Category: Report
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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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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BC’s current heat exposure regulations are outdated and insufficient to protect workers from the risks of extreme heat.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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Rebuilding post-secondary education as public infrastructure in BC
(or how we fix the predictable failures of marketization)
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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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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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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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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 report: BC Living Wage 2025
The living wage in Metro Vancouver is now $10 more per hour than BC’s minimum wage. A rising cost of living—especially for housing—has caused Metro Vancouver’s living wage to accelerate to the highest amount since the calculation began. View the report and all 27 community calculations.
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