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Cost of living—especially for housing—fuels affordability crisis and Metro Vancouver’s increasing living wage
VANCOUVER — A sharp increase in the region’s cost of living—primarily due to soaring housing costs and highlighting the region’s affordability crisis—has led Metro Vancouver’s living…
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Long-term Care Problems
Both residents and care providers denied fair treatment More, better-paid staff key to improved long-term care Long-term care in Canada fails to treat either residents…
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Barbarism Lite
Political assault on social rights is worsening inequality Looking back to the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 60 years ago, we can…
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Reflections on the Citizens’ Assembly
One of the most interesting stories behind BC’s Single Transferable Vote referendum is how we got there. The Citizen’s Assembly on Electoral Reform ran for…
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BC’s child care crisis IS an election issue
The provincial election is off and running, and once again families and communities know that childcare should be a high priority for every candidate in…
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School funding an election issue at the local level
It hasn’t particularly reached the level of a provincial election issue, but school funding is quietly percolating along as an issue at the local level.…
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Understanding the Link Between Welfare Policy and the Use of Food Banks
Download 400.98 KB34 pages This report examines who uses food banks in Canada and how food bank use relates to changes in government welfare policy.…
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Message to Health Minister: Enough with the numbers game – it’s time to deal with serious problems in seniors’ care
With an election on, it’s no surprise that the provincial government is claiming success on everything from the environment to the economy. But one area…
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Make poverty reduction the focus of economic stimulus plans
A growing chorus of voices from across BC is calling on all political parties to commit to a provincial poverty reduction plan with legislated targets…
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The Ghost of Elections Past (revised)
From our STV series in the new BC Commentary, UVic historian Ben Isitt looks to the past when he sees STV. UPDATE (April 30): It…
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BC’s economy and the Liberal platform
With my oped last week on the NDP platform making me less than popular over at NDP HQ, today the Sun published my take on…
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La récession qui frappe le plus fort depuis les années 30, selon une étude
CLIQUEZ ICI POUR CONSULTER LE RAPPORT. OTTAWA – La récession en cours frappe le Canada plus durement et plus rapidement que tout ralentissement antérieur et…
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Fast Facts: The Housing Crisis in Thompson
Download 491.09 KB 2 pages About the authorsCharlene LafreniereShauna MacKinnon
