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The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) is an independent, non-partisan research institute concerned with issues of social, economic and environmental justice.

Writing from our researchers this year

Dec 18, 2024
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Precarious work, and the impacts of precarity on the lives of British Columbians and temporary foreign workers, is the focus of the Understanding Precarity project co-directed by CCPA-BC and was addressed by a number of researchers. Here are some highlights…. View Article

Writing from our researchers this year

Dec 16, 2024
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Housing—in particular a lack of affordable housing throughout BC—was a major concern for British Columbians this year and no doubt will continue in 2025. Our researchers wrote extensively on this issue. Here are some highlights…. View Article

Katharina Pistor

2024 Rosenbluth lecture with Dr. Katharina Pistor

Oct 11, 2024
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In this lecture, Dr. Pistor discusses themes from her latest book, The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality, which explores how the public institutions of the legal system—like property law or taxation—are used to create private wealth…. View Article

Beyond recovery panel discussion

Beyond Recovery: A paradox in COVID-19 pandemic recovery | Panel discussion

Apr 23, 2024
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This year, the CCPA–BC Office, in collaboration with SFU Faculty of Health Science researchers and UNITE HERE Local 40, published ‘A paradox in COVID-19 pandemic recovery: Increased precarity of women hotel workers in British Columbia’. A panel discussion held on April 10 featured the report’s authors and hotel industry workers. They explored the report’s findings,… View Article