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Marco Verch / Flickr” style=”border-radius:0px;–objectFit:cover;–imagePosX:50%;–imagePosY:50%” decoding=”async” srcset=”https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Opioid_Open_Ltr.jpg 900w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Opioid_Open_Ltr-300×133.jpg 300w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Opioid_Open_Ltr-768×341.jpg 768w” sizes=”(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px” />BC needs an opioid action plan: An open letter to the government of BC
CCPA-BC Director Seth Klein is a signatory to this open letter to the BC government calling for a provincial opioid action plan. The letter was…
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Time for a New Social Contract to Eradicate Child and Family Poverty
Halifax – The 2017 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia reveals that 35,870 children or more than 1 in 5 children…
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Canada’s largest companies prioritizing shareholder payouts over pension contributions
OTTAWA—Last year, Canada’s largest publicly-traded companies paid out four times more to shareholders than it would have cost to fully fund their defined benefit (DB) pension…
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2017 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia
Download 1.14 MB46 pages This year’s Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia identifies a slight decrease in child poverty, with 1,600 children…
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The Lion’s Share
Pension deficits and shareholder payments among Canada’s largest companies Download 328.47 KB26 pages This study examines the status of the defined benefit (DB) pension plans of…
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Volodymyr Kyrylyuk / iStock” style=”border-radius:0px;–objectFit:cover;–imagePosX:50%;–imagePosY:50%” decoding=”async” srcset=”https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pn_nov2017_BigTransportationInvestments.jpg 900w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pn_nov2017_BigTransportationInvestments-300×133.jpg 300w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pn_nov2017_BigTransportationInvestments-768×341.jpg 768w” sizes=”(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px” />Big transportation investments needed now in Metro Vancouver: Budget 2018
In Metro Vancouver, as the region’s population has grown so has its congestion problems. Whether enduring a long wait to cross a bridge or get…
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Challenges persist: Community-based mental health in BC
In 2006, I wrote the report, “Community Based Mental Health in BC: Changes to Income, Employment and Housing Supports” to explain policy changes that had…
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Tackle inequality through tax fairness: BC Budget 2018
Over the past decade and a half, BC’s tax system has become remarkably unfair. CCPA analysis shows that personal tax changes between 2000 and 2016—including…
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CCPA comments on the Omnitrax NAFTA lawsuit
Senior Trade Fellow Scott Sinclair, who directs the CCPA’s Trade and Investment Research Project, spoke to CBC Manitoba’s Ismaila Alfa on November 14 about Omnitrax’s…
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