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Understanding Precarity in BC
Research and public engagement initiative investigating precarious work
The Understanding Precarity in BC (UP-BC) partnership is a research and public engagement initiative investigating precarious work and multi-dimensional precarity in British Columbia.
UP-BC is jointly led by Kendra Strauss, Director of Simon Fraser University’s Labour Studies Program and the Morgan Centre for Labour Research, and Iglika Ivanova, Senior Economist and Public Interest Researcher with the CCPA-BC. The project brings together four BC universities, 26 community-based organizations with deep connections to populations most impacted by precarity and more than 80 academic and community researchers and collaborators.
The goals of UP-BC are to generate much-needed data on the extent and nature of precarious employment in our province and to study the impacts of precarity on the lives of British Columbians so we can develop effective, evidence-based solutions to tackle it. We hope to encourage policy debate and further research with the ultimate goal of reducing systemic inequalities and enhancing the economic security of British Columbians.
The partnership is supported by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
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Pour Ramani, Kadiatou, Margarita, Dina et Nadège
Qu’elles s’appellent Ramani, Kadiatou, Margarita, Dina ou Nadège, qu’elles viennent de l’Inde, de la Guinée, du Salvador, du Maroc ou d’Haïti, qu’elles habitent au Québec…
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Arrêter de payer pour la F1
On apprenait récemment que les trois paliers de gouvernement allaient investir 98,5 millions de dollars afin d’assurer la tenue du Grand Prix de Montréal entre…
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100 000 personnes sortant de la pauvreté : attention aux pièges
PIB = 288. Croissance = 518. Pauvreté = 47. Inégalités = 2.C’est le nombre de fois que reviennent ces expressions dans le budget du Québec…
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L’hydroélectricité : grande porteuse de développement au Québec?
Dans les derniers jours, je me suis intéressé au plus récent livre de Normand Mousseau intitulé Gagner la guerre du climat : douze mythes à déboulonner…
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The Saskatchewan Party’s Secret Fiscal Fantasy
The government’s decision to cut personal and corporate income taxes, while increasing and expanding sales taxes has many people scratching their heads.
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Les écoles privées du Québec à l’abri de l’austérité
Le monde scolaire québécois est parcouru par une séparation nette entre le réseau public et les écoles privées. Après l’application des mesures d’austérité par le…
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Out of the locker room: violence against women is not your circus
In the time it took the moderators the US presidential debate to shut down the last microphone, just over three hundred girls were born to…
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The Liberal Party of Quebec is already planning the next series of setbacks
In mid-September, the Liberal Party of Quebec —not to be confused with its federal counterpart— held its fourth Forum des idées (“Idea Forum”). Over the course of…
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The Couillard Government: A Mid-Term Review | Part II: What Was Left Behind
In the first post of this two-part series, I looked into traditional indicators, those that the government uses to assess its own policies: GDP growth,…
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The Couillard Government: A Mid-Term Review | Part I: The Mediocre Failure
After two years of Liberal rule in Quebec under Premier Philippe Couillard, it’s time for a mid-term review. Let’s look at empirical data to see…
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Methane Emissions from Fracking: Clean LNG’s Dirty Secret
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Can an electoral system change?
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