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Poverty reduction: What other provinces are doing
BC has much to learn from other provinces when it comes to poverty reduction. Six provinces now have poverty reduction plans, although most are still…
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Vancouver’s poverty rate leads country
Thanks to Jean Swanson for drawing to my attention a new report from the Federation of Canadian Municipalities called Mending Canada’s frayed social safety net:…
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Healthy eating put out of reach for the poor
Remember the Premier’s “Great Golden Goal” (G3?) about healthy eating? True, we don’t hear so much about it these days. But it was a laudable…
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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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Yet another case of our government delaying the release of important data
Less than a week after BC’s Freedom of Information and Privacy Association (FIPA) report raised serious questions about secrecy in government (see Keith’s comments here),…
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Government report on welfare leavers at odds with narrative
Kudos to the Tyee’s Andrew MacLeod for extracting a long delayed report on welfare leavers from the provincial government. The report can be downloaded here.…
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The Premier speaks out on labour issues
On April 27th I posted about the BC Federation of Labour’s report on the impacts of changes to BC’s workers compensation system under the current…
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Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words
Or twenty thousand as the case may be. The CCPA published a number of major studies in recent years about BC’s unacceptably high levels of…
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BC leads country in rising EI claims
According to today’s Statscan release, unemployment insurance (EI) claims were up 47% in January 2009 compared to January 2008. This makes BC the leader in…
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Social assistance caseload way up
In our pre-budget Reality Check, we noted that a recession would lead to upwards pressure on social assistance expenditures. The 2009 Budget notes that every…
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Following the money in BC communities
It is one of those publications that few media outlets will report on, and even fewer British Columbians will read, but BC Stats just released…
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Why do BC kids need Finance Minister’s charitable donation to buy them shoes?
Minister Hansen donated money for shoes for poor children. Then he delivered a budget that doesn’t help parents who receive income assistance or who are…
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