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    Urgent action needed to control rent increases: Submission to the BC Rental Housing Task Force

    On July 3rd, we shared our recommendations regarding BC’s Residential Tenancy Act and controlling rental costs in British Columbia with the BC Rental Housing Task Force. This is our submission. As we noted in our March submission to the BC government’s poverty reduction consultation, we believe that bold action to…

  • The Challenge for Progressives

    Neoliberalism a colossal failure — it mustn’t be continued Once upon a time there was a global economic crisis. It was followed by a World War. Once upon a time we realized that, if we could make that kind of a mess together, we might be able to get together…

  • Forty BC economists call on the BC Government to reconsider spending cuts

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT Vancouver–Forty British Columbia economists and political economists from across the province today called on the BC government to rethink its planned spending cuts. In advance of the February 19 provincial budget, the economists have issued an open letter to Premier Campbell and Finance…

  • About that LNG Prosperity Fund

    Budget 2014 contains some new information about how the province intends to pay for all of the ponies BC children have been promised from LNG riches. Alas, there is not much there – a three page text box that mostly restates the hype on LNG – and from what has…

  • Fast Facts: The Education Property Tax Rebate

    Do we seniors really need it? This commentary was also published in the Winnipeg Free Press on Oct 17, 2013. The opposition’s unproductive filibuster of the provincial 2013 budget increase in the PST has left many aspects of the budget undebated. One is its failure to provide for improvement in…

  • Fast Facts: Rickety altar of balanced budgets

    Manitoba’s Provincial Budget 2015 It is unfortunate that the sitting government has to waste valuable political capital maneuvering around obstructionist balanced budget legislation (BBL), but the media and opposition continue to place recent budget analyses in its distorting frame. Contrary to established economic theory and practice, BBL always equates balanced…

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    Work Life: Making the case for a Labour Market Intermediary

    There is a growing opportunity in Manitoba to bridge the economic and social divide between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people. First of all, Manitoba employers are looking for skilled workers. Second of all, our large and young Aboriginal population continues to increase at a faster rate than the non-Aboriginal population. Aboriginal…

  • Where Icebergs are Born

    Nearly all the icebergs in the North Atlantic start in this place. Disko Bay, Greenland, is littered with ice as far as the eye can see. Huge icebergs sit somnolent in the morning sun, their surfaces lined with dark blue veins of frozen fresh water. A sudden clap of thunder…

  • Relax. Employer health taxes haven’t sunk businesses in other provinces

    The cries of concern from some are startling, but BC is only catching up to the rest of the country by eliminating the Medical Services Plan and replacing it with the new Employer Health Tax. In last month’s budget, the provincial government confirmed it will scrap Medical Services Plan (MSP)…

  • Seven ways to grow BC’s co-op sector

    On May 17, 2017, some 36 representatives from British Columbia’s co-operative (or ‘co-op’) sector met to share ideas about how to grow the sector, to better understand challenges that co-ops are facing, and to explore next steps—both in terms of what the sector can accomplish itself, as well as what…

  • BC's Environmental Assessment Office has ordered Progress Energy to drain almost all of the water from this unauthorized dam. Photo: Ben Parfitt

    Drain it: Petronas subsidiary ordered to take action at two controversial fracking dams

    The provincial government has ordered Progress Energy to drain virtually all of the water trapped behind two massive dams that the company built in violation of key provincial regulations. The company was told on October 31 to drain all but 10% of the water stored behind its Town and Lily…

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    BC Budget 2015 fails to make real investments in British Columbians: economist

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. VICTORIA–Budget 2015 demonstrates a short-sighted focus on recording a surplus instead of a long-term vision that would address serious social and environmental deficits, says Iglika Ivanova, Senior Economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Ivanova points to Finance Minister Michael de Jong’s comment that…