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BC's increasing living wage: 2024 Update
https://policyalternatives.ca/newsroom/updates/bcs-increasing-living-wage-2024-update
Published: November 18, 2024 19:17
An affordability crisis—particularly for housing—fuels Metro Vancouver’s increasing living wage.
Read the report.
Canada Disability Benefit: Getting it right out of the gate
https://policyalternatives.ca/newsroom/updates/canada-disability-benefit-getting-it-right-out-gate
Published: October 16, 2024 12:26
Read the full report here.
The Canada Disability Benefit is a new benefit aimed at reducing poverty for Canadians with disabilities. It will take effect in 2025. Researchers at the National office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA)…
A sharp Manitoba analysis of the National Housing Strategy
https://policyalternatives.ca/newsroom/updates/sharp-manitoba-analysis-national-housing-strategy
Published: October 10, 2024 12:02
Measuring the impact of the NHS depends on how affordability is defined—affordable for whom? Read full report here.
A Decade of Migrant Care Worker Programs: Addressing Racism and Precarity in Canada
https://policyalternatives.ca/newsroom/updates/decade-migrant-care-worker-programs-addressing-racism-and-precarity-canada
Published: September 25, 2024 17:57
This report identifies problems with Canada’s migrant care worker programs and demonstrates why permanent residency is a requisite for necessary program changes.
Building Equity: Lessons for Affordable Housing in BC
https://policyalternatives.ca/newsroom/updates/building-equity-lessons-affordable-housing-bc
Published: September 11, 2024 18:18
Scarce and expensive housing is eroding BC’s economy. This report looks to a solutions agenda.
Call for proposals: The Omatsu Files
https://policyalternatives.ca/newsroom/updates/call-proposals-omatsu-files
Published: July 9, 2024 09:57
Focused on equity, diversion, inclusion and anti-racism? We might publish your work!
The Monitor is a quarterly magazine focused on public policy, published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA)—Canada’s leading progressive think tank. We…
Election 2024: Policy Solutions for a Better Saskatchewan
https://policyalternatives.ca/newsroom/updates/election-2024-policy-solutions-better-saskatchewan
Published: June 5, 2024 11:25
Click here to read the Saskatchewan office of the CCPA's list of policy priorities for this election.
As Saskatchewan heads into what may be the most competitive provincial election in years, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives wants to ensure that…
Trapped in the wage gap
https://policyalternatives.ca/newsroom/updates/trapped-wage-gap-0
Published: May 30, 2024 09:08
Even with a minimum wage increase, too many BC workers are trapped with low wages, earning less than it costs to live in the province.
Read the report here:Â https://policyalternatives.ca/gap
Log it and burn it: wood pellets, climate and BC’s deepening forest crisis
https://policyalternatives.ca/newsroom/updates/log-it-and-burn-it-wood-pellets-climate-and-bc%25E2%2580%2599s-deepening-forest-crisis
Published: April 24, 2024 09:51
BC’s forests are in crisis. The sharp increase in wood pellet exports to Japan is fueling the loss of BC primary forests. The indicators of unsustainable demand are evident, and without proper reforms, we are looking at lasting and devastating consequences…
2024 federal budget analysis roundup
https://policyalternatives.ca/newsroom/updates/2024-federal-budget-analysis-roundup
Published: April 16, 2024 18:01
This page exists to bring together progressive policy organizations' responses to the 2024 federal budget. Keep an eye on this page, as it will continue to be updated in the coming days.
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Federal government goes big on housing—is it…