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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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Is another Charter challenge on BC labour rights waiting in the wings?
While the BC government mulls over the Supreme Court’s recent landmark decision that Bill 29 is unconstitutional (because it infringes on health care workers’ right…
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The clock is ticking on homelessness and the Olympics
At the Vancouver Art Gallery is the official countdown clock for the 2010 Olympics: there are now well less than one thousand days left until…
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How big is Taylor’s heart?
Share that $4.1 billion surplus with poor kids BC Finance Minister Carole Taylor is approaching her political moment of truth with the provincial government’s whopping…
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Bill 48 strips workers of their basic rights
Study says bill should be repealed, and minimum employment standards restored for all workers READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Vancouver – Legislation that allows employers…
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Negotiating Without a Floor
Unionized Worker Exclusion from BC Employment Standards Download 731.95 KB44 pages
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Vicious downward spiral sees more coastal logs exported or left on ground to rot
Study reveals need for government action CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) Numerous opportunities to generate jobs from coastal forests are routinely squandered…
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A tree too far
Cookie-cutter responses to big problems have a way ofbackfiring, with the cure often proving worse than the disease. Theresponse to the mountain pine beetle attack…
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Over-cutting and Waste in BC’s Interior
A Call to Rethink BC’s Pine Beetle Logging Strategy Download 747.47 KB36 pages
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Trees and Jobs Wasted in Rush to Beat Beetle, Study Warns
Jointly issued by: BC Federation of Labour; BC Government and Service Employees’ Union; Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives BC Office; Communications Energy & Paperworkers Union…
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Fair Fares
Enhancing BC’s Transit Use and Affordability Download 584.74 KB 8 pages This Behind the Numbers report looks at transit reliance in Vancouver and the impact…
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Who Gets What from the 2007 BC Tax Cut?
Download 178.54 KB4 pages A Behind the Numbers report which breaks down just who will benefit from the tax cut in the 2007 provincial budget.…
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