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Fast Facts: Rooming Houses to Rooming Homes
In Winnipeg’s inner city, and especially in West Broadway and Spence neighbourhoods, older homes converted to rooming houses are an important type of housing for many people living on low incomes. However, rooming houses are fast disappearing due to an uncoordinated policy and regulatory framework and market pressures. In addition,…
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Opposition propose BC Poverty Reduction and Economic Inclusion Act
Now is the time for bi-partisan collaboration in addressing the root causes of poverty On Tuesday, May 6th, in the BC Legislature, the Official Opposition (MLA Michelle Mungall) introduced a private member’s Bill proposing a BC Poverty Reduction and Economic Inclusion Act. The Act, were it to be enacted, would…
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2014 living wage calculation: Parents need two minimum wage jobs each to support a family in Metro Vancouver
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. VANCOUVER – A report released today finds that the wage needed to cover the costs of raising a family in Metro Vancouver is $20.10 per hour. This is the 2014 Metro Vancouver living wage rate, the hourly wage that two working parents with two young…
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Paying a ‘living wage’ is good for everybody
We all want Metro Vancouver to be a livable and sustainable place, for ourselves, our families and our children. However, for many families who work for low wages, municipalities across Metro Vancouver are inhospitable. We often hear about the affordability problem in our region but we rarely hear about the…
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Mark Carney’s tenure and the state of monetary policy
Mark Carney’s tenure as Governor of the Bank of Canada overlaps some challenging economy history. Appointed in early 2008 just as the US housing bubble was popping, Carney took the helm in time for a financial crisis that brought the global economy to its knees. We are still living that…
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Manitoba Budget a Leap Forward for Poverty Reduction
By substantially raising EIA shelter rates and increasing child care spaces, new apprenticeship programs and support to social enterprises, the province is taking action to assist low income people to overcome barriers to education and employment. Community advocates have argued for years that housing plays a fundamental role in addressing…
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Ten things to know about social assistance in Canada
Ron Kneebone (Professor of Economics at the University of Calgary) and Katherine White (Yukon’s Deputy Finance Minister) have referred to social assistance as “the final layer of the public social safety net — designed to catch those people in need of support but unable to find it from family, friends…
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BC’s child poverty rate: Don’t cherry-pick the numbers
It’s always welcome to see poverty identified as an important issue in our elections as it was in last Wednesday’s BC Leaders’ Debate. We want to see our political leaders challenging each other to do better on this file. However, in the debate—as well as in numerous media interviews—Premier Clark…
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Why are we revisiting P3s in Nova Scotia?
Perhaps the only thing that is clear from the newest attempt to enter into more P3 partnerships in this province is that public policy decisions are made despite the lack of evidence to support them. The evidence against this kind of privatization is overwhelmingly negative – the Canadian Centre for…
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Fast Facts: Responding to the Fentanyl crisis
Constructing better drug policy in Manitoba First published on CBC online Dec 3, 2016 Increasing tragic deaths from Fentanyl are raising calls to deal with this crisis. Evidence shows that controlling supply and criminalizing drug users does not address the root causes of addictions, which are complex and multi-faceted. Research…
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The budget that could have been
Even in the worst of times, budgets are rarely hemmed in by “economic necessity.” They are reflections of the values of the party in power. One government might look at economic data predicting low growth for the next five years (the current reality) and choose to cut program spending. Another…
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British Columbians will pay the LNG industry’s power bills
In his Tyee article BC’s LNG Fraud, Andrew Nikiforuk pointed out that the government’s new eDrive policy—under which BC Hydro will supply electricity to LNG plants at the standard industrial rate, instead of the much higher rate that government had determined was needed for BC Hydro to recover its costs—will result in…
