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woodleywonderworks / Flickr” style=”border-radius:0px;–objectFit:cover;–imagePosX:50%;–imagePosY:50%” decoding=”async” srcset=”https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/policynote_nov2017_rising-housing-300×133.jpg 300w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/policynote_nov2017_rising-housing-768×342.jpg 768w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/policynote_nov2017_rising-housing.jpg 899w” sizes=”(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px” />Rising housing costs in Vancouver: New evidence from the Census
Vancouver’s housing affordability crisis is full of jaw-dropping anecdotes about home prices and rents. But with almost a million households in Metro Vancouver, there are both winners and losers from the boom. A recent Statistics Canada release on housing affordability from the 2016 Census allows us to put some numbers…
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The Weapons Makers On Display
Canada’s war industries flog their wares at big arms bazaar The glittering opulence and sheer pageantry of the Middle East’s largest arms bazaar held recently in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates, was like an alchemist’s magic, transforming the dross display of the death-bestowing technologies into a grand…
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How to create good jobs in BC
Five years have passed after the end of the Great Recession but both BC and Canada as a whole are very far away from a meaningful recovery in the labour market. Headline unemployment rates are not terrible (6.1% in BC and 6.8% in Canada) but fewer people are looking for…
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Marco Verch / Flickr” style=”border-radius:0px;–objectFit:cover;–imagePosX:50%;–imagePosY:50%” decoding=”async” srcset=”https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Opioid_Open_Ltr-300×133.jpg 300w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Opioid_Open_Ltr-768×341.jpg 768w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Opioid_Open_Ltr.jpg 900w” sizes=”(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px” />BC needs an opioid action plan: An open letter to the government of BC
CCPA-BC Director Seth Klein is a signatory to this open letter to the BC government calling for a provincial opioid action plan. The letter was coordinated by the Public Health Association of BC, a voluntary, non-profit, non-government, member-driven organization that provides leadership to promote health. Since April, 2016 when the…
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Fast Facts: Canadians Deserve a Universal Early Childhood Education and Child Care System
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press, November 2014 This week hundreds of educators, academics and activists gather in Winnipeg for the fourth national childcare conference. They are united by a vision of a universal early childhood education and child care system in Canada. Here in Manitoba, we have made…
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From the ground up: Building a successful Early Learning and Child Care System in Nova Scotia
The Nova Scotia government has announced that it will introduce a new free pre-primary program for children turning four by the end of December 2017. While there are many reasons to be concerned about the implementation of this program, the good news is that the government is investing in the…
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Go Big or Go Home: Lessons from the federal government’s botched tax reform attempt
Now that the dust has begun to settle on the federal government’s train wreck of a tax reform initiative that would have limited the ability of wealthy Canadians to use special provisions for small business to reduce their taxes, it is worth sifting through the ashes for clues as to…
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Nova Scotia has the worst provincial child poverty reduction record over 30 years—shows the 2021 Report Card
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT Halifax, NS—The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia (CCPA-NS) released the 2021 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia: Worst Provincial Performance over 30 Years. This report provides the 2021 Child and Family Poverty rates for Nova Scotia, based on…
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Gender gap leaves Canadian women “leaning in” for the next 228 years: study
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—Without a change in public policy, Canada’s gender gap won’t go away anytime soon, says a new study from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). The study, by CCPA Research Associate Kate McInturff, looks at Canada’s progress in closing the gap between…
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November 2008: The Worst Time For the Worst Government
Canadians need a rebuilt welfare state, not a broken one Ralph Nader, the famous American consumer advocate and perennial presidential candidate, writing recently in The Nation, recalled sitting at the family dining table when he was growing up and listening to his father talk about capitalism and socialism. “Capitalism will…
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February 2004: Poisoning the Environment — Free
Polluters are supposed to pay clean-up costs–but they don’t What is remarkable about the latest environmental law decision from the Supreme Court of Canada is not how ecologically enlightened the Court is (since a series of previous cases had already demonstrated the Justices’ “green” wisdom), but rather the breadth of…
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Polling on taxes – response to a critic
On November 29, the CCPA released an opinion research study led by myself and Randy Galawan called Beyond the 1%: What British Columbians think about taxes, inequality and public services. The study involved an extensive online survey (poll) of a broad sample of British Columbians, conducted by Environics Research, and…
Marco Verch