A progressive take on BC issuesThe CCPA-BC, in partnership with a diverse coalition of community organizations, is launching a new research project titled “Metro Vancouver’s Colour-Coded Housing ...

Poverty reduction is a crucial element to advancing racial equity in BC, but the province’s recently announced new targets for reducing overall poverty are insufficiently ambitious and lack the ...

A progressive take on BC issuesBREAKING: officials in the Ministry of Forests have been working on a map that radically departs from the recommendations of a panel appointed by the provincial ...

We know there are significant pressures facing our valued public education system—overcrowding, chronic underfunding, a growing teacher shortage and inadequate support for students with diverse ...

No one should be told to file a Freedom of Information request simply to learn who works for them. Government must give members of the public access to up-to-date and useful information on who is ...

Platform companies like Uber, Lyft and Skip the Dishes derive profits at the expense of taxpayers’ contributions and workers’ health and safety. The BC government has a unique opportunity to set high ...

British Columbia is ahead of most North American jurisdictions in implementing composting and recycling programs. Yet, we are systemically burdened by endless amounts of packaging, especially the mass ...

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 ...

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 ...

As a fourth wave of COVID-19 ramps up, the impact of the pandemic on the economy, policymaking and budgets has not gone away. More broadly, government responses to the pandemic at both the national ...

As a fourth wave of COVID-19 ramps up, the impact of the pandemic on the economy, policymaking and budgets has not gone away. More broadly, government responses to the pandemic at both the national ...

While COVID-19 created unprecedented disruption for everyone, what stands out are the pandemic’s highly unequal impacts on British Columbians depending on race, class and gender. Lower-paid workers in ...