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  • Fast Facts: Budget 2016 – the waiting game

    It will take more than one budget – hastily prepared – to fully appreciate the Conservatives’ master plan, but the Throne Speech, a fiscal update and Ministerial mandate letters tell us what we should be keeping our eye on. Finance Minister Friesen’s dire warnings about the size of the deficit…

  • How the rules got fiddled to make sure a public private partnership got pushed through

    In 2008 British Columbia’s controversial public private partnership (P3) program was in trouble. With P3s private companies put up financing for public services and infrastructure and in exchange get to manage the projects with guaranteed profits for decades.  The cost of private finance was always higher than if government borrowed…

  • Voters reject private hospitals in Sweden

    Last summer, the Canadian media was awash with stories about how the socialist Swedes had supposedly turned their back on public ownership. Most notably, they were said to be selling their major public hospitals to corporations. Not surprisingly, researchers associated with right-wing think tanks were quick to jump on the…

  • For-profit infant child care fees 2.6 times higher in Winnipeg than non-profit fees: New study

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. WINNIPEG/OTTAWA—Full-time licensed child care in most Canadian cities is struggling under the financial burden of COVID-19—registering a dramatic drop in enrolment while for profit centre parent fees remain unaffordably high, according to a new study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). Sounding the…

  • Sheila Malcolmson, Minister of Social Development and Poverty Reduction. © BC Government.

    People in poverty need policy solutions, not a report card 

    Last week, the BC Government released the first update to the Poverty Reduction Strategy since the inaugural plan in 2019. As organizations long committed to ending poverty in BC, we hoped to see plans for how the government would achieve the targets that they set in the spring—reducing the overall…

  • Labour Matters
    Manitoba Research Alliance

    Hard Infrastructure, Hard Times

    Workers Perspectives on Privatization and Contracting out of Manitoba Infrastructure Download 1.67 MB108 pages   For several years, the Manitoba government led by the Progressive Conservatives has been pushing hard to reduce the number of government workers, while transferring work and contracts to the private sector. This report examines the…

  • Seniors Care

    Seniors Fact Sheet: Health Care

    <Click here to download this fact sheet in English (PDF)> <Haga clic aquí para ver la versión española (PDF)> <Click here to download this fact sheet in Chinese (PDF)> Caring for BC’s aging population: Improving health care for all   Introduction British Columbia’s seniors population is growing. How we can…

  • BC Hydro

    Losing sight at Site C

    Court documents and FOI materials show BC Hydro knew shale would move at troubled construction project, yet Hydro proceeded with river diversion BC Hydro approved the pouring of massive amounts of concrete to build a buttress at its problem-plagued Site C dam project months before a critical drainage tunnel was…

  • New Canada Infrastructure Bank plays poker with public assets

    The federal government’s promised Canada Infrastructure Bank is supposed to be a new government institution to fund infrastructure projects, but it’s a risky gamble.While details on the infrastructure bank are expected in the upcoming federal budget, we know it is being positioned as a new source of funds dedicated to…

  • Failing Grade: Manitoba Poverty Reduction Strategy and Budget 2019

    Download 326.39 KB 12 pages “I grew up poor. I appreciate the reality that many Manitobans face. It’s very difficult for many Manitobans right now. The month runs out a lot of times after the money has run out…. I want to work with anyone who wants to address the…

  • Canada’s immigration system is failing migrant care workers

    COVID-19 has worsened the precarious, sometimes abusive working conditions for migrant care workers—most of whom are women and racialized peoples.

    COVID-19 has worsened the precarious, sometimes abusive working conditions for migrant care workers—most of whom are women and racialized peoples.

  • Cancel private hospitals

    Prominent economists say P3 hospitals threaten medicare READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Toronto – Four prominent economists and a former director of audit operations with Canada’s Auditor General released a report today that is sharply critical of controversial “public-private-partnership” (P3) hospital proposals. The report commends the new provincial government for…