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A Policymaker’s Guide to Basic Income
Download 1022.54 KB 42 pages There has been a resurgence of political interest in Canada in the rather old idea of a universal basic income,…
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Political leadership needed to revitalize BC’s forestry industry
During the last provincial election not a day seemed to go by that Premier Christy Clark wasn’t donning a hardhat and promising us a brighter…
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A reality check on a national carbon price
About the authorMarc LeeMarc Lee is a Senior Economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Marc joined the CCPA’s British Columbia office in 1998,…
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Happy to be proven wrong: Liberals considering national carbon tax
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…
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How employers of Temporary Foreign Workers get away with low pay and bad working conditions
Canada’s controversial Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) Program is once again under the microscope with the release of a Parliamentary Committee report last week. While the report recommends…
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Penticton’s peculiar policy on freedom of information
This is International Right to Know Week, a week in honour of the public’s right to information held by their governments. The week is being…
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Ontario minimum wage goes up by 15 cents: shopping spree?
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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Fraser Institute, provincial government swing and miss again on education funding
My recent analysis of BC’s education funding crisis made some waves, travelling far and wide in the media and becoming one of our most-read papers…
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Work Life: Cities and Civic Workers
The Union Role in Building Better Cities Book Review Although Carlo Fanelli’s book Megacity Malaise: Neoliberalism, Public Services and Labour in Toronto is not about…
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How Proportional Representation could help to decentralize power and strengthen Parliament
Submission to the House of Commons Special Committee on Electoral Reform The debate around electoral reform has largely neglected a central question: what would a…
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Fast Facts: Honouring a Quiet Warrior – Larry Morrissette
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press, Sept 28, 2016 The recent death of Larry Morrissette is a major loss, not only to his family…
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Independence or a bit more income: British Columbians with disabilities are forced to choose
On September 1st, British Columbians on disability assistance saw their monthly rates go up for the first time in nine years. Unfortunately, the BC government…
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