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  • An Evaluation of Parental Perspectives on Children’s Education in Skownan First Nations

    Download 993.35 KB There is a substantive body of research that demonstrates the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment (Juarez, 2011; Huang, 2012). However, much of this research is based on mainstream populations, and there is limited knowledge of how Indigenous parents perceive their role in children’s educational outcomes. The purpose…

  • Economic Security Project (BC)

    Reductions in employment standards and enforcement amount to wilful neglect of province’s most vulnerable workers, says labour economist

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Vancouver) Numbers obtained from the BC Ministry of Labour show that sweeping changes to the employment standards system have dramatically undermined the province’s ability to enforce minimum protections for workers. David Fairey, a labour economist, obtained the information while doing research for a study released…

  • Let’s make day care a great place to learn

    CANADIANS ARE increasingly aware of how important the early years are to the development of children. We know that children’s future educational and career opportunities are influenced by their experiences as young children at home and in the care of others. Unfortunately, I think many of us still view child…

  • Look at the other side of the petrodollar coin

    Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty recently spoke publicly about the problems Canada’s oil-powered currency was causing for his province’s manufacturing industry. But his words were drowned out by pious outrage from petroleum advocates (led by Alberta’s politicking Premier Alison Redford). How dare he suggest that the bitumen boom could be anything…

  • May 2005: Embracing Canadian Values

    Being “pro-Canadian” means much more than being “anti-American” George W. Bush and his gang of neo-cons have inadvertently prompted Canadians to more closely examine their own very different take on the world. And they like what they see. There are those, of course, who dismiss this phenomenon either as “mindless”…

  • Resource Economics Project (BC)

    Is the province equipped to tackle the pine beetle’s long-term impact?

    As many British Columbians know, the province is witnessing one of its biggest logging booms in decades. More trees are falling than ever in the Interior, and will for years to come. But today’s boom presages a dark future wherein resource-dependent communities and the provincial treasury both will be hit…

  • Economic Security Project (BC)
    Seniors Care

    Long-term care and home health services in BC on steady decline

    Province-wide audit provides clear picture of cuts since 2001, documents lost beds READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. (Vancouver) Access to long-term care and home health services for BC seniors has decreased significantly over the past three years, in spite of rising pressures from an aging population and cuts to the…

  • Believe it or not — this time it’s not just about the money

    On Feb 11, Ken Dryden, the federal Minister of Social Development, will meet in Vancouver with his provincial and territorial counterparts to finalize the agreement for a new national child care program. Minister Dryden is optimistic and said recently in Regina that “Canadians are one step closer to having a…

  • November 2004: Who’s Keeping Tabs on Global Tests?

    $85 million on international tests? It’s a sponsorship-scandal-sized waste One day my daughter came home from high school saying the teachers were really angry at her and a few of her equally high-achieving friends for skipping a test that “didn’t even count.” “Must have counted for something,” I said. “Oh,…

  • Ottawa takes baby steps while BC backtracks on child care

    “I have tried 5 different babysitters. I wish I could send my child back to the daycare centre; he loved it there – but when we lost the subsidy we had to leave. We can barely pay our rent and buy food.” It may come as a surprise to hear…

  • December 2003: The Alternative Federal Budget

    AFB shows how a better budget would lead to a better world CCPA staff, research associates, economists and NGO activists are busily at work drafting our Alternative Federal Budget (AFB) for 2004. It will be unveiled shortly before federal Finance Minister John Manley tables his official budget in February. The…

  • A billion dollars of bogus carbon credits

    A story in today’s Vancouver Sun is disturbing, arguing that BC could make $1 billion from selling carbon offsets once the Western Climate Initiative gets underway. The projects are mostly in forest management and conservation, meaning less cutting and more sequestration of carbon in the forests themselves. The conservation part…