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Upzoning Metro Vancouver’s Low-density Neighbourhoods for Housing Affordability

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Thursday, February 10, 2022
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It’s time to build the housing we need for the future of Metro Vancouver. 

To address the twin crises of housing affordability and climate change, the region specifically needs more “missing middle” housing between the extremes of detached (“single-family”) homes and large condo towers. An aggressive build-out of affordable housing region-wide is central to creating a more fair and vibrant economy that also rises to the challenge of the climate emergency. 

BC Solutions: News and commentary from the CCPA’s BC Office

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Tuesday, February 8, 2022
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  • Celebrating 25 years of the CCPA-BC
  • BC is subsidizing logging for pulp and pellet mills
  • CCPA in the news in 2021
  • LNG exports and GHG reduction goals
  • Updated CleanBC plan falls short
  • BC's horrific wildfire season
  • How to be fiscally responsible
  • Recent and upcoming publications
  • Living wage rises across BC
  • BC's human rights inquiry into hate incidents better late than never
  • Robust wealth tax could raise $363B
  • Recap of 2021 gala with Hayden King

Upzoning Metro Vancouver’s Low-density Neighbourhoods for Housing Affordability

Metro Vancouver needs more housing—specifically “missing middle” housing between the extremes of detached homes and large condo towers—to address twin crises of housing affordability and climate change. This report proposes a regulatory shift away from detached housing to allow higher-density development across the region.

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Higher-density development solution for housing affordability and climate change, new report

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Thursday, February 10, 2022

VANCOUVER — Metro Vancouver needs more housing—specifically “missing middle” housing between the extremes of detached homes and large condo towers—to address twin crises of housing affordability and climate change, says a report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives BC Office.

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Catching Up Together

Release Date: 
Thursday, February 3, 2022
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Two years of the pandemic have disrupted the learning and development of Ontario's elementary and secondary school students. In particular, households with lower incomes and fewer resources have been hit hard.

Bouncing back will require strong government resolve, new policies and the funding to back it up. 

Putting Continuity in Continuing Care

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Reimagining the Role of Immigration in the Recruitment and Retention of Healthcare Workers in Nova Scotia
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Tuesday, January 18, 2022
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Staffing shortages in Nova Scotia’s healthcare care system have become a full-fledged crisis. In particular, the need for continuing care assistants is urgent. 

Several recruitment strategies have been put in motion, including immigration streams to entice foreign healthcare workers and refugees already living in the province into these positions.

This paper critically examines the province's recruitment plans and the growing reliance on newcomers to address staff shortages. 

Our Schools/Our Selves - Winter/Spring 2022

The Crisis Continuum
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Wednesday, January 5, 2022

COVID-19 has been a devastating disruptor. It has laid bare the cumulative impact of subsequent waves of austerity—the true crisis of neglect that undermines our education system and that marks our society even as we happily share those “Meanwhile in Canada” videos. Neglect of the need to meet students where they’re at in order for them to thrive. Neglect of the funding and resources needed so that educators can support kids and communities in schools which are both places of work and places of learning.

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Another Year in Paradise

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CEO pay in 2020
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Tuesday, January 4, 2022
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Canada's top CEOs had another fruitful year, this time amid the misery of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

The country's 100 highest-paid CEOs from the S&P/TSX Composite recorded their second best year ever for compensation in 2020, according to the report.

These executives got paid an average of $10.9 million in 2020. They now make 191 times more than the average worker wage in Canada.

Big Oil in City Hall

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Climate and Energy Politics in the Queen City
Release Date: 
Wednesday, December 15, 2021
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32 pages
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Big Oil in City Hall: Climate and Energy Politics in the Queen City is the first comprehensive look at the oil industry’s lobbying and advocacy campaign against Regina city council's proposed fossil fuel sponsorship ban.