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A lot of AI discourse masks the fact that it is the result of a series of policy choices. Despite the government evoking Margaret Thatcher’s infamous “there is no alternative,” we do have a choice. And we should be serious about what that choice is.
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Resource Economics Project (BC)
Investing causes of social and environmental insecurity in resource-dependent communities
The B.C. Office’s Resource Economics Project is a special research desk staffed by award-winning journalist and researcher Ben Parfitt. This environmental justice initiative looks into the causes of economic and social insecurity in B.C.’s resource-dependent communities. It offers policy solutions aimed at meeting the joint challenges of environmental sustainability, jobs and social justice.
In February 2025, the CCPA closed its BC Office. However, most of the people formerly associated with the BC Office are continuing their work at a new organization—BC Policy Solutions. An amicable separation agreement has been reached between the two organizations, and we encourage people to continue to support the good work of both the CCPA and BC Policy Solutions. The CCPA continues to ensure the voices and concerns of British Columbians are included in its national independent research, analysis and expertise and BC Policy Solutions continues to support the CCPA’s important research work on issues affecting all Canadians.
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Over a decade, average BC wages fall below Canadian average
Every week the government publication BC Stats Infoline publishes a summary of usually pretty interesting things going on in British Columbia. They have a nice…
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The problems with the textbook analysis of minimum wages
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the sorry state of the BC minimum wage, stuck at $8 after nine years two months and still…
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BC’s $8 minimum wage sets another record (low)
Did you know that BC, the home of the lowest minimum wage in Canada, just recently became the province with the longest minimum wage freeze…
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Lib leadership contender ill informed or misleading on P3s
George Abbott has become the first of the BC Liberal leadership contenders to talk about the use of Public Private Partnerships (P3s) to deliver public…
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ILO points to low union density and low minimum wages as causes of economic collapse
One more major international organization has published a report commenting on the damage done by growing inequality in society. In December the International Labour Organization…
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A Challenge to BC’s Leadership Candidates: Dare to Be Bold and to Tell Us the Truth
Some thoughts on what I’d love to hear in the current leadership contests: As a number of fundamental crises become more apparent (ecological and economic,…
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The IPP Lobby’s Top Ten
The Vancouver Sun’s Gordon Hamilton reports that the IPP lobby, BC Citizens for Green Energy, has released a Letterman-like top ten reasons for the development of…
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Olympics – ‘Rousing Financial Success’?
Though not a true believer myself, I can think of a number of positive impacts from the 2010 Olympics. There was, without question, a community…
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Missing the Vote: Democratic Reform in BC
I’ve long thought that we should lower the voting age to 16, so thanks to Mike deJong for raising it in the BC Liberal leadership…
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UNICEF shames Canada for inequality among children
In an earlier blog Shannon Daub reported on Mark Milke’s assertion that inequality was a lot of humbug. UNICEF has published a report that shows…
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How fossils fuel campaigns
Kevin Falcon’s tour of northeast BC, heart of the province’s oil and gas industry, and his dissin’ of BC’s (modest but important) climate measures was…
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Opportunity will solve poverty, we can all get stinking rich if we work hard enough, and my pet unicorn is real
Mark Milke argues in today’s Vancouver Sun that massive and growing inequality is not a serious problem. In his mind, anyone concerned about the growing…
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