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CCPA-BC submission to the Select Standing Committee on Health
How can we create a cost-effective system of primary and community care built around interdisciplinary teams? Download 768.64 KB 27 pages The BC Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy…
Climate Justice in BC
Lessons for Transformation Download 3.02 MB61 pages Are you looking for new ways to teach about climate change and social justice? Frustrated with models that stop at changing light bulbs…
Dispelling Minimum Wage Mythology
The Minimum Wage and the Impact on Jobs in Canada, 1983–2012 Download 697.6 KB 26 pages This report conducts a wide empirical study of Canadian employment data in search of…
CCPA Submission to BC Budget Consultations 2015
Download 1.23 MB 13 pages 2015 marks the sixth year of BC’s recovery from the recession. But it’s been a slow and largely jobless recovery. The provincial government’s economic strategy…
Calculating a Living Wage for the Waterloo Region
Download 566.15 KB 22 pages A Waterloo region family of four with two working parents needs to earn $16 an hour to make ends meet. This report explains how the…
BC Commentary: A Review of Provincial Social and Economic Trends
Fall 2014, Volume 17, Number 3 Download 1.99 MB8 pages Inside this issue: Precarious temp agency work requires public policy attention by Andrew Longhurst Don’t believe the (LNG) hype by…
Avoiding Collapse
An agenda for sustainable degrowth and relocalizing the economy Download 309.92 KB 20 pages In this thoughtful paper, UBC Professor Emeritus William Rees, the originator of “ecological footprint analysis”, explores…
CETA and Canada’s Auto Industry
Making a bad situation worse Download 551.22 KB 40 pages Despite its challenges over the last decade the auto industry is still a crucial contributor to the national GDP, exports,…
CCPA Submission to Consultation on BC Forest Tenures
Download 645.58 KB 3 pages CCPA-BC Director Seth Klein submitted the attached to Mr. Jim Snetsinger, who is leading a consultation on area-based forest tenures on behalf of the BC…
The Case for a Stronger Fair Wage Policy in Ontario
Download 718.58 KB 47 pages This report analyzes Ontario’s fair wage policy, which has not been modernized since it was introduced in 1995. It draws from a broad range of…
Canada’s Auto Industry and the New Free Trade Agreements
Sorting Through the Impacts Download 498.81 KB 34 pages Despite its challenges over the last decade the auto industry is still a crucial contributor to the national GDP, exports, productivity,…
The Creation of a Shared Prosperity in Canada
Unions, Corporations and Countervailing Power Download 919.8 KB36 pages This report documents how the growth of unions from the First World War to the mid 1970’s helped create a shared…
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