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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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BC’s Budget 2004 fails Olympic test
Tuesday’s budget speech and the recent Speech from the Throne were full of references to the Spirit of 2010. But rather than setting out a…
Balanced budget for BC — but on a razor’s edge
No room for error in 2004/05 provincial budget READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. VANCOUVER–Gary Collins tabled his first balanced budget as Finance Minister today, but…
The world will be watching in 2010, but what will they see?
2004 Solutions Budget uses Olympics deadline as focus for plan to revitalize BC’s economy, public services CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) The…
BC Solutions Budget 2004
Getting Ready for 2010 Download 414.72 KB28 pages Attachments Summary: BC Solutions Budget 2004
Study cuts through confusion about education funding [Jan 2004]
Per-pupil funding continues downward trend CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) Real per-student funding for public education in BC has been dropping over…
Memo to the new Education Minister: Restore Funding [Jan 2004]
BC’s new Education Minister will have a lot on his plate in the short lead-up to the 2004 provincial budget. Many are hoping that Mr.…
CCPA and SFU win prestigious research grant
Project involving university and community researchers to study economic security in BC (Vancouver) The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (BC) and Simon Fraser University are…
BC’s social contract is being dismantled in revolutionary ways
With some recent privatization reversals, a number of business leaders and free market fundamentalists are concerned that the BC Liberals are backing away from the…
BC’s incredible shrinking Environment Minister
Joyce Murray — BC’s Minister of the “Environment” (formally Water, Land and Air Protection) — does not seem to wield a whole lot of power…
BC Government should not cave in to private clinics
It hasn’t been often that we at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives have found occasion to applaud the BC government for one of its…
The ticking time bomb of BC’s welfare time limits
Of all the changes the BC government has made to social assistance, the most radical is the introduction of welfare time limits. The rule kicked-in…
Leaked numbers sound alarm on welfare time limits
The clock is ticking on BC’s new welfare time limits, and as the reality of the looming social crisis sinks in, people are getting nervous.…
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