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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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Summer reading: two experts on privatization
Policy Note has asked CCPA Research Associates who contribute to the blog to suggest some ideas for summer reading. I am going to cheat a…
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2010 Living Wage Update: Reflecting the real costs of raising a family in Metro Vancouver
Families who work for low wages face impossible choices — buy clothing or heat the house, feed the children or pay the rent. The result can be…
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The job market may be recovering but some jobs are not coming back
A recent article in The New York Times illustrates this point with the story of an unemployed administrative assistant in her 50s, who has not…
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Problems for the South Fraser Perimeter Road P3?
There are some interesting recent developments on the South Fraser Perimeter Road (SFPR) public private partnership project. A press release issued Friday afternoon announced the…
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BC’s reforestation crisis
In less than a decade, British Columbia has gone from environmental leader to environmental laggard in stewarding one of our most important natural resources. And…
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Living Wage 2010
This morning CCPA-BC released a new study with First Call: BC Child and Youth Advocacy Coalition, and the Metro Vancouver Living Wage for Families Campaign.…
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Working for a Living Wage 2010
Making Paid Work Meet Basic Family Needs in Metro Vancouver Download 418.69 KB8 pages Please note: The updated 2019 Living Wage report is now available. Attachments Working for…
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2010 living wage shows the real costs of raising a family in Metro Vancouver
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. VANCOUVER – $18.17 is the 2010 family living wage, according to a report released today that calculates an hourly wage…
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BC opens door to private jails
The BC government has taken the next step down the privatization road by opening the door to private prisons. On April 28th Partnerships BC posted…
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Job creation alone will not solve BC’s poverty problem
Whenever he’s confronted with questions about BC’s record high child poverty rates or by the growing income inequality in the province, our Premier maintains that…
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The Clean Energy Act – adding insult to injury
I don’t follow the provincial legislature closely enough to judge whether the proposed Clean Energy Act is the worst legislation the Liberals have introduced since first…
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Reforestation crisis, Ministry of Forests job cuts: op eds by the CCPA and allies
The coalition of environmental groups and unions that published Managing BC’s Forests for a Cooler Planet in January continues to work together. Over the past…
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