Menu

Search results for 'site/economics of childcare'

Search results for: “site/economics of childcare”

  • Economic Security Project (BC)

    Corporate social responsibility means paying a living wage

    Making paid work meet basic family needs Families who work for low wages often face impossible choices: buy clothes or heat the house, feed the children or pay the rent. The result can be spiraling debt, constant anxiety and long-term health problems. In many cases it means parents are working…

  • Fast Facts: Caring for Home Care in Manitoba

    In January, the government released the Toews report The Future of Home Care Services in Manitoba. The report was commissioned by the NDP government in 2015 as a follow up to an earlier report on Home Care (HC) from the province’s Auditor General. The two most compelling challenges identified in…

  • Economic Security Project (BC)

    Getting by is getting harder for those in “casual” jobs

    Many experts are puzzling over a paradox in BC’s economy — why have years of solid growth and low unemployment failed to translate into improved earnings for those in lower end jobs? One piece of the puzzle can be found in the growth in casual work. “Casual” means you have…

  • The Great Log Export Drain: BC government pursues elusive LNG dreams as more than 3,600 forest industry jobs lost to raw log exports

    First of Two Parts Its members include the most powerful players in the province’s forest industry, companies that do the vast majority of all logging on British Columbia’s coast. Its website boasts of “innovative, high-tech” companies whose workers turn out “a growing array of forest and wood products.” But in…

  • Mettre fin à la violence faite aux femmes

    Comprendre les liens qui existent entre la violence directe et la violence structurale Le massacre de l’École Polytechnique à Montréal, il y a 18 ans, n’est malheureusement pas un cas isolé. Tous les 6 décembre, nous honorons la mémoire des quatorze femmes assassinées à l’occasion de la Journée nationale de commémoration et…

  • "<aUnsplash / Pixabay” style=”border-radius:0px;–objectFit:cover;–imagePosX:50%;–imagePosY:50%” decoding=”async” srcset=”https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/policynote-feb2017-tax-fairness-in-bc-hardly-300×141.jpg 300w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/policynote-feb2017-tax-fairness-in-bc-hardly-1024×480.jpg 1024w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/policynote-feb2017-tax-fairness-in-bc-hardly-768×360.jpg 768w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/policynote-feb2017-tax-fairness-in-bc-hardly.jpg 1280w” sizes=”(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px” />

    Tax fairness in BC? Hardly

    Tax cuts disproportionately benefitted the richest 1% of British Columbians, write @IglikaIvanova & @1alexhemingway: https://t.co/iZbcztdPem pic.twitter.com/BavNnT2WWp — The CCPA–BC (@CCPA_BC) February 16, 2017 As we wait to hear more about the tax cuts coming in BC Budget 2017, it is important to remember what has happened to our provincial tax…

  • Takeover of Canadian companies all too easy

    Globalization, it might be thought, has run its course. The worst free marketeer of them all, George W. Bush, is isolated in the White House, watching the American economy recede, financial chaos spread, and the world slowly burn. His odds-on successor, Barack Obama, is pro-business but chary of a globalization…

  • Public Interest Research Project (BC)

    Restructuring government in BC

    Are we asking the right questions? The new BC government is clearly dedicated to so-called “smaller government”. On one major front, the premier has appointed a Minister of Deregulation to spearhead a 1/3 reduction in government regulations. On another, a far-reaching “core-review” has been initiated to “re-think” the nature of…

  • BCE deal could finesse Canada’s foreign control rules for telecom companies

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA—CRTC Chair Konrad von Finckenstein is right to be skeptical about the proposed takeover of BCE Inc. by the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and three U.S. private equity firms, say the contributors to a new book on telecom policy published by the Canadian Centre for…

  • March 2008: The New Green Superpower

    European Union leading the way in eco-friendly economics The ancient Chinese believed that a cosmic force, the Will of Heaven, controlled the rise and fall of their imperial dynasties. As soon as an emperor failed to act in accord with the laws of nature, also called the Tao, the Mandate…

  • June 2007: The Wrong “Solution” To Pollution

    Nuclear power won’t clean up the Alberta tar sands The very biggest environmental issue in Canada is the Alberta oil sands project. Though only partially developed as yet, it covers 138,000 square kilometers of northern Alberta–an area as large as the state of Florida. At yet, only the surface oil…

  • Fast Facts: Le mythe des politiques économiques néolibérales

    « Le gouvernement ne peut pas choisir le gagnant, mais les perdants peuvent choisir le gouvernement. » Ancien sous-ministre canadien de l’Industrie, monsieur V. Peter Harder cité dans The New York Times, le 28 août 2001. Cette citation reflète une critique souvent répétée du rôle de l’État dans notre société. C’est une notion…