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Temporary Foreign Worker Program Takes Jobs Away from Canadians
Yet another report, this time by SFU Public Policy Professor Dominique M. Gross, finds evidence that Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program is bad for domestic…
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With BC’s job market stalled, it’s time for a jobs plan that actually works
The latest BC job numbers reveal a picture of persistently high unemployment and stalled job creation. Since January, BC’s unemployment rate has been on a…
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Reality check on government spending: is the overspending fear mongering justified
Both main parties in this election campaign are accusing the other of being big spenders. The BC Liberals claim the BC NDP is making election…
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Living Wage Policy: Why Municipal Governments should lead the way
By Michael McCarthy Flynn and Seth Klein The Living Wage for Families Campaign, along with 54 organizations representing over 300,000 British Columbians, recently issued an…
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Food Bank use takes a distressing jump
On Tuesday, Food Banks Canada (the national association of food banks) released its annual Hunger Count report. While the report received some good national coverage…
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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…
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Poverty reduction and the party platforms
The CCPA is a member of the BC Poverty Reduction Committee, the network that has been pressing all the BC political parties to commit to…
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There is more to good economic policy than protecting the interests of employers
Next week’s election will take place in the midst of an economic crisis which hit our province seemingly out of the blue last fall and…
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BC’s soaring EI claims
Today’s Statistics Canada release features the latest (February 2009) stats on Employment Insurance claims. From February 2008 to February 2009, the number of EI beneficiaries…
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The NDP Platform and BC’s Economic Challenges
Below is an oped of mine that was done at the request of the Vancouver Sun and that ran in today’s paper. Unfortunately, for reasons…
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March unemployment hits women and young
There is an interesting side story to the information that came out last week showing a big jump in unemployment in BC. Almost all of…
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Unemployment surges again in March
Just in time for a heated election campaign, the latest unemployment numbers paint a grim picture for BC. Just a year ago, BC was coasting…
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