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Established in 1997, the CCPA’s BC Office investigates key challenges facing our province through independent research, analysis and expertise. We propose real, workable solutions, and share our findings as widely as possible to advance social, economic and environmental justice – and to challenge the message that there is no alternative.
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Women workers bear pandemic burden as hotel industry prospers
VANCOUVER – While BC’s accommodations and food services sector received over a billion dollars in government COVID-19 subsidies, women workers—predominantly racialized and immigrants—either lost their employment…
A paradox in COVID-19 pandemic recovery
“So, in March, during 2020, March 2020, on the 15th of March our schedule changed. And they told us that we don’t have any schedule…
The Monitor – Winter 2024
We’re starting the New Year in an upstream frame of mind, bringing you the brightest thinking from a June 2023 Parkland Institute conference, An Economy…
CCPA’s favourite graphs of 2023
From every office – CCPA researchers picked their favourite graphs of the past year.
Beleaguered federal government unlikely to turn the page with restrained fiscal update
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland talks up housing and affordability while austerity looms
BC Issues: Cuts to Legal Aid
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BC Issues: Cuts to Continuing Care
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Working for a Living Wage
The 2023 living wage for Metro Vancouver is $25.68 per hour. This is the hourly rate that each of two parents working full-time must earn…
Living wage in Metro Vancouver rises to $25.68 amid soaring costs
Community Living Wage 2023 Living Wage $ increase from last year Percentage increase from last year Living Wage 2022 Clayoquot Sound $26.51 N/A N/A DID…
Understanding Precarity in BC
The Understanding Precarity in BC (UP-BC) partnership is a research and public engagement initiative investigating precarious work and multi-dimensional precarity in British Columbia.
BC Solutions Magazine
News and commentary from the CCPA’s BC Office (Oct 2023) Download 3.27 MB12 pages BC’s carbon crossroads: The Energy Action Framework takes the wrong path…
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