Category: Research
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A roadmap for building BC’s AI public policy framework
How does AI work? Who profits? What does its use cost workers, communities and our environment? This report explores these questions and offers concrete policy recommendations to protect workers, civil rights and the economy.
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BC has a racial housing gap that colour-blind policy will never close
Canada’s housing crisis runs unevenly along racial lines. This brief explores what this racial gap in housing looks like in BC and what municipalities and the provincial government can do to address it.
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DRIPA, The 1846 Oregon Treaty and the future of Indigenous-settler relations
This working paper explores the coloniality crisis that has arisen in the wake of two landmark court decisions (Cowichan Tribes v. Canada and Gitxaala v. British Columbia) and the threat to roll back DRIPA.
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Protecting BC workers in a warming climate: Recommendations for WorkSafeBC
BC’s current heat exposure regulations are outdated and insufficient to protect workers from the risks of extreme heat. The recommendations below are offered to inform the revision of the BC Thermal Exposure regulations to ensure the most vulnerable workers are protected.
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On the record: What we told the BC government ahead of Budget 2027
BC Policy Solution’s submission to BC’s 2027 budget consultation.
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🎬 Fighting for DRIPA: Countering the colonial backlash to recent Supreme Court Decisions
Dr. Lorna Wanosts’a7 Williams and Dr. John Price discuss the controversies that have arisen in response to the Cowichan and Gitxaala court decisions and the BC government’s threat to suspend DRIPA.
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Rebuilding post-secondary education as public infrastructure in BC
(or how we fix the predictable failures of marketization)
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🎬 North Star Dialogues for change 2026: Confronting migrant injustice in the new era of immigration policy
Confronting migrant injustice in the new era of immigration policy, features leading voices in legal advocacy, research and lived experience to examine what recent immigration policy shifts actually mean, who they affect and what a more just immigration system could look like.
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Not making enough to live: A third of workers in British Columbia don’t earn a living wage
New Statistics Canada data show a growing gap between wages and the cost of living, with one third of workers in British Columbia—more than 775,000 people—earning less than the living wage in their communities.
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The Future of Primary Health Care in BC: We can and must do better
This discussion paper is intended as a companion document to the Future of Primary Care in BC webinar series. The series highlighted positive examples of what is working well on the ground in communities across BC and in jurisdictions that have embraced system change and the shift to team-based primary care.
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