Posts by Anastasia French

About Anastasia French

Anastasia (she/her) has been managing the Living Wage Campaign since June 2020. She has a decade of experience managing campaigns and projects that have changed laws and policies in the UK and Canada and raised millions for good causes. In her spare time, she enjoys trying to visit every park, library and brewery in Vancouver.

Soaring cost of living—especially for housing—causes living wages to increase across BC

Nov 20, 2024

By Iglika Ivanova and Anastasia French

The 2024 living wage for Metro Vancouver has risen to $27.05 per hour, a 5.3% increase from last year. This significant increase highlights the region’s deepening affordability crisis fuelled by sky-high housing costs. Living wages are also going up across the province as our new report shows. While inflation has eased from record highs, essential… View Article

People in poverty need policy solutions, not a report card 

Jul 29, 2024

By Rowan Burdge, Anastasia French and Veronique Sioufi

Last week, the BC Government released the first update to the Poverty Reduction Strategy since the inaugural plan in 2019. As organizations long committed to ending poverty in BC, we hoped to see plans for how the government would achieve the targets that they set in the spring—reducing the overall poverty rate in the province… View Article

Paying a living wage key to Canada’s post-COVID economic recovery

Nov 10, 2021

By Anastasia French, Ryan Lacanilao, Craig Pickthorne and Christine Saulnier

The cost of living in Canada is on the rise and for workers earning low wages, making ends meet continues to be a struggle. The living wage rates for cities and communities across the country have just been released and not surprisingly they are also on the rise. The 2021 rates include Vancouver ($20.52), Victoria… View Article