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Albert Lynn / Flickr” style=”border-radius:0px;–objectFit:cover;–imagePosX:50%;–imagePosY:50%” decoding=”async” srcset=”https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/policynote-april2017-climate-energy-bc-election-platforms-300×133.jpeg 300w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/policynote-april2017-climate-energy-bc-election-platforms-768×341.jpeg 768w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/policynote-april2017-climate-energy-bc-election-platforms.jpeg 900w” sizes=”(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px” />Climate change and energy issues in the 2017 BC election platforms
From the fracking fields and Site C dam in BC’s northeast to an LNG terminal and Kinder Morgan’s pipeline and tanker expansion in the southwest, energy issues should figure prominently in BC’s 2017 election campaign. Climate change, the result of all that pollution from dirty energy development here and elsewhere,…
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Tackling poverty in BC: Celebrating how far we’ve come and looking ahead
As I flipped my calendar over to a new year, I thought about the work the current provincial government has done: 2018 was a year where many initiatives were introduced—initiatives that provide steps along the path to an accountable, bold and comprehensive poverty reduction plan. This is something to celebrate.…
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Ce qu’il reste de l’université publique
Les universités québécoises sont en crise, et ce, depuis longtemps. Jamais, dans notre histoire récente, n’avons-nous pu leur donner une orientation claire. Voulons-nous des universités pour participer à l’éducation de notre peuple? Pour former à l’esprit critique? Pour diplômer massivement des étudiant·e·s? Pour répondre aux besoins du marché du travail?…
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Armine Yalnizyan talks care economy, economic theory, and walking with giants
The celebrated economist was recently awarded the Galbraith Prize in Economics.
The following text is a transcript of a speech given by Armine Yalnizyan, Atkinson Fellow On The Future Of Workers and former senior economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, to the Canadian Economics Association at Toronto Metropolitan University on May 31, 2024. Yalnizyan was accepting the Galbraith Prize in…
