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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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Ted McGrath / Flickr” style=”border-radius:0px;–objectFit:cover;–imagePosX:50%;–imagePosY:50%” decoding=”async” srcset=”https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pn_apr2020_tent-cities.jpg 900w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pn_apr2020_tent-cities-300×133.jpg 300w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pn_apr2020_tent-cities-768×341.jpg 768w” sizes=”(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px” />Dismantling tent cities—why choice matters
[perfectpullquote align=”full” bordertop=”false” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]“When you live on the street long enough, eventually you stop believing in choices. Where you eat, sleep…
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Edna Winti / Flickr” style=”border-radius:0px;–objectFit:cover;–imagePosX:50%;–imagePosY:50%” decoding=”async” srcset=”https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pn_apr2020_progressive-macroeconomic-response.jpg 900w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pn_apr2020_progressive-macroeconomic-response-300×133.jpg 300w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pn_apr2020_progressive-macroeconomic-response-768×341.jpg 768w” sizes=”(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px” />A progressive macroeconomic response to the coronavirus crisis in British Columbia
While much of the world remains under strict lockdown and we have yet to determine the full extent of the already-unprecedented economic crisis caused by…
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Comparing provincial economic responses to COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the vital importance of collective responses via governments at all levels. The Canadian context of federalism, with a division of…
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This year’s tree-planting seedlings could end up a huge compost pile
For British Columbia’s tree-planting industry, COVID-19’s arrival came at the worst of times. This year was to be the industry’s great leap forward, the biggest…
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Time to end profit-making in seniors’ care
The coronavirus pandemic has shone a light on serious problems in Canada’s seniors’ care system, as nursing homes quickly became the epicenters of the outbreak.…
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BC should transition to 100% non-profit and public delivery of seniors care post-crisis: researchers
READ THE REPORT HERE. VANCOUVER — The coronavirus pandemic has shone a light on serious problems in Canada’s seniors care system and after the crisis…
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Who’s left out? COVID-19 & psychiatric detainees
For weeks, we’ve all been doing our best to follow guidelines about staying home and physical distancing to prevent the spread of COVID-19. But who…
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Digital equity and community solidarity during and after COVID-19
As many have noted, COVID-19 is an efficient illuminator of our society’s strengths and weaknesses; its progress accelerates in spaces of inequality and injustice. There…
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Time to extend financial supports to local governments
Local governments and regional authorities like TransLink have been missing from federal and provincial economic responses to COVID-19. Local governments are facing collapsing revenues, and…
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Excess profits tax needed to prevent profiteering amid COVID-19
People and businesses all over the country and the world are hurting as large parts of the economy have shut down to help stop the…
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Food insecurity and hunger during COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed holes in our social safety net and significant inequality across BC households. Much of the recent focus has been on…
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Taking stock of COVID-19 economic policy measures in BC
A multitude of measures have been tabled by the provincial and federal governments to prop up workers and an economy reeling from mandated closures of…
Ruth Hartnup
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