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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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Don’t pit generations against each other in transit referendum
The Georgia Straight published a column yesterday by Charlie Smith claiming that “selfish old people” will vote “no” in the upcoming transit referendum, depriving younger generations of a decent quality of life and an opportunity to act on climate change. We were shocked by the inflammatory tone of the article,…
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November 2003: Corporate Crime Goes Unpunished
Canada’s appalling work safety record among the world’s worst Every time a police officer is killed by a criminal, it makes front-page news. The funeral is attended by law enforcement officers from across the country. The bravery of the slain crime-fighter is lauded in newspaper editorials, and condolences for the…
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In growing good jobs for BC’s economy, we’ve been neglecting a key ingredient
As the promise of British Columbia’s liquefied natural gas bubble has begun to deflate, the conversation on how to grow good jobs in BC’s economy has been overlooking a key ingredient: food. A recent report by researcher Brent Mansfield issues a wake up call for the province’s current and long-term…
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February 2007: “More Time For Daddy”
Quebec leads the way with its new parental leave policy Leave related to the birth or adoption of a child includes maternity leave, paternity leave, and parental leave. In Canada, there was a change in parental leave in 2001, which basically extended the leave from six months to approximately one…
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Toxic landslides into the Peace River continue, add to fears about impacts of Site C and fracking
Toxic heavy metals, including arsenic, barium, cadmium, lithium and lead, are flowing unchecked into the Peace River following a series of unusual landslides that may be linked to natural gas industry fracking operations. The landslides began nearly two years ago and show no sign of stopping. So far, they have…
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Will an aging population bring BC’s health care system to its artificial knees?
One argument you are likely to hear in BC’s new “conversation on health” is that public health care is unsustainable because our population is aging and seniors use a disproportionate amount of health care services. But before we hit the collective panic button, let’s take a look at the facts.…
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Fast Facts: Can a Housing First Initiative Work?
Homelessness is a major problem in Winnipeg. In 2014 the Winnipeg Poverty Reduction Council estimated that at any time approximately 350 individuals stayed in one of Winnipeg’s homeless shelters, 700-1,000 individuals were in single room occupancy hotels, and 1,400 stayed with friends or family in order to avoid living on…
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Fast Facts: The Return of Bell Canada
It has taken more than a century, but Bell Canada has returned to Manitoba. In 1908, the government of Manitoba purchased Bell Canada’s local operations and turned them into the Crown Corporation we knew as Manitoba Telephone System (MTS). Last week’s news that Bell Canada Enterprises (BCE) would buy Manitoba…
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How to create good jobs in BC
Five years have passed after the end of the Great Recession but both BC and Canada as a whole are very far away from a meaningful recovery in the labour market. Headline unemployment rates are not terrible (6.1% in BC and 6.8% in Canada) but fewer people are looking for…
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April 2006: Selling Off Our Country
Takeovers place key Canadian industries in foreign hands In the late 1960s and throughout the first half of the 1970s, Canadians became increasingly concerned about the already high and rapidly increasing level of foreign ownership in Canada, which had reached over one-third of all non-financial industry corporate assets and over…
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BC needs comprehensive mental health strategy with focus on income, housing and employment supports: Professor
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Vancouver – An Assistant Professor of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University is calling on the provincial government to re-think its approach to mental health care. “In recent years, we’ve seen cuts to a host of social services and changes to mental health care,” says…