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Soaring cost of living—especially for housing—causes living wages to increase across BC
The 2024 living wage for Metro Vancouver has risen to $27.05 per hour, a 5.3% increase from last year. This significant increase highlights the region’s…
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A Key Neglected Tool For Economic Recovery
A different and improved money system is urgently needed An improved money system could provide governments in Canada and elsewhere with abundant funding, not only…
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Ignatieff and Asbestos
Liberals need to make anti-asbestos stand official policy With the federal Liberals now semi- officially supporting the banning of Canadian asbestos exports, a political debate…
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Fast Facts: Victoria Park Remains Contested Territory
Download 534.2 KB 2 pages About the authorDennis Lewycky
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The View from Here
Manitobans call for a poverty reduction plan Download 558.55 KB76 pages Governments across Canada are implementing comprehensive plans with targets and timelines aimed at reducing…
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Fast Facts: East Beats West
Nonprofit Childcare Superior to Commercial Sector Download 498.88 KB 2 pages About the authorSusan Prentice
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Investor Rights Trump Human Rights
The Investment Chapter of the Canada-Colombia FTA Download 133.46 KB6 pages About the authorScott Sinclair
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Beware of sales pitch for unnecessary CT scans
I sometimes wonder if former prime minister Brian Mulroney still feels any pain. Back in 2005, Mulroney received full-blown chest surgery after having undergone a…
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Reading the entrails of BC’s election
Three-peat. Hat trick. The media is full of jubilation for the re-election of the Campbell Liberals. But looking at the numbers, it was actually quite…
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Watch out for that train
Is it too early to start talking about what happens now the election is over? Because that light at the end of the tunnel really…
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Yet another case of our government delaying the release of important data
Less than a week after BC’s Freedom of Information and Privacy Association (FIPA) report raised serious questions about secrecy in government (see Keith’s comments here),…
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Bike to Work Week and our transportation culture
Pouring rain marked the start of Vancouver’s Bike to Work Week (May 11 – 17) this year, but those who braved the weather conditions are…
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Where’s Our Danny Boy (2)? Mayor of embattled town weighs in on needed forest reforms
Few British Columbia communities have been hit as hard by the forest industry crisis as Mackenzie. Some 1,500 jobs, by mayor Stephanie Killam’s estimate, have…
