorDavid MacdonaldDavid joined the CCPA as its Senior Ottawa Economist in 2011, although he has been a long time contributor as a research…

    November 14, 2023
  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    How Biden’s digital trade rethink adds pressure to re-renegotiate NAFTA

    We should use the six-year renewal of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement to strip out Trump-era language benefiting big tech oligarchs. Then keep pushing.

    November 8, 2023
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    Public Interest Research Project (BC)

    Working for a Living Wage

    About the authorsIglika IvanovaIglika Ivanova was a Senior Economist and the Public Interest Researcher at the CCPA-BC.Anastasia FrenchAnastasia (she/her) has been managing the Living Wage…

    November 8, 2023
  • Finance, accounting and fintech, a man on a computer and calculator working out his business budget strategy. Businessman at his office desk, laptop, money management and financial investment online.
    Public Interest Research Project (BC)

    Living wage in Metro Vancouver rises to $25.68 amid soaring costs

    Community Living Wage 2023 Living Wage $ increase from last year Percentage increase from last year Living Wage 2022 Clayoquot Sound $26.51 N/A N/A DID…

    November 8, 2023
  • Woman in hotel stacking towels in a shelf

    Understanding Precarity in BC

    About the authorCCPA – BC

    November 7, 2023
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