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  • Ontario Alternative Budget

    No mystery behind crisis in Ontario hospitals: Study

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT The claim that health spending in Ontario is out of control has no factual basis, according to a study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ Ontario Alternative Budget Project. The research paper, entitled “Ontario’s Health Spending: Bleeding Our Hospitals,” contains…

  • Why American doctors are calling for Canadian-style medicare

    In a dramatic show of physician support for deep health care reform in the U.S., more than 2,200 physician leaders have signed a “Physician’s Proposal” calling for sweeping change. The proposal, published May 5 2016 in the American Journal of Public Health, calls for the creation of a publicly financed,…

  • British Columbia Auditor finds costly failings in Province’s first hospital P3

    A new report by British Columbia’s Auditor General has debunked nearly every benefit claimed so far for public private partnerships (P3s). The Auditor General’s report on a Vancouver Coastal Health Authority (VCHA) project adds to earlier criticisms by his counterparts about failings in P3 hospital projects in Quebec and Ontario. …

  • uber eats delivery person of colour on their bike looking down on their phone

    New protections for BC platform workers entrench racism

    In November 2023, the BC Ministry of Labour announced new employment standards that claim to “bring fairness” to the estimated 40,000 ride-hail and food-delivery workers in BC. The move comes after a year of public engagement with platform workers, platform companies and labour experts, which brought to the fore the…

  • google building

    Alphabet workers go wall-to-wall

    ON JANUARY 4, 2021, workers at Alphabet, the parent company of tech giant Google, announced through an op-ed in the New York Times that they had formed the Alphabet Workers Union, as part of the Communications Workers of America. Here’s what happened next.

    ON JANUARY 4, 2021, workers at Alphabet, the parent company of tech giant Google, announced through an op-ed in the New York Times that they had formed the Alphabet Workers Union, as part of the Communications Workers of America. Here’s what happened next.

  • Public Interest Research Project (BC)

    Increasing private surgeries won’t solve BC’s waitlist problems: study

    (Vancouver) A new study lays out detailed recommendations for tackling the province’s growing surgical wait times – now among the longest in Canada – and warns against plans to increase contracting-out to private clinics.

  • Public Interest Research Project (BC)
    Seniors Care

    Without Foundation

    How Medicare is Undermined by Gaps and Privatization in Community and Continuing Care The Community and Continuing Care sector is fundamental to B.C.’s entire health care system. The sector’s significance can be traced to the 1991 Seaton Commission, which proposed a “closer to home” theme for health care restructuring. The…

  • High CEO pay shatters previous records, now 227 times more than average worker pay

    C-suite payrolls are so massive they account for at least 40% of some companies’ losses CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA — Canada’s 100 highest paid CEOs made 227 times more than the average worker made in 2018, surpassing all previous records, according to a new report from…

  • Growing Gap

    Heading into the pandemic, Canada’s highest paid CEOs made 202 times more than average worker pay in 2019

    OTTAWA––Heading into the COVID-19 pandemic, Canada’s 100 highest paid CEOs made 202 times more than the average worker made in 2019, according to a new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). While this gap narrowed slightly compared to 2018, when the average top paid CEO made a…

  • Labour Matters

    Waiting to Happen

    Why We Need Major Changes to the Health and Safety Regime in Federally Regulated Workplaces Download 1.25 MB58 pages This study finds that federal underfunding and understaffing of safety inspectors are putting employees in federally regulated workplaces sector in harm’s way. The study examines occupational health and safety developments between…

  • Priorities and funding for health care in BC

    This post is part of our BC Budget 2019 series, which highlights key findings from the CCPA’s research and outlines our recommendations for the 2019 provincial budget. Find more from the series at: policynote.ca/budget2019 In any provincial budget, health care is one of the biggest line items and, of course,…

  • A fiscal update for hard times: Is it enough?

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