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  • Research for Communities: Home-ownership for Low-Income Households

    Outcomes for families and communities Download 466.49 KB59 pages

  • Report points to “gaping hole” in BC’s system of human rights protection

    Researchers call for an independent Human Rights Commission as BC fails to meet Canadian and international standards READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Vancouver—Today is International Human Rights Day. But what does that mean here in BC, the only province in Canada without a human rights commission? A new report published…

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    Climate justice and the BC carbon tax: 20th Anniversary retrospective

    BC’s carbon tax was announced in February 2008, a year after the landmark February 2007 Throne Speech that focused extensively on climate change. That set in motion a whole-of-government exercise out of the Premier’s office aimed at developing a climate action plan. (See my ten-year retrospective here.) At the time,…

  • Basic income panel calls for major reforms to income security in BC

    When the final report of BC’s Basic Income Panel came out in January, the media coverage was largely reduced to a few dismissive headlines that the panel had rejected basic income. Behind the headlines, however, is a comprehensive and thoughtful analysis of the state of poverty in BC and the…

  • Corporate Mapping Project

    Fossil-Power Top 50 launched

    Who’s who of Canada’s fossil fuel industry in a publicly accessible database (VANCOUVER) What do Suncor, Encana, the Royal Bank of Canada, the Fraser Institute and 46 other companies and organizations have in common? They are among the entities that make up the most influential fossil fuel industry players in…

  • Red markers indicate dams currently being reviewed by the EAO’s office; yellow markers indicate water licences that Progress Energy applied for on December 23 of last year and where dams already existed.

    A Dam Troublesome Exception: Progress Energy’s dams should not be exempted from environmental review

    I sent the following letter to BC’s Environmental Assessment Office (EAO) in response to Progress Energy’s extraordinary request to retroactively exempt the Lily and Town dams from environmental reviews. Such reviews should have been conducted before the dams were built. Not only did those reviews not happen, but the company…

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    Making it easier for Ontarians to drink more isn’t a good idea

    As 7-Eleven applies to serve beer and wine in 61 stores across Ontario, spare a thought for alcohol policy experts. Around the world, scholars have done extensive research into drinking and its effects. It’s important work: Alcohol, while often enjoyable, is not good for us. It’s addictive. It’s linked to…

  • Canada backsliding on climate policy in face of rising climate threats: report

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA—As Canadians from coast to coast to coast grapple with record-breaking wildfires, floods and other extreme weather events, a new report finds that many Canadian governments—at both the federal and provincial level—are moving in the wrong direction on climate policy. The study, co-published by the…

  • Research for Communities: Inner-City Refugee Women

    Lessons for Public Policy Download 939.86 KB4 pages Attachments Research for Communities: Inner-City Refugee Women: Lessons for Public Policy

  • Fast Facts: Crowd Funding For Public Education? 

    Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press Dec 5, 2022 Students knocking on doors to fundraise for classroom books, school libraries, and general school supplies was already a strange practice. After all, these are basic educational materials essential to schooling that should be fully funded through the provincial education budget.…

  • Transcript of an interview with Armine Yalnizyan on Sunday Edition

    ROY ROMANOW (Commissioner, The Future of Health Care): As you know it was just a year and a half ago that the Prime Minister established the Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada and gave me the honour of serving as its sole commissioner. I must stop there…

  • Modular housing for LNG Canada workers, Kitimat BC/ Photo credit Marc Lee

    Fracking in BC’s northeast

    Last summer I got out of Vancouver and toured northern BC. While the trip was mostly for pleasure, my inner economist could not resist some industrial tourism and visits to resource towns and major industrial sites that are the heart and soul of BC’s resource economy. Forestry dominates near Prince…