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Trish Garner
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A BC poverty reduction plan is long overdue
As the BC government prepares to table its budget on February 21 and political parties try to convince British Columbians to vote for them in…
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The hidden epidemic of working poverty in Metro Vancouver
We are often told that the solution to poverty is for the poor to “get a job” or for various sectors to create more jobs.…
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And then there was one: BC is now last province without a plan to tackle poverty
On October 22, the Government of Saskatchewan announced in their Throne Speech that it would commit to the development of a poverty reduction strategy, making…
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Where’s the fanfare for tackling poverty effectively?
Connecting the dots between three political moments over three months The following op-ed was originally published in The Georgia Straight. On June 16, I attended the…
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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…
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A poverty reduction plan for BC
Targeted government spending saves billions of dollars in the long term We’ve heard a lot about government spending recently. The Liberals released their “spend-o-meter” charting…
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A Poverty Reduction Plan for BC
Download 751.9 KB 65 pages This report lays out a comprehensive poverty reduction plan for BC. In 2009, after the report was published, the CCPA-BC,…
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