Author: Alex Hemingway
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The new robber barons: a quarter century of wealth concentration in Canada
Wealth and political influence tend to reinforce each other. Tracking who owns wealth and how that distribution is changing is more important than ever for the health of our democracy and the future of Canada.
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Is it time to ban tipping in Canada and enact a living wage?
While tipping boosts workers’ overall pay when compared to a minimum wage floor, a growing body of research highlights its negative aspects.
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This is why BC’s housing crisis hasn’t been solved yet
The magnitude of the housing shortage is huge, the problems chronic, but the housing crisis is solvable. Throughout the province and country, the housing crisis is marked by high rents and prices, a scarcity of homes, displacement, homelessness and the quiet exclusion of people from entire neighbourhoods. While a boon to some, high housing costs…
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Three missed opportunities in Canada’s federal budget
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first federal budget comes at an important moment for Canada as we face an increasingly hostile United States and the need to chart our own path. The choices this government makes now will have real effects on the lives of British Columbians and Canadians. There’s a lot to unpack in the…
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Budget 2025 should bolster employee ownership to strengthen Canada’s economy
Budget 2025 is an opportunity to make employee ownership permanent and boost productivity by extending and expanding the capital gains exemption for EOTs.
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🎬 The housing crisis is solvable—key policies + local lessons
[Webinar recording] Alex Hemingway ( senior economist, BC Policy Solutions) and Sarah Ellis (Executive Director, Squamish Community Housing Society and former city planner) discuss BC’s housing crisis and what is needed to make real progress to tackle this critical issue that has been overwhelming BC for far too long.
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Democratic and electoral reform—presentation to legislative committee
On July 17th, senior economist Alex Hemingway provided recommendations to the provincial legislature’s Special Committee on Democratic and Electoral Reform. Following is Alex’s presentation to the committee. Focusing my remarks on a single, concrete recommendation for strengthening democratic engagement in BC, we recommend the province make greater use of what are known in the research…
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Budget 2026—presentation to legislative committee
BC Policy Solutions’s recommendations to the provincial legislature’s Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services: Annual Budget Consultation.
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A wealth tax could raise half a trillion dollars for a stronger, fairer Canada
Article sections Under threat from a volatile United States, Canada needs to chart our own path to build a more self-reliant, just and equitable economy. A time like this calls for nation-building: we can’t afford austerity or cutbacks, nor can we afford to let the super-rich call the shots in our economy and public policy. …
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Democratic employee ownership for a resilient Canadian economy
Canada is facing an unprecedented threat from an unpredictable and hostile US administration and we need to do something new and different, fast.
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