Your quick guide to election issues
Oct 16, 2024
CCPA–BC articles casting light on issues of most importance to voters and evaluated solutions being floated on the campaign trail by the major parties… View Article
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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.
2024 Rosenbluth lecture with Dr. Katharina Pistor
Oct 11, 2024
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: A paradox in COVID-19 pandemic recovery | Panel discussion
Apr 23, 2024
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
BC Budget: Big Challenges—Small Steps
Feb 22, 2024
The provincial budget stands up to austerity pressures but falls short on meeting urgent challenges facing the people of BC…. View Article
2023 Gideon Rosenbluth Memorial Lecture with Economist Ha-Joon Chang
Oct 24, 2023
(video) Economist Ha-Joon Chan delivers the 2023 Gideon Rosenbluth Memorial Lecture, co-hosted by the CCPA-BC and the UBC Vancouver School of Economics…. View Article
Open letter on regulating platform work from BC experts in labour law, policy and economics
Jun 20, 2023
The following is an open letter released today led by the CCPA–BC and the Centre for Future Work. It is signed by 61 leading experts in labour law, policy and economics (signatories listed below). The letter urges the BC government to implement strong measures to ensure that ride-share and food delivery platforms fulfill the same… View Article
Being a Hope Amid Crises with Dr. Cornel West
Feb 16, 2022
The CCPA-BC Office and the BC Black History Awareness Society co-presented an online event with Dr. Cornel West on Wednesday, February 16, 2022. View the video recording of the event below. Dr. West is an American philosopher, political activist, social critic and public intellectual. He is the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Chair at Union Theological Seminary. He… View Article
BC oil and gas royalty review seriously flawed without consideration of water
Nov 25, 2021
Open letter to the provincial government As prospects grow for intensified gas extraction in our province, we applaud the provincial government’s decision to review British Columbia’s decades-old oil and gas royalty regime. This once in a generation review is essential, given the significant threats posed to the climate and the environment by continued fossil fuel… View Article
84 doctors, health experts & economists across Canada call on BC government to show national leadership with 10 days paid sick leave
Oct 21, 2021
As economists and health experts from across Canada, we urge the BC government to implement a robust employer-paid sick leave program that includes at least 10 paid sick days for workers. Employer-paid sick days are already a right of workers in most developed countries around the world, including a majority of OECD countries, because they… View Article
TMX: What’s at stake?
Oct 29, 2020
New research from veteran earth scientist David Hughes concludes that the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion project (TMX) makes no financial sense. In fact, Alberta heavy oil producers can expect to lose money on every barrel of oil they produce and move through TMX. Contrary to claims that bringing heavy oil to tidewater for export to… View Article