Category: Research
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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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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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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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Minimum wage hike won’t allow workers to live with dignity
Imagine working full-time, juggling multiple jobs and struggling to afford rent, groceries or child care. This is an everyday reality for hundreds of thousands of British Columbians. On June 1, BC’s minimum wage increases to $17.85 an hour from $17.40: a welcome raise for low-wage workers, but far short of a living wage. A living…
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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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Ideas to meet the moment
Ahead of the April 26 event with Naomi and Seth Klein (The NEW Shock Doctrine: an evening with Naomi Klein at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts), the BC Policy Solutions research team reached out to our advisory boards, research associates and collaborators to produce a pamphlet with ideas that confront the challenges of…
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