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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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Closing the gap must be BC’s top priority, CCPA says
(Vancouver) Addressing inequality in BC should be the top priority for the 2001 Budget, the CCPA will tell the BC Legislature’s Select Standing Committee on…
If I Had a Billion Dollars
Opportunities for British Columbia in the 2001 Budget
Society’s most vulnerable denied needed care
Groundbreaking new study exposes the impact of federal and BC cuts to community-based health care CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) The BC…
Without Foundation
How Medicare is Undermined by Gaps and Privatization in Community and Continuing Care The Community and Continuing Care sector is fundamental to B.C.’s entire health…
The crumbling foundation of Medicare in BC
British Columbians are fed a stream of bad news about our public health care system. But there is one very common health story we rarely…
What happened to the national home care program?
In 1997, after wide consultation across the country, the federal government’s National Forum on Health concluded that home care should be considered an integral part…
Environmental tax shifting cannot replace regulation
The BC government released a discussion paper a few months ago on a relatively new policy tool: environmental tax shifting. The paper was intended to…
Environmental tax shifting cannot replace regulation
New CCPA report offers a framework for evaluating environmental taxes and cautions against using tax shifting as a panacea CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL…
Shifting Ground
A CCPA-BC Policy Brief on the Potential and Limitations of Environmental Tax Shifting Download 228.33 KB20 pages
Internal trade negotiations a solution in search of a problem, CCPA says
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Ottawa) Federal-provincial negotiations to expand the Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT) should be stopped, according to a briefing…
Policy Brief Re: Women’s Economic Equality Strategy
Introduction The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) is an independent, non-profit research institute dedicated to producing and promoting economic and social policy research of…
CCPA calls for government action to improve the lives of women in British Columbia
(Vancouver) On the eve of the World March of Women and a conference on women’s economic security co-hosted by Premier Ujjal Dosanjh and Women’s Equality…
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