Category: News
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Protected: The Future of Primary Health Care in BC: We can and must do better
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Growing Justice: Health, safety and dignity for South Asian farmworker women in British Columbia
For decades, South Asian immigrant farmworker women have faced exploitative practices like wage theft, lack of access to clean washrooms and excessive and unpredictable hours. This report seeks to address these issues via policy reform.
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Urgent need for a windfall profits tax on oil and gas
How to prevent the fossil fuels corporations from making a killing on this illegal war, and put the revenues to better use.
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Budget analysis from around BC
While the provincial government frames BC Budget 2026 as a “stabilizing” plan, community groups and labour experts agree that this budget is a retreat from the public services we all rely on. We’ve rounded up responses and analyses from our partners, colleagues and allies across the province. They comment on the real-world impacts of the…
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🎬 Watch: Making sense of BC Budget 2026 (budget briefing)
Amid mounting pressures on public services, an unrelenting affordability crisis and significant economic uncertainty, the BC budget was widely expected to be an austerity budget—with government messaging signalling ahead of time sharp cuts to public services, health care and supports for families and seniors. In this session, our speakers share their analysis of this year’s…
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BC Budget 2026: A slow retreat from public services that leaves people to fend for themselves
With Budget 2026, the BC government has prioritized deficit and debt reduction at the expense of public investment that could have made life more affordable for BC families and built a more equitable future for the next generation.
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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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New policy directions in labour and climate precarity
BC Policy Solutions, in partnership with Understanding Precarity in BC and the Morgan Centre for Labour Research at Simon Fraser University, has launched a new research project titled New Policy Directions in Labour and Climate Precarity. The project seeks to shed light on the intersections of climate change and labour precarity in order to develop…
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The future of primary care in BC
This webinar series explores a better direction for primary care in BC with not-for-profit team-based models where diverse teams of practitioners offer a broad range of health and social supports that are responsive to local community’s needs.
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Climate change and labour precarity: a worker-centred agenda
Just as the COP30 meeting in Belen, Brazil ended, the last week of November was Canada Climate Week Xchange. We could hope this is good news, but instead of the week’s activities being sponsored by traditional climate organizations or climate innovators, it was organized by the Toronto Stock Exchange. Canada Climate Week stands out from…
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