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Austerity Kills: Conservative cure worst thing for what ails economy says Stiglitz
Governments around the world are heading down a path to economic suicide. So said Nobel Prize-winning former chief economist of the World Bank, Joseph Stiglitz, to hundreds of well-heeled financiers and decision-makers who paid a bundle to hear him in Toronto. With a voice as gruff as gravel, and an…
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What happened to the national home care program?
In 1997, after wide consultation across the country, the federal government’s National Forum on Health concluded that home care should be considered an integral part of publicly funded health services. A year later, the National Conference on Home Care identified home care as a vitally important component of a responsive…
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Marco Verch / Flickr” style=”border-radius:0px;–objectFit:cover;–imagePosX:50%;–imagePosY:50%” decoding=”async” srcset=”https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Opioid_Open_Ltr-300×133.jpg 300w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Opioid_Open_Ltr-768×341.jpg 768w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Opioid_Open_Ltr.jpg 900w” sizes=”(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px” />BC needs an opioid action plan: An open letter to the government of BC
CCPA-BC Director Seth Klein is a signatory to this open letter to the BC government calling for a provincial opioid action plan. The letter was coordinated by the Public Health Association of BC, a voluntary, non-profit, non-government, member-driven organization that provides leadership to promote health. Since April, 2016 when the…
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Message to Health Minister: Enough with the numbers game – it’s time to deal with serious problems in seniors’ care
With an election on, it’s no surprise that the provincial government is claiming success on everything from the environment to the economy. But one area where it hasn’t earned bragging rights is seniors’ care. The home and community health care system that seniors and their families rely on is in…
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October 2007: The Trouble With Inequality
“Wealth might trickle down if not for sponges at the top” When the CCPA earlier this year published The Rich and the Rest of Us, a report by Armine Yalnizyan on the growing income gap in Canada, reactions from the political right quickly followed. This was, of course, to be…
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Fast Facts: A closer look at childcare affordability in Manitoba
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press on February 13, 2019 A new report by CCPA National (Developmental Milestones: Child Care Fees in Canada’s Big Cities) on childcare fees contains very mixed reviews of Manitoba and raises important questions about public policy. A closer look complicates the congratulatory confidence that…
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Martince2 / iStock” style=”border-radius:0px;–objectFit:cover;–imagePosX:50%;–imagePosY:50%” decoding=”async” srcset=”https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pn_dec2018_WhoseWealth-300×141.jpg 300w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pn_dec2018_WhoseWealth-1024×480.jpg 1024w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pn_dec2018_WhoseWealth-768×360.jpg 768w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pn_dec2018_WhoseWealth.jpg 1280w” sizes=”(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px” />Whose wealth is it anyway? BC’s top 10 billionaires and the rest of us
Economic inequality has exploded in recent decades—globally, in Canada and here in BC. Much of our concern about inequality has focused on the growth of extreme disparities between the incomes of the very rich and those of us on the middle and lower rungs of the income ladder. But there’s…
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William Murphy/Flickr” style=”border-radius:0px;–objectFit:cover;–imagePosX:50%;–imagePosY:50%” decoding=”async” srcset=”https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pn_oct2017_BCBudgetMust-300×133.jpg 300w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pn_oct2017_BCBudgetMust-768×341.jpg 768w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pn_oct2017_BCBudgetMust.jpg 900w” sizes=”(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px” />BC Budget must go beyond small carbon tax increases to fight climate change
After many years of inaction, BC needs a new climate plan. The previous government’s August 2016 Climate “Leadership” Plan was more than a disappointment. Not only did it do little to reduce BC’s greenhouse gas emissions, the plan was written hand-in-hand with the fossil fuel industry. For many British Columbians,…
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What’s missing from the Uber debate? Market power, congestion, pollution, and even deaths
The BC government has introduced legislation expected to bring ride-hailing to the province late next year, though many questions remain about what the outcome will be in practice. A number of important policy details still need to be filled in by the Passenger Transportation Board and ICBC. Meanwhile the debate…
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Fast Facts: Steeling the NDP’s resolve
Migrant farm workers need access to public healthcare As spring unfolds in southern Manitoba, we will soon see more than migratory birds arriving. Over 400 Seasonal Agricultural Workers are about to arrive from Mexico to take up the back-breaking work of cultivating vegetable and berry crops on Manitoba’s farms. These…
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Forensic auditors say P3s expensive, biased and secret
So who are you going to believe about public private partnerships (P3s)? One side of the debate says they’re swell. They save money for taxpayers, they come in on budget and they transfer risk from governments to companies. But other people say details are kept secret from the public and…
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Jumping Off the Wireless Bandwagon
Canadians perilously overexposed to electromagnetic radiation After three days of hearings on the health impacts of Wi-Fi and wireless technologies, Canada’s Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health released a remarkably timid report — An Examination of the Potential Health Impacts of Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Radiation – last December. Judging from the fact…
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