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  • Climate Justice Project

    Electricity conservation efforts should include high prices for large consumers, protection for low-income households

    If BC is going to meet its climate action targets, the province needs to shift away from natural gas and rely instead on clean electricity. Coupled with aggressive conservation and energy efficiency investments, this transition could be the source of new green jobs, particularly in the residential housing sector. The…

  • Coming Down from Mount Olympus

    National pride, to endure, must have a strong foundation The tidal wave of patriotism unleashed by our country’s performance in the Olympics is subsiding, but in most Canadians the euphoria lingers. Memories of our athletes’ feats at Vancouver and Whistler will be a wellspring of national pride for some time.…

  • Economic Security Project (BC)
    Seniors Care

    A home support worker on an Uncertain Future for Seniors

    https://vimeo.com/4153703 Accesible, high-quality care for seniors : this issue touches everyone at some point in their lives — seniors receiving health services, people caring for aging relatives, anyone who worries about what their own life will be like when they grow old. Carla talks about the challenges of helping seniors…

  • Economic Security Project (BC)

    Judy Graves on why welfare matters to everyone

    https://vimeo.com/3670669 Judy Graves is a housing advocate with the City of Vancouver in BC, Canada. Judy talks about why welfare (or social assistance) is so important — and not just to people who find themselves going through a rough time. This video is part of a slideshow about welfare (or…

  • Economic Security Project (BC)

    Susan Henry talks about poverty in Vancouver, Canada

    https://vimeo.com/3670687 Susan is an advocate at First United Church in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside — the poorest neighbourhood in Canada. The church lets homeless people take shelter and sleep in the pews. There are more than 2600 homeless people in Vancouver, BC, and the province of BC has the highest poverty…

  • Economic Security Project (BC)

    Richard talks about poverty and hope

    https://vimeo.com/3670615 Richard receives disability benefits through British Columbia’s welfare program. Disability benefits are very low (less than $1000 a month in a city where the average one bedroom apartment costs that much). Richard lived on the streets for many years while he waited to get into social housing — he…

  • Resource Economics Project (BC)

    Shortchanged

    https://vimeo.com/3842584 A short video featuring CCPA resource policy analyst Ben Parfitt discussing findings showing that startling numbers of usable logs are being left to rot or burn at logging sites, at a potential cost of thousands of forestry jobs and big increases in greenhouse gas emissions. Shortchanged: Tallying the Legacy…

  • Submission to the Minister of Finance Government of Manitoba On the 2002-2003 Provincial Budget

    Thank you for the opportunity to present our views on the province’s fiscal situation and the upcoming provincial budget. Once again this year we are preparing an Alternative Provincial Budget, which will be finalized and released in the months ahead. Context In last year’s Alternative Provincial Budget we ran a…

  • The Middle East Revolution (Part IV)

    Saudi Arabia helps crush the democratic uprising in Bahrain In a display of astounding hypocrisy in mid-August, the Saudi Arabian government denounced the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad as “a killing machine” and recalled its ambassador from Damascus. Saudi Arabia claimed to be outraged by the slaughter of an estimated…

  • May 2008: Forest Industry at a Crossroads (Part II)

    Stakeholder consensus is needed to rescue industry in crisis Part I of this essay provided a brief overview of the crisis in Canada’s forestry sector. Part II focuses on finding a way forward, briefly outlining directions and possibilities. This is by no means an exhaustive list of options, but rather…

  • The Latin American Revolution (Part X)

    Peruvian election win latest triumph for left-wing reformers Ollanta Humala’s victory in the Peruvian election held on June 5 is the latest triumph for the Latin American Revolution. Humala, a progressive ex-army officer, was elected President as leader of the Nationalist Party. This brings to eleven the number of left-wing…

  • Economic Security Project (BC)
    Public Interest Research Project (BC)

    A Poverty Reduction Plan for BC

    Download 751.9 KB 65 pages This report lays out a comprehensive poverty reduction plan for BC. In 2009, after the report was published, the CCPA-BC, along with other organizations, founded the BC Poverty Reduction Coalition, a province-wide group calling for a poverty reduction plan for BC with legislated targets and…