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Why the Metro Vancouver living wage is not enough for single parents and how to fix it
The living wage calculation is based on the needs of two-parent families with young children, but the idea behind it is that this wage would…
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Balanced Budget Legislation – another zombie policy returns from the dead
Ah, here we go again – when seeking to assert credibility as sound fiscal managers, governments reach for the tired gimmick of “balanced budget legislation”…
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A Conversation on Climate Justice
In February and March, the Climate Justice Project hosted This Changes BC: A Conversation on Climate Justice. Over four Saturdays, a group of 34 citizens from…
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Parents want to reduce their car use, so let’s invest in transit, walking and cycling infrastructure
There’s a popular belief that parents chauffeur their young children everywhere. And certainly parents have many reasons for preferring cars over other modes of transportation:…
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Discussing “Just Transition” with Karen Cooling
In late January, we at the CCPA came out with a paper about “just transition”—an approach that aims to minimize the impact of environmental policies…
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Fire the Auditor General for Local Government? It’ll cost us
When BC Community Minister Coralee Oakes fired the Auditor General for Local Government (AGLG) last week the issue that had been in the news was…
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Transit referendum: if no vote wins, what is Plan B?
I got my plebiscite ballot today and of course voted yes. Whatever you think of TransLink management, its governance, the rough and largely undefined edges…
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Seniors have major stake in transit referendum: Access to transportation a key factor for health, wellbeing
By Shannon Daub, Co-Director of the CCPA-BC’s Seniors Project, and Sandra (Sandy) James LEED AP MCIP CCPI, Director, Walk Metro Vancouver Society Between now and…
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BC minimum wage increase leaves workers in poverty
After close to three years of no change, the BC minimum wage was overdue for an increase. But the measly raise announced today falls far…
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Don’t pit generations against each other in transit referendum
The Georgia Straight published a column yesterday by Charlie Smith claiming that “selfish old people” will vote “no” in the upcoming transit referendum, depriving younger…
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Apples and oranges: Comparing BC and Ontario debt ratios
The February 18, 2015 edition of the Globe and Mail featured an article by the paper’s B.C. correspondent Gary Mason, which in part drew favourable…
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BC Budget 2015: Missed opportunity for climate change action
Global warming and the other ecological impacts of climate change threaten our health—our very survival. As the impacts of climate change unfold, society will face…
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