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  • Inclusive growth and the future of work: A recap of our 2017 Rosenbluth Lecture with Armine Yalnizyan

    This year, the CCPA-BC’s annual Gideon Rosenbluth Memorial lecture featured one of Canada’s leading progressive economists, Armine Yalnizyan, who shared some insights on the changing world of work and the importance of achieving inclusive growth. Making growth inclusive has become a global policy priority backed, at least on paper, by…

  • BC’s Urban Housing (Un)affordability

    A new study published today by the Frontier Institute for Public Policy finds that Vancouver has the most unaffordable urban housing market not just in Canada, but in all of Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. This conclusion is based on a very simple, yet…

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    Housing crisis worse: Former UN special rapporteur Miloon Kothari revisits Vancouver

    As the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing from 2000 to 2008, Miloon Kothari observed the failure of market-based approaches to addressing housing crises. His 2007 report on Canada called for “a national strategy [for the] large scale building of social housing, and much better tenant…

  • Economic Impacts !?@#

    There isn’t a reputable economist that I know, nor a student in my benefit-cost class at SFU (that wants to pass) that does not understand the difference between economic impacts and real economic benefits. Nevertheless, industry lobbyists and all-too-many government officials never cease to point to economic impacts — the…

  • Long overdue: Taking a closer look at university library funding

    As we continue to dig into university and college finances in Ontario, what becomes apparent is not only the change in revenue sources these institutions are experiencing (which we discuss here). There are also shifts in how and where institutions choose to spend their money. The current strike by college…

  • Poverty and BC’s high cost of housing

    BC Stats put out a release on poverty lines as they relate to BC, with an important finding: BC’s dubious position as having the highest poverty rates in Canada may in fact be worse than the statistics show. This finding is buried in the piece and the title, “Low Income…

  • The Case for Economic Planning

    Companies plan for the future. Why shouldn’t governments? Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne recently unveiled Chrysler’s five-year operating plan. That a corporation should develop a strategic plan for the future seemed unsurprising and sensible to the reporters covering his press conference. How else could a large, complex organization function? But if…

  • The Case Against STV

    More from our BC Commentary special on STV: The Case Against STV By David Schreck Will STV “make your vote count”? Actually, BC-STV can make your vote worth less and make your MLA less accountable. Our existing first-past-the-post (FPTP) system is not perfect, but it is better than BC-STV. Inequality…

  • Les Priorités dans le ‘budget alternatif’

    Éliminer les frais de scolarité au collégial, offrir une couverture universelle pour les soins à la petite enfance, réduire la pauvreté, pendant que l’on favorise un tournant vert pour l’économie: Les possibilités pour la Nouvelle Ecosse CLIQUEZ ICI POUR CONSULTER LE RAPPORT. ‘Halifax, NS­ – Le Centre Canadien de Politiques…

  • Exercising Choice in Long-Term Residential Care

    Download 851.23 KB 128 pages “Our research indicates that strategies intended to support choices for long-term care residents must be based on the understanding that care is a relationship involving residents, their families and workers. It also means understanding that appropriate conditions of work are central to care as a relationship that allows residents…

  • 2010 and all that

    It is a basic principle in economics that estimates of employment and GDP impacts in themselves tell us nothing about the benefits and costs of government initiatives. Government spending creates jobs. More spending creates more jobs. But whether that is in the public interest raises very different questions. Will the…

  • Fast Facts: Comment un salaire vital pourrait réduire la pauvreté au Manitoba

    En ce temps de tourmente économique, des politiques de salaire suffisant pour vivre constituent une façon de stimuler notre économie locale. On applique une politique de salaire suffisant pour vivre, ou salaire vital, dans au moins 122 villes des É.-U. Une telle politique est à l’étude dans plus de 70…