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CCPA and SFU win prestigious research grant
Project involving university and community researchers to study economic security in BC (Vancouver) The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (BC) and Simon Fraser University are launching a five-year project that will study changes to provincial public policies that impact the economic security of British Columbians. The project, which involves an…
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Moving on from the CCPA-BC: A Message from Seth Klein
Dear friends and CCPA-BC supporters, If you are reading this post, you’ve heard that I’ve decided to step down as the CCPA’s BC Director at the end of this year. I’ve been mulling over this decision for some time and it has been a difficult one. But it’s time for…
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Searching for affordable housing in the 2017 BC election platforms
Housing affordability is one of the top issues for voters in the 2017 election campaign, particularly for those in pricey Metro Vancouver. While most of the media attention has been on the jaw-dropping prices of residential real estate, a tight rental market has fuelled rising rents and renovictions, and the…
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Here’s how BC should protect app-based workers
The rise of the “gig economy” and on-demand work through digital platforms like Uber and Skip the Dishes has ignited the public debate about precarious work. Despite their high-tech image, digital platform firms employ practices that are familiar from centuries of insecure work, including compensating workers on a per-task basis,…
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COVID-19: It’s time to protect frontline workers
If COVID-19 has taught us anything, it’s that a lot of the people we pay the least are the ones we need the most. In the last two weeks, Canadians have come to appreciate the critical role of the workers in the “supply chain” that keeps us alive. From food…
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October 2007: Racism Remains A Problem
Why are people of colour having trouble getting good jobs? A recent population projection study done for the Department of Canadian Heritage predicts that by 2017 one in every five residents of Canada will be a member of what the government defines as “a visible minority.” This means that, in…
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Lessons from the 2013 BC Election: What’s a progressive research institute to do?
As I write, it has been just a few days since the provincial election. As was the case for most of you, the result was unexpected. We are still processing what it means for our work and rethinking some of our research plans. For those of us who engage in…
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Les écoles franco-ontariennes elles aussi débrayent : Les enjeux pour ces écoles
Conseil scolaire Postes d’enseignant éliminés d’ici 2023-2024 (scénario de 4 cours en ligne) Postes d’enseignant éliminés d’ici 2023-2024 (scénario de 2 cours en ligne) Conseil des écoles publiques de l’Est de l’Ontario (CEPEO) 64 62 Conseil scolaire Viamonde 39 38 CSC MonAvenir 61 59 CSC Providence 35 34 CSD catholique…
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Reality Check: Progress on child care in BC, 2012-2020
In the early days of the current BC election campaign child care took centre stage when NDP leader John Horgan recommitted his party to fully implement the $10aDay Plan1 if elected on October 24. Public discussion and commentary followed in the media and from other parties. Questions were raised about the…
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The Budget, Employment Insurance and the Unemployed
Following are the notes on which I based presentations to the Senate National Finance Committee on June 6 and the House of Commons Finance Committee on May 29. They summarize key CLC concerns with the Budget Implementation Bill. Lack of Consultation The significant changes to the Employment Insurance (EI) program…
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Our Schools/Our Selves – Winter/Spring 2020
Out of Sorts The winter/spring 2020 issue focuses on the ways in which the neoliberal education agenda and austerity governments are reshaping education across the country, and the impact of these changes on kids — particularly the most vulnerable — and communities. But it also illustrates the passion with which the public will defend…
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Fast Facts: Manitoba Minimum Wage workers in poverty, face precarious work – new report
A new report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Manitoba office finds Manitoba’s $11.65 hourly minimum wage is insufficient to bring all household types out of poverty, even when government transfers and subsidy programs are included. One of the purposes of minimum wage laws is to…
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