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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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Forty BC economists call on the BC Government to reconsider spending cuts
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT Vancouver–Forty British Columbia economists and political economists from across the province today called on the BC government to…
BC’s “structural deficit” a manufactured crisis to justify cutbacks
“Tough decisions must be made,” declared the BC government in this week’s Throne Speech. “It won’t be easy and it won’t be without some hardship,”…
Reckless and Unecessary
CCPA’s Analysis, Facts and Figures for Understanding and Challenging BC’s January 17 Budget and Job Cuts Download 97.08 KB
No Evidence to Justify Lowering the Floor
A Submission to the BC Employment Standards Review Download 26.51 KB
BC Governments must not leave problem of hunger to food banks
The current decline in financial donations to the Greater Vancouver Food Bank is cause for grave concern. It has rightly been picked up by the…
Welfare cuts mean more misery for the poor
Premier Gordon Campbell established himself as a friend of the rich with the lavish cuts in provincial income taxes announced in June, but all he…
BC Commentary: A Review of Provincial Social and Economic Trends
Winter 2002, Volume 5, Number 1 Download 228.71 KB8 pages Inside this issue: Spending cuts are the wrong choice for BC Reckless and Unnecessary: BC’s…
In service of business
BC’s new plan for the environment When analyzing the full array of plans to cut, privatize, and deregulate environmental protection, there is one clear theme…
Offshore oil not the path to wealth or jobs
Environmental risks not the only reason to keep the moratorium CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) A report released today by the Canadian…
The Case for Pay Equity
Submission to the BC Task Force on Pay Equity Download 127.25 KB
The boom that was not
Economic lessons for BC from the Hibernia offshore oil project Communities on the mid and North Coast and northern Vancouver Island have been hit hard…
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