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Working toward a socially and economically just British Columbia
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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Copenhagen and carbon budgets
As Copenhagen heads into week two, most of the talk has shifted to targets and timelines, typically something like X% of emissions by 2020 or…
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AG’s office changes policy
BC’s Auditor General has made an important change in the way his office does its work that will help guarantee the independence of his office.…
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Poverty and BC’s high cost of housing
BC Stats put out a release on poverty lines as they relate to BC, with an important finding: BC’s dubious position as having the highest…
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Every revolution is about power
So what does a sustainable economy really look like, and how do we get there? Climate change essentially means a huge mitigation effort on greenhouse…
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Vancouver City Budget Woes: Are the Cuts Really Necessary?
In this round of municipal budgeting, the city of Vancouver finds itself in exactly the same predicament as the federal and provincial governments faced earlier…
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Technology and the future of public health care
A couple years ago I put out a report for the CCPA that crunched the numbers on health care sustainability (BC version here). The main…
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How high should the minimum wage be?
At the BC NDP convention over the weekend, Carole James reiterated calls for a $10 an hour minimum wage. While $10 an hour would certainly…
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And the Question is???
The recently announced Green Energy Task Force reminds me of a story that soft energy path guru Amory Lovins liked to tell. It was about…
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Flawed analysis props up BC public private partnerships
Many will have heard Premier Gordon Campbell and his cabinet colleagues talk in glowing terms about public private partnerships (P3s) for major projects like hospitals,…
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Food Bank use takes a distressing jump
On Tuesday, Food Banks Canada (the national association of food banks) released its annual Hunger Count report. While the report received some good national coverage…
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Public or private – how the choice for P3s gets made
Did you ever wonder how Partnerships BC justifies using 35 year contracts for public private partnerships rather than borrowing the money publicly and doing things…
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On minimum wages and talk radio
Today marks the third time in the past four months that I get booted off a pre-arranged radio interview on minimum wages in BC. What…
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