Category: Research
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🎬 Optimizing nursing roles: building a stronger not-for-profit team-based primary care sector
This webinar highlights the leadership role that not-for-profit, nurse-led, team-based primary care organizations can play in creating a higher-quality, more cost-effective primary care system in BC.
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Protecting platform workers
BC Policy Solutions submission to the Ministry of Labour 2025/26 Review of Standards and Protections for Online Platform Workers
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🎬 How primary care can address the growing mental health crisis in BC
This is session 3 in our series on the Future of Primary Care in BC. We explore what it means to respond to the mental health crisis through primary care, rather than treating mental health as an “add-on” or separate system. We connect mental health to the social determinants of health and consider what primary…
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🎬 Learning from Ontario’s success: creating a thriving not-for-profit primary care sector
This is session two in our 5-part series: The Future of Primary Care in BC. This session shares Ontario as a case study for building a more robust not-for-profit primary care sector.
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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 not-for-profit advantage: a better future for primary care in BC
This is the first session in our 5-part series: The Future of Primary Care in BC. Session 1 — The not-for-profit advantage: a better future for primary care in BC introduces the core argument of the series: why primary care works better when it is team-based, community-governed and not-for-profit. The panelists examine what these models…
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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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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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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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