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  • Ian Hudson

    Provincial Budget, Taxation

  • Tall Tales at Tax Time: Meet Thomas and Colleen

    There is a nice little story tucked in to the pages of Canada’s Economic Action Plan 2013. It’s a sweet tale of Thomas and Colleen and their two children. (I like to imagine those little stick-figure stickers on the back of their mini-van waving hello to their friends in happy…

  • Financing public housing: how a massive expansion of rental homes can literally pay for itself

    In the face of a mounting housing crisis, what if BC could massively increase public investment in below-market rental housing—and if that upfront investment could literally pay for itself, with no increase to taxpayer-supported debt? While this might sound too good to be true, it simply follows from the basic…

  • Fast Facts: Make Homelessness History

    Homelessness has recently been much in the news, because of the tragic deaths of three homeless people in Winnipeg and also because of the Canadian Housing and Renewal Association’s National Congress on Housing and Homelessness, held last week in Winnipeg. Canada is one of the very few advanced industrialized countries…

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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…

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    Fast Facts: Community Economic Development in Manitoba and the Inclusive Economy

    Manitoba is a province of economic growth and economic disparity. It is a province with low unemployment rates, diverse development, and incredible resource wealth.  On the flip side, Manitoba has continuously had some of the highest child poverty rates in Canada, and the highest homicide rates, and Winnipeg has been…

  • Ontario’s plan to deregulate child care is a bad movie that parents have seen – and rejected – before

    Parents, children and the child care sector are facing an extraordinary crisis brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. So you might reasonably hope that the Ontario government would use a scheduled five-year review of the Child Care and Early Years Act to directly address these challenges: beef up health, safety…

  • Time to scale up non-market housing in BC

    Time to scale up: next steps for non-market housing in BC

    Despite some positive policy moves, BC is still not meeting the demands of the housing crisis. We need more non-market housing in BC now.

  • Legal Aid Denied: A 20th Anniversary retrospective

    Legal Aid Denied: Women and the Cuts to Legal Services in BC was written in 2004 shortly after the election of a neo-conservative Liberal government in BC. The report outlined the nature of the changes this government quickly introduced to the provision of Legal Aid in BC including slashing funding…

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    9 things to look for in Monday’s BC Budget

    BC’s new government is set to table its first provincial budget on Monday, September 11. While it is expected to be less comprehensive than a full budget (as almost half the year has already passed), the investments made or missing from it will reveal a lot about this government’s priorities.…

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    As wood pellet exports to Japan surge, BC’s primary forests feel the strain

    In the land of the rising sun, the light of a setting sun glints so brightly on the shiny metal piping of Renova’s Ishinomaki Hibarino power plant that you have to shield your eyes. Located near the city of Sendai, north of Tokyo, the new thermal electricity plant is one…

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    Massive public investment, not austerity, is the answer

    A depression is still around the corner if the Canadian government does not continue to radically intervene in the economy. We have all encountered the dark outlines of the crisis facing us by now. Everywhere there are warnings of mass unemployment unseen in decades, already vulnerable workers—young, racialized, women—hit hardest,…