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Worried about Infrastructure Costs? Then End the Apartment Ban
Takeaways: Opponents of building more homes in British Columbia, and especially denser, lower-cost options like apartments, often wield the argument that their communities lack the…
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Cuts to Forest Service are too deep
There are many things that distinguish “supernatural” British Columbia from other jurisdictions. But one of the most enduring of them is its abundance of publicly…
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BC’s Forest Service jeopardized by deep cuts: time for a formal inquiry
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. VANCOUVER–A decade of layoffs and budget cuts, combined with the recent radical cabinet reorganization, have so thoroughly gutted BC’s Forest…
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Axed: A Decade of Cuts to BC’s Forest Service
Download 1.91 MB14 pages This study analyses the impact of cuts and changes to BC’s Forest Service over the past decade, and concludes with a…
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Advancing Democracy and Social Justice in Canada: The Next 30 Years
On November 18, 2010 CCPA celebrated its 30th anniversary with a conference entitled Advancing Democracy and Social Justice in Canada: The Next 30 Years. Click…
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The Vision Thing
For many years now, the year 2010 has had an almost mythic quality to it. More than just a decade-ending round number (we never collectively…
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Reduction in unionization helped break the economy
Do unions have any role in today’s society? Right wing organizations like the Fraser Institute say no but a report from an unlikely source suggests…
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Labour market exodus and other unhappy math
Friday’s labour force survey numbers from Statistics Canada were another nail in the coffin of Canada’s fleeting, fragile economic “recovery.” On first glance, the data…
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The Economist Magazine calls out BC
Well, I never thought I’d see this rebuke of Canada and BC in The Economist Magazine of all places. But the current issue of the…
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State of the Inner-City Report: We’re in it for the long haul
Defining the focus of the 6th State of the Inner City Report unfolded as it does every year. We began the process by meeting with…
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Canada and the next financial crisis
How will the next financial crisis erupt? (Or perhaps we should say a further chapter of the ongoing financial crisis). It’s like figuring out which…
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Poverty reduction update
Lots of developments on the Poverty Reduction front over the last two weeks. Here are a few updates: First, last week brought news that Danny…
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Hedging Our Bets?
Liberal class is dead in the U.S. But what about Canada? Last month in this space I bemoaned the mounting power and influence of ultra-conservative…
