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  • 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…

  • Record-breaking CEO pay now 209 times more than average worker

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA – For the first time, Canada’s 100 highest paid CEOs netted 209 times more than the average worker made in 2016, according to a new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). The report shows the country’s highest 100 paid CEOs on…

  • New labour legislation to continue gig worker precarity

    Gig work is widely recognized as having all of the characteristics of precarious employment: typically temporary, part-time or casual, low paid, lacking in predictable work hours and job security without health and welfare benefits and protections.  Research into precarious gig work in BC has revealed that app-based ride-hail and food…

  • Ontario Alternative Budget

    Ontario plan for building hospitals could be pricey: Study

    Government cost savings estimates overstated READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. TORONTO – Ontario taxpayers could be saddled with $585 million in higher costs due to the provincial government’s decision to let private sector bidders oversee 14 hospital projects, says a study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) and…

  • Ontario budget throws down the election gauntlet

    In its waning days before a June election, with the opposition breathing down its neck, the Ontario government threw down the gauntlet with what is unquestionably a pull out all the stops election budget. The marquee item was announced yesterday after weeks of big announcements: if re-elected, the government would…

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    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 the global coronavirus pandemic, it is not too early to start thinking about the way out of the crisis. So many people have seen their…

  • Contracting Out: Enough to make you sick

    There is now an accumulation of evidence, both international and domestic, that contracting out is good — but only if you happen to own shares in MDS, Sodexho, LifeLabs, Compass, Aramark or any number of other piggybackers. Unfortunately, if you are merely a patient, taxpayer and/or hospital worker you are…

  • The concerning rise of corporate medicine

    Public contracts with corporate clinics top $393 million over last six years, including surgical centres engaged in unlawful extra-billing Download 993.1 KB 15 pages Private surgeries and medical imaging are big business in BC. Over the last two decades, this for-profit sector has benefited from increased outsourcing of publicly funded…

  • Open letter on regulating platform work from BC experts in labour law, policy and economics

    The following is an open letter released today led by the CCPA–BC and the Centre for Future Work. It is signed by 61 leading experts in labour law, policy and economics (signatories listed below). The letter urges the BC government to implement strong measures to ensure that ride-share and food…

  • Under-regulated, under-researched and largely privatized: Assisted living seniors’ care in BC

    COVID-19 has shone a light on serious problems in our seniors’ care system resulting from years of underfunding, privatization and precarious working conditions. These problems are not isolated to long-term care, however. New research published today looks specifically at the state of assisted living here in BC, and concludes a…

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    Social and Economic Trends: Taking Stock of Manitoba’s Social Housing Plan

    In 2017 the federal government announced a 10-year, $40 billion National Housing Strategy (NHS) to “help reduce homelessness and improve the availability and quality of housing for Canadians in need”.  The strategy aims to “remove 530,000 Canadians from housing need and reduce chronic homelessness.” The NHS requires cooperation from provincial…

  • Fast Facts: Still Waiting for the Thaw

    Just like the ice and snow that refuse to go away this April, the provincial government is frozen into a perennial cycle of cutting revenue and then scrambling to make up for the shortfall. Uncertainty around whether we will have yet another flood this year calls for some pretty rigorous…