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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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Trees and Jobs Wasted in Rush to Beat Beetle, Study Warns
Jointly issued by: BC Federation of Labour; BC Government and Service Employees’ Union; Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives BC Office; Communications Energy & Paperworkers Union…
Over-cutting and Waste in BC’s Interior
A Call to Rethink BC’s Pine Beetle Logging Strategy Download 747.47 KB36 pages
Fair Fares
Enhancing BC’s Transit Use and Affordability Download 584.74 KB 8 pages This Behind the Numbers report looks at transit reliance in Vancouver and the impact…
Who Gets What from the 2007 BC Tax Cut?
Download 178.54 KB4 pages A Behind the Numbers report which breaks down just who will benefit from the tax cut in the 2007 provincial budget.…
Public Solutions Could be Undermined by Private Interests
Long waits for elective surgery and privatization are the price Canadians must pay for their well-intentioned but fatally flawed public health care system, right? Wrong.…
Government Not Enforcing Health Laws
The provincial government recently stated that user charges for emergency health care services provided at the new False Creek Urgent Care Centre are legal. Minister…
Why Wait?
Public Solutions to Cure Surgical Waitlists Download 746.55 KB40 pages Attachments SUMMARY: Why Wait? Public Solutions to Cure Surgical Waitlists
Innovative surgical projects show how waitlists can be solved: Submission to BC ‘conversation on health’
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) Surgical waitlists can be dramatically cut if the BC government takes leadership by scaling up innovative projects…
BC Commentary: A Review of Provincial Social and Economic Trends
Spring / Summer 2007, Volume 10, Number 2 Download 935.02 KB8 pages Inside this issue: Time to Raise BC’s Minimum Wage BC Hydro Deals Mean…
Sticker Shock: BC Hydro customers in for big electricity bill surprises
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (VANCOUVER) BC Hydro customers can expect their electricity bills to escalate dramatically in coming years, thanks to the…
Sticker Shock
The Impending Cost of BC Hydro’s Shift to Private Power Developers
It’s time to raise BC’s minimum wage above the poverty line
What does it mean to be a minimum wage earner in British Columbia? It means making $8 per hour—or as little as $6 if you’re…
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