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Kenny Mcdonald / Flickr” style=”border-radius:0px;–objectFit:cover;–imagePosX:50%;–imagePosY:50%” srcset=”https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pn_nov2017_HousingCrisisWorse.jpg 900w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pn_nov2017_HousingCrisisWorse-300×133.jpg 300w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pn_nov2017_HousingCrisisWorse-768×341.jpg 768w” sizes=”(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px” />Housing crisis worse: Former UN special rapporteur Miloon Kothari revisits Vancouver
As the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing from 2000 to 2008, Miloon Kothari observed the failure of market-based approaches to…
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Where is BC headed on climate action?
Canadian politicians have a long-standing tradition of proclaiming targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, then failing to meet them. After a wake-up call in the…
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Rising housing costs in Vancouver: New evidence from the Census
Vancouver’s housing affordability crisis is full of jaw-dropping anecdotes about home prices and rents. But with almost a million households in Metro Vancouver, there are…
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Sticker Shock: The impending cost of BC Hydro’s shift to private power developers – Ten years on
In April 2007, the BC government’s energy policy was rapidly transforming the province’s electricity system from publicly owned to one operated in the interests of…
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What the Just? Transitioning to a low carbon, good jobs economy
For most working people, environmental concerns have historically been a bit like Harvey Dent—two faced. One face says that poisoned water supplies and changing weather…
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Ontario PC convention: Will it shed light on Patrick Brown’s agenda?
About the authorTrish HennessyTrish is the Director of the Think Upstream project and a senior communications strategist with the CCPA National Office. She is focused…
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Charting a path to $15/hour for all workers—and the road beyond
CCPA-BC Submission to the Fair Wages Commission Download 10.68 MB10 pages In this submission to the BC Fair Wages Commission, the CCPA-BC highlights the urgency…
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Fast Facts: No Poverty Reduction Strategy in Speech from the Throne
Tuesday morning, I received a phone call from a Make Poverty History Manitoba member. He lives on a disability benefit that provides him only $180…
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Paul Graham Morris
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