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Working toward a socially and economically just British Columbia
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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A Decade of Migrant Care Worker Programs
For more than a century, Canada has seen thousands of migrant care workers enter the country to provide much needed care work.
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Canada’s Broken Promises to Migrant Care Workers—More Pilot Programs Not a Solution—
VANCOUVER — The federal government must ensure that just-announced pilot programs for migrant care workers are not the latest in a series of failed such programs,…
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It’s a housing crisis. Why are cities like Vancouver still banning apartments in most areas?
Vancouver is the epicentre of BC’s housing crisis and shortage. So why does the city still effectively ban new apartment buildings on most of its residential land, reserving it exclusively for low-density housing?
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Building equity: lessons for affordable housing in BC
No topic has dominated the headlines in recent years more than housing, or the growing lack of affordable options in Metro Vancouver and other cities…
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Expensive housing eroding BC’s economy — new report offers solutions agenda
VANCOUVER – Scarce and expensive housing is eroding the province’s liveability and economy and the skyrocketing price of homes has become a source of enormous wealth…
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Building Equity
No topic has dominated the headlines in recent years more than housing or the growing lack of affordable options in Metro Vancouver and other cities…
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Meet the CCPA–BC’s new Director! Kevin Millsip
Hello, My name is Kevin, and I’m the new/old guy at the BC Office. New, in that I joined this September as Director, and old…
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2024 Rosenbluth lecture | Dr. Katharina Pistor
Dr. Pistor will discuss themes from her latest book,The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality, which explores how the public institutions…
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Time to get on board with free public transit
The BC Green Party made the first big splash of the 2024 provincial election campaign with a major commitment to expand public transit, including a…
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Exploitable and deportable by design: Why migrant workers’ housing is harmful to their health
Canada’s treatment of migrant workers is drawing international scrutiny after UN investigator Tomoya Obokata warned that its Temporary Foreign Worker Program “serves as a breeding…
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Addressing the racism of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program
There is renewed attention on Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) in the wake of the recent damning report from the UN Special Rapporteur on…
Cedar LNG: Chronicles of a petro-state in the age of climate change
A final investment decision in June 2024 by Cedar LNG highlights the challenges and contradictions of BC’s climate and energy policies. For the BC government,…