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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 needs to significantly boost supply of public assisted living
Too many seniors in our province struggle to find publicly subsidized assisted living where they can be supported as they age. Amidst an affordable housing…
Access to subsidized assisted living dropping as for-profit companies focus on more lucrative private-pay market: study
Vancouver — BC added a mere 105 units of publicly subsidized assisted living over nearly a decade (2010-17), despite a growing population of seniors. As…
Assisted Living in British Columbia
Trends in access, affordability and ownership Download 1.27 MB 48 pages Access to publicly subsidized assisted living in British Columbia has fallen since 2008 for…
Fracking ban warranted to protect some of British Columbia’s biggest dams, FOI documents reveal
(Vancouver) Fracking should be immediately banned close to BC Hydro’s two existing Peace River dams as well as the Site C dam construction project until…
BC Solutions: News and commentary from the CCPA’s BC Office
January 2020 Download 2 MB12 pages In this issue: Celebrating excellence in research The Canada Pension Plan is fuelling the climate crisis Affordable non-market rental…
Planning for a Build-Out of Affordable Rental Housing in Metro Vancouver
How many units and how much would it cost? Download 2.11 MB 12 pages New investments from the British Columbia and federal governments indicate a…
10,000 affordable non-market rental housing units needed annually to stem Metro Vancouver’s housing crisis
CLICK HERE TO READ FULL REPORT. VANCOUVER–To fully address Metro Vancouver’s housing crisis, an ambitious program of building 10,000 new units of non-market rental housing…
Canada Pension Plan’s ongoing investments in fossil fuels: a moral and ecological failure and financial risk
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Vancouver – How pension funds choose to invest has significant bearing on how we collectively address the climate emergency and…
Canada Pension Plan Fuels Climate Change Crisis
“Financial experts say millennials will have to save an entire planet to retire,” says the satirical Beaverton.
Fossil Futures
The Canada Pension Plan’s Failure to Respect the 1.5-Degree Celsius Limit Download 4.71 MB32 pages The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) manages one of…
Canada’s fossil fuel lobby influences policy and decisions for major federal government projects
There’s no doubt that climate change and fossil fuel extraction were vote determining for significant sections of the population in the federal election. These issues…
Big Oil’s Political Reach
Mapping fossil fuel lobbying from Harper to Trudeau Download 1.41 MB 64 pages In Canada between 2011 and 2018 the fossil fuel industry was one…
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