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  • Seniors Care

    Better seniors care a solution to overcrowded hospitals and surgery wait times

    A recent landmark investigation by BC’s Ombudsperson highlighted the serious problems seniors experience in accessing affordable high-quality home and community-based services (such as residential care, home nursing and home support). At the same time, BC continues to grapple with overcrowded hospitals and long waitlists for emergency care and surgeries. Taken…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    What will Trump target in a NAFTA renegotiation?

    On his first full day in office, Donald Trump made good on his pledge to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), effectively killing the deal. The administration then turned its sights on overhauling NAFTA, which may be more curse than blessing for Canada.Under NAFTA Article 2205, any party can withdraw…

  • 84 doctors, health experts & economists across Canada call on BC government to show national leadership with 10 days paid sick leave

    VANCOUVER—Eighty four signatories to an open letter published today say they want the BC government to show national leadership because its actions will set the bar for other provinces and territories at a time when the right to paid sick leave is more important than ever. The signatories include ER…

  • What’s in a Scan?

    How well are consumers informed about the benefits and harms related to screening technology (CT and PET scans) in Canada? Download 1.25 MB48 pages Attachments Les avantages et les risques de la scintigraphie? – Sommaire To Screen or Not to Screen, that is the Question (2-page consumer’s guide)

  • Public being misled by marketing of medical scans, new research reveals

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Authors of a new study warn that private clinics selling high-tech services to screen healthy people for disease could be harming Canadians and placing an undue burden on the public health system. The study, entitled What’s in a Scan? was published today by the Canadian…

  • 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…

  • BC NDP-Green agreement commits to Indigenous consent

    In their power-sharing agreement, the BC New Democrat and Green parties commit to support the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Supreme Court of Canada’s 2014 Tsilhqot’in decision, calling the documents “foundational” to their shared policy agenda. Central to both is Indigenous peoples’ right to free,…

  • Cheap Power for Jobs (Except it Ain’t Cheap)

    It has a nice political ring to it — “power for jobs”. That is what Glen Clark wanted to do with the Columbia River Treaty power that was returned to the province in the late 1990’s. And that is what Vaughn Palmer argues B.C. should do today with the hydro…

  • Fast Facts: Decolonizing the Inner City – a look at Youth for Christ

    Youth for Christ is an evangelical Christian organization whose “Centre for Youth Excellence” received public funding based on a business plan that promised to meet the needs of local Aboriginal youth. The public funding for, and presence of this building on a key corner, continues to anger many in the…

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    Des soins qui comptent, combien ça coûte?

    Le système de soins de longue durée nécessite 1,8 milliard de dollars pour atteindre des niveaux d’effectifs sécuritaires en personnel : rapport TORONTO— Dans la tourmente, le système de soins de longue durée de l’Ontario nécessite un investissement supplémentaire de 1,8 milliard de dollars par an pour atteindre les niveaux…

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    Why has UBC divested from fossil fuels but UVic has not? The high cost of industry influence

    The death and disruption wrought by COVID-19 is calamitous. The bad news is that climate change will be worse. It is easy to forget that 2020 began with Australia burning in a brutal wildfire season. Like the current pandemic, Australia’s disaster was predicted years in advance by ecological science. As…

  • Resource Economics Project (BC)

    Offshore oil not the path to wealth or jobs

    Environmental risks not the only reason to keep the moratorium CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) A report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives finds that offshore oil and gas development off BC’s coast will not bring the hoped for levels of wealth or job…