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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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    Climate justice and the BC carbon tax: 20th Anniversary retrospective

    BC’s carbon tax was announced in February 2008, a year after the landmark February 2007 Throne Speech that focused extensively on climate change. That set…

  • Legal Aid Denied: A 20th Anniversary retrospective

    Legal Aid Denied: Women and the Cuts to Legal Services in BC was written in 2004 shortly after the election of a neo-conservative Liberal government…

  • Employment supports and labour market participation: 20th Anniversary retrospective

    From 2001 to 2003, BC’s new Liberal government instituted significant policy reforms in the delivery and governance of public services. In 2004, Simon Fraser University…

  • Ten tax myths revisited: 20th Anniversary retrospective

    In October 1999, I wrote the report Ten Tax Myths. Any retrospective on this issue must examine the relationship between research and analysis and the…

  • April 2004: HEU workers' rights violated by Bill 37 that imposed massive wage rollbacks on 43,000 hospital and long-term health care workers. Photo Credit: HEU

    20 years later: How corporations took over Canada’s health care system

    Caring for Profit: How corporations are taking over Canada’s health care system was published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) and New Star…

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