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Established in 1997, the CCPA’s BC Office investigates key challenges facing our province through independent research, analysis and expertise. We propose real, workable solutions, and share our findings as widely as possible to advance social, economic and environmental justice – and to challenge the message that there is no alternative.
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martince2 / iStock” style=”border-radius:0px;–objectFit:cover;–imagePosX:50%;–imagePosY:50%” decoding=”async” srcset=”https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pn_jun2018_LowPropertyTaxes.jpg 900w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pn_jun2018_LowPropertyTaxes-300×133.jpg 300w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pn_jun2018_LowPropertyTaxes-768×341.jpg 768w” sizes=”(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px” />Low property taxes help fuel housing crisis
In the wake of February’s BC Budget, property taxes have been making headlines. But less attention has been paid to the province’s unusually low property…
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British Columbians shortchanged billions from fossil fuel industry revenues
Earlier this year, Premier John Horgan announced that the British Columbia government was prepared to offer billions of dollars in tax breaks to Royal Dutch…
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CCPA calls on Auditor General to investigate stunning $1-billion annual increase in provincial natural gas-drilling subsidy program
VANCOUVER – An unprecedented increase in a special “credit” account set up by the BC government to subsidize the fracking industry should be immediately investigated…
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Mark Klotz / Flickr” style=”border-radius:0px;–objectFit:cover;–imagePosX:50%;–imagePosY:50%” decoding=”async” srcset=”https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pn_may2018_TrudeauGovernmentJustification.jpg 900w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pn_may2018_TrudeauGovernmentJustification-300×133.jpg 300w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pn_may2018_TrudeauGovernmentJustification-768×341.jpg 768w” sizes=”(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px” />Trudeau government justification for purchasing Trans Mountain project based on false premises
So how sound are the claims being used to justify the federal government’s expenditure of up to $12 billion in taxpayer funds to purchase Kinder…
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Scott Lough / Flickr” style=”border-radius:0px;–objectFit:cover;–imagePosX:50%;–imagePosY:50%” decoding=”async” srcset=”https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/PN_may2018_caribou-1024×480.jpg 1024w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/PN_may2018_caribou-300×141.jpg 300w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/PN_may2018_caribou-768×360.jpg 768w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/PN_may2018_caribou.jpg 1280w” sizes=”(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px” />Threatened caribou further endangered: Suppressed audit shows Oil and Gas Commission undermining provincial efforts to save species
On an April morning in 2014, members of the Fort Nelson First Nation tucked into a helicopter to begin a day of flying to fossil…
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Fossil fuel companies broke numerous rules intended to protect threatened caribou, suppressed report shows
VANCOUVER – BC’s Oil and Gas Commission sat on a damaging audit for nearly four years that showed companies that drill and frack for natural…
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From housing market to human right: A view from Metro Vancouver
Submission to the Government of Canada, National Housing Strategy public consultations Download 1.97 MB7 pages This submission was made to the Government of Canada’s consultation on National Housing…
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Deep poverty: BC government can—and should—end it
The BC government’s public consultations into the development of a poverty reduction plan have ended. Now the ideas and recommendations from hundreds of British Columbians…
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A carbon budget framework for BC: Achieving accountability and oversight
When it comes to climate change Canada’s leaders have been great at setting targets for far into the future and then failing to meet them.…
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BC Solutions: News and commentary from the CCPA’s BC Office
May 2018 Download 2.61 MB12 pages In this issue: Standing up to the corporate backlash Research and commentary on Kinder Morgan Relax. Employer health taxes…
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Death of the Oil Weapon
Alberta’s threat last month to cut oil supplies to British Columbia and thereby cause gasoline prices to spike is not an original idea. It is…
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Government wrong to exclude farm workers from basic minimum wage protection
A crowded van picks up an elderly Punjabi grandmother. After a 45-minute unpaid ride to the farm, she picks blueberries in the hot sun for…
Mark Klotz
Scott Lough
Chris Yakimov
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