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Poverty reduction: What other provinces are doing
BC has much to learn from other provinces when it comes to poverty reduction. Six provinces now have poverty reduction plans, although most are still…
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Off the Highway by Mette Bach: politics and memoir
Another suggestion for summer reading: brand new from local publisher New Star Books: Off the Highway by Mette Bach, a short (about 80 pages) memoir…
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Some issues arising from the special advisor’s report on the Vancouver School Board
The special advisor appointed by the provincial government to look at the finances of the Vancouver School Board reported on Friday and a number of…
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‘Green’ Summer Reading
As I was wandering through the airport this spring I succumbed to my one true addiction: books. Yes, I know that a good environmentalist uses…
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View from the Top: Income Inequality in BC
A fascinating, and shocking, literature on the incomes at the very top of the distribution has emerged in recent years. Typically, Statistics Canada only reports…
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Legislative review of FOI Act narrow and timid
A legislative committee reviewing BC’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act reported on May 31st and the results were disappointing. They certainly did…
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BC Commentary: A Review of Provincial Social and Economic Trends
Spring 2010, Volume 13, Number 2 Download 928.37 KB Inside this issue: Add Your Voice to the New Call for a Poverty Reduction Plan by…
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Child poverty: How does BC stack up against those provinces with a plan?
A week ago, I appeared before the BC Legislature’s Standing Committee on Children and Youth. The committee, to its credit, had decided to spend a…
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Early indicators of how the recession has hit BC’s poor
Just wanted to draw readers’ attention to a great op-ed piece in The Province newspaper this past Thursday: “Recession slammed BC’s poor; and it’s not…
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Buying off industry
At first glance, the response of the forest sector and other large energy users to the province’s Clean Energy Act was surprising. Here is an Act…
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Privacy, Facebook and a New Information and Privacy Commissioner
Sometimes personal and policy issues collide or at least slide in side-by-side. That happened for me when the BC Legislature appointed Elizabeth Denham as the…
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Child Poverty and the Need for a Comprehensive BC Poverty Reduction Plan
Presentation to the BC Legislature’s Select Standing Committee on Children and Youth Download 204.47 KB5 pages
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