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Flush with cash
In March 2022 we published a report predicting that most provinces would be in fiscal surplus territory by the end of the 2021–22 fiscal year…
Flush with cash
This is a remarkable story of economic recovery from the depths of the COVID-19 lockdown impacts. The next chapter will be written by the provinces as they decide what to do with their unexpected budget surpluses.
BC Solutions: News and commentary from the CCPA’s BC Office (Oct. 2022)
Download 2.14 MB12 pages In this issue: The Rise of public contracts to corporate clinics in BC Marjorie Griffin Cohen: 2022 Rosenbluth Lecture How to…
BC Solutions: News and commentary from the CCPA’s BC Office
Download 1.39 MB12 pages In this issue: The Numbers Game: What happened to those 114,000 new affordable homes in BC BC needs a public intercity transportation service…
BC Solutions: News and commentary from the CCPA’s BC Office
Download 3.17 MB16 pages Celebrating 25 years of the CCPA-BC BC is subsidizing logging for pulp and pellet mills CCPA in the news in 2021…
BC Solutions: News and commentary from the CCPA’s BC Office
Download 1.79 MB12 pages In this issue: Canada’s road to zero carbon emissions is full of dangerous distractions Precedent-setting win for Blueberry First Nations From…
BC Budget 2021 — Missed opportunities and inadequate investments
VANCOUVER — The BC government made some needed investments in its 2021 budget for COVID-19 recovery, but there is scarce new funding for major priorities like…
BC Solutions: News and commentary from the CCPA’s BC Office
June 2020 Download 1.53 MB12 pages In this issue: Excess profits tax needed to prevent profiteering amid COVID-19 Income assistance relief measures Blockades aren’t the…
What should be next for BC workers and families after the initial federal COVID-19 relief package?
The federal government’s newly announced COVID-19 economic relief measures are a good start to aiding people and businesses whose livelihoods have been disrupted by the…
Inconvenience and indifference
Photo by Sally T. Buck (Flickr Creative Commons) Indifference, said Antonio Gramsci, is “the mainspring of history.” By that he meant it is not the…
CCPA Submission to BC Budget Consultations 2020
Submission to the Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services of the Legislative Assembly of BC Download 550.29 KB 25 pages This submission highlights…
CCPA report confirms BC’s new investments in child care affordability are urgently needed
Savings from BC’s child care affordability measures for different family types Single-parent family Two-parent family Income $30,000Child age 2Centre-based care Income $30,000Child age…
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