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

BREAKING: 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 government to advise it on how to ...

BREAKING: 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 government to advise it on how to ...

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 ...

We deliver timely, progressive commentary on issues that affect British Columbians, including the economy, poverty, inequality, climate change, provincial budgets, taxes, public services, employment ...

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 ...

A progressive take on BC issuesAbout Christine Saulnier Christine Saulnier is the Director, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Nova Scotia Office.

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 ...

A progressive take on BC issuesAbout Rhys Kesselman Rhys Kesselman is professor emeritus and former Canada Research Chair in the School of Public Policy at Simon Fraser University.

A progressive take on BC issuesAbout Daniel Perrin Daniel Perrin has years of policy expertise as a principal at Perrin, Thorau and Associates Ltd..

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 ...