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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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Infographic: Is BC education funding really at “record levels”?
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Why the provincial government should stop bragging about K-12 education funding
For families getting ready to send their children back to underfunded and overcrowded classrooms, it’s no secret that BC’s public education system is stretched to…
Big dams and a big fracking problem in BC’s energy-rich Peace River Region
Download 293.5 KB12 pages This short paper describes senior BC Hydro officials’ fears that earthquakes triggered by natural gas industry fracking operations could damage Peace…
Infographics: A big fracking problem in BC’s Peace River Region
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Fracking has no place near critical dams or reservoirs
Last year, a dubious record was set when a magnitude 4.6 earthquake was triggered near Fort St. John during a natural gas industry fracking operation.…
Province must ban fracking near all of BC Hydro’s Peace River dams and reservoirs, groups say
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. VANCOUVER – Natural gas company fracking operations should be banned near all hydro dams out of concerns that earthquakes triggered…
Reliance on tipping creates inequity and leaves workers vulnerable
Recently tipping in the restaurant industry has been the subject of two national opinion polls, both of which suggest the public is divided on the…
Four ways the Fraser Institute is wrong about the need for new export pipelines to tidewater
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Replacing MSP with fair taxes would mean savings for most BC families: economist
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Vancouver–The majority of British Columbians would come out ahead under a plan to scrap MSP and replace the $2.5 billion…
BC should eliminate the MSP. Here are two better options.
Download 1.07 MB12 pages This short paper offers two options for replacing the MSP in BC with a fairer system. It originally appeared as a post…
Working poverty on the rise in most Metro Vancouver municipalities
JUNE 29, 2016 (Vancouver) Contrary to stereotypes about poverty being concentrated mainly in Vancouver and Surrey, a new study finds the growing ranks of the…
The hidden epidemic of working poverty in Metro Vancouver
We are often told that the solution to poverty is for the poor to “get a job” or for various sectors to create more jobs.…
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