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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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Poorly designed third party advertising rules chilled election debate, reduced voter access to information: Study
(Vancouver) A new study finds that BC’s third party advertising rules caused extensive problems for “small spenders” such as non-profits and charities during the 2009…
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Election Chill Effect
The Impact of BC’s New Third-Party Advertising Rules on Social Movement Groups Download Attachments: CCPA-BC_Chill_Effect_SUMMARY.pdf
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Which is more important, lower taxes or a higher minimum wage?
BC Labour Minister Murray Coell apparently got taken to the woodshed this week after telling a forum at the Union of BC Municipalities that his…
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We told you so: HST introduction a factor behind GDP drop in July
Among the concerns about the HST that we at the CCPA have raised was the poor timing of the tax change. From my pre-budget piece…
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New voices in support of a BC poverty reduction plan
Two important new voices joined the call for a BC poverty reduction plan in the last couple days. First, on Tuesday, BC Provincial Health Officer…
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So what’s a green job, anyway?
Today CCPA released a new report by myself and Ken Carlaw, an economist at UBC-Okanagan, called Climate Justice, Green Jobs and Sustainable Production in BC.…
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So What’s a Green Job, Anyway?
Today the CCPA released a new report by myself and Ken Carlaw, an economist at UBC-Okanagan, that looks at industrial and employment strategies the BC…
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Climate Justice, Green Jobs and Sustainable Production in BC
Attachments Climate Justice, Green Jobs and Sustainable Production in BC – SUMMARY
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Poverty Reduction: Even Alberta?
Currently, six provinces have official poverty reduction strategies either in place or (in the case of Manitoba) in development. BC, despite having the highest poverty…
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What will it take to bring smarter family policy to BC?
Did you know that the BC government has set a goal to reduce early childhood vulnerability to 15% by fiscal year 2015? You can hardly…
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Protecting the environment and social justice: you can’t have one without the other
A couple of weeks ago there was a conference in Vancouver on building a green economy. It was a conference with a difference. Organized by…
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A revenue negative carbon tax?
BC’s carbon tax was supposed to be “revenue neutral”, meaning all carbon tax revenue would be “recycled” to British Columbians through personal income tax cuts,…
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