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VideoPlasty / Wikimedia Commons” style=”border-radius:0px;–objectFit:cover;–imagePosX:50%;–imagePosY:50%” decoding=”async” srcset=”https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pn_oct2018_SKChoices-300×133.jpg 300w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pn_oct2018_SKChoices-768×341.jpg 768w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pn_oct2018_SKChoices.jpg 900w” sizes=”(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px” />Getting to pro rep: How I plan to rank the options
Debunking the claims of proportional representation naysayers This post is part of a series explaining the benefits of proportional representation and debunking myths from the ‘No’ side of BC’s 2018 electoral reform referendum. More from the series is available at policynote.ca/pr4bc. During these weeks leading up to the electoral reform…
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mohamed hassan / Pxhere” style=”border-radius:0px;–objectFit:cover;–imagePosX:50%;–imagePosY:50%” decoding=”async” srcset=”https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pn_oct2018_prorep-indeed-minority-300×133.png 300w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pn_oct2018_prorep-indeed-minority-768×341.png 768w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pn_oct2018_prorep-indeed-minority.png 900w” sizes=”(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px” />Pro rep will indeed mean more minority governments — bring it on!
Debunking the claims of proportional representation naysayers This post is part of a series explaining the benefits of proportional representation and debunking myths from the ‘No’ side of BC’s 2018 electoral reform referendum. More from the series is available at policynote.ca/pr4bc. Among the fear-mongering claims of the ‘No’ side in…
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Think Upstream Radio: When the big employer ghosts a town – now what?
Oshawa is reeling from GM’s decision to stop auto production there. How does a community bounce back from such a jolt?
“We can’t be waiting with bated breath for the big company to say we will save you,” says Pearson. “As cities are abandoned, decline, and become hollowed out, access to social and economic opportunities diminishes along with the population: the jobs disappear, the doctor’s offices disappear, the grocery stores disappear…
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Fast Facts: All Aboard!
Moving Transportation Equity Forward in Winnipeg Transportation is essential for getting almost everything we need in our daily lives. Finding a job or getting to work, getting groceries, seeing friends and family, accessing healthcare or social services all require the ability to get there. But accessing transportation is a major…
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Harper’s Record on Immigration – Lawyers Weigh In
The following is cut and pasted from an email that is in circulation to lawyers, practitioners and academics regarding the Harper record on immigration. It does not address the rapid growth in the issuing of temporary foreign worker permits, particularly since the recession began. Harper’s record on that issue is…
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How fast can we get to 100% renewables?
This piece draws on research and a presentation in Vancouver by Mark Jacobson from Stanford University, who delivered the 2018 Gideon Rosenbluth Memorial Lecture. You can listen to the audio or watch a recording of the live video stream below, and you can download Mark’s slides here (PDF). It is…
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Trading Sovereignty for Surveillance
Danger rises of state interference with information flow In June 2010, the Harper government released a consultation paper which asked Canadians to comment on the possible impacts of increased foreign direct investment in the Canadian telecommunications sector. Although the paper clearly promoted potential economic benefits, the potential risks (which would…
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The Middle East Revolution (Part 1)
Uprisings a stunning blow to U.S. control of the Middle East “Fight like an Egyptian!” was the cry echoed by supporters of the Egyptian Revolution around the world when in 17 days the people of that country overthrew its 30-year-old dictatorship on February 11. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was forced…
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Jigsaw puzzle outlines: Psyon / Wikimedia Commons.” style=”border-radius:0px;–objectFit:cover;–imagePosX:50%;–imagePosY:50%” decoding=”async” srcset=”https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pn_Oct2018_speculation-tax-step-300×133.jpg 300w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pn_Oct2018_speculation-tax-step-768×341.jpg 768w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pn_Oct2018_speculation-tax-step.jpg 900w” sizes=”(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px” />BC’s speculation tax is a key piece of the housing affordability puzzle
The BC government has brought forward legislation to implement one of its major policy measures on housing: the speculation tax. In a defence of the tax earlier this year, we outlined why the speculation tax represents an important step in addressing the housing crisis. The tax covers a limited set of geographical areas in BC…
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Society’s most vulnerable denied needed care
Groundbreaking new study exposes the impact of federal and BC cuts to community-based health care CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) The BC Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives co-published a major new study today. Without Foundation: How Medicare is Undermined by Gaps and Privatization in…
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Medicare being undermined by privatization
What’s wrong with privatizing health care? Plenty. That’s the blunt conclusion of Health Care, Limited, a new synthesis report on the state of Canada’s health care system, prepared for the Council of Canadians by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Its conclusion? “Medicare can either be preserved or privatized. It…
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Housing platforms and platitudes in the 2018 Vancouver election
It should be no surprise that Vancouver’s growing housing affordability crisis is the top issue going into the election. All candidates are in favour of affordable housing, of course. Sorting out the chatter from concrete plans, however, can be difficult—not least because of the way Vancouver’s municipal politics has fractured…
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