Category: News
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Rising to meet the moment: From BC Policy Solutions’ new co-Executive Directors
We are excited to introduce ourselves as the new Co-Executive Directors of BC Policy Solutions and to share our vision for this pivotal moment in BC’s history.
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Open Letter: the safety net is tearing—funders must act now
To our funders (governments, foundations, philanthropists, labour unions, and businesses), We are nonprofit leaders from across British Columbia, writing with growing concern for the future of our sector and the communities we serve.
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Wrapping up my time at BC Policy Solutions 👋
A message from Kevin Millsip, Executive Director, BC Policy Solutions We’re sending out this note—and posting it here, too—to let you know that I will soon be wrapping up my time with BC Policy Solutions. A little over a year ago the BC Libraries Cooperative, where I’ve served as executive director for about seven years,…
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The lesson from tariffs: investing in people (not austerity) pays off
The trade war creates a generational opportunity to reduce dependence on exporting raw resources and pivot towards a cleaner, more diversified economy that meets people’s needs.
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Could Mamdani’s bold agenda work in BC?
Article by Véronique Sioufi. Well beyond New York City’s boroughs, Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani has captured public attention with a comprehensive, unapologetically socialist mayoral platform.
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Counteracting campus precarity
The Counteracting Campus Precarity research project begins from the conviction that for universities to produce the knowledge that can help us confront the most serious social problems of our time, our campuses must be kept clean and safe and our community must have food to eat.
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Book review—Dangerous memories: how the 1980s formed the 2020s
Angus rethinks the cultural and political shifts of an era that unleashed unprecedented looting of the economy and the environment, resulting in social problems that laid the groundwork for our current situation of widening inequality and economic insecurity.
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How BC labour laws enabled historic organizing wins and what comes next
Article by Véronique Sioufi and Iglika Ivanova Véronique Sioufi is the Racial Equity Researcher and Policy Analyst Iglika Ivanova is co-Executive Director and a Senior Economist at BC Policy Solutions. British Columbia just made labour history. In July 2025, two breakthrough union certifications occurred: Uber drivers in Victoria joined UFCW 1518 to become the first platform…
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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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If we’re in an economic war, why aren’t we talking about war taxes?
Article by Seth Klein: originally published by Canada’s National Observer “The one thing that can stop the rise of the far right is the one thing mainstream parties are currently not prepared to deliver: greater equality. The rich should be taxed more, and the revenue used to improve the lives of the poor.”— Writer and Guardian…
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