Recently our senior economist Alex Hemingway with @c4tf.bsky.social Silas Xuereb authored the report The New Robber Barons: A Quarter Century of Wealth Concentration in Canada.
Read an interview with Silas in Jacobin
We’ve rounded up responses and analyses from our partners, colleagues and allies across the province on #BCBudget2026. They comment on the real-world impacts of the government’s fiscal choices and why we need a budget that puts people first.
Check them out!
The provincial government frames #BCBudget2026 as a “stabilizing” plan, community groups—including those working with seniors and students and in housing—and labour experts agree that this budget is a retreat from the public services we all rely on.
Read their analyses.
We compiled what our friends and allies think of #BCBudget2026.
Read analysis by community groups, labour and student organizations.
This agreement is AWFUL. For energy projects (of national interest), Canada will defer its responsibility for impact assessments to Alberta’s captive energy regulator (the AER), despite its legacy of putting industry profits over the public interest www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #CDNPoli #ABLeg #ABPoli
From our allies at @bchealthcoalition.bsky.social.
www.bchealthcoalition.ca/join_the_ral...
Snowing in Renfrew-Collingwood @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social
This is the cloud of oil currently hovering over Tehran, released when the US bombed the city's oil depots. A stew of particulate matter, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, benzene, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, heavy metals & volatile organic compounds is raining down into the city right now. 1/2
If you missed our second primary health care webinar, Learning from Ontario’s success: creating a thriving not-for-profit primary care sector, the recording is now available.
Have a watch and sign up for the next session on March 25 or for the full series!
bcpolicy.ca/primary-care...
BC’s land use policies are outdated and rezoning public lands could mean conserving at-risk primary forests, restoring lands and supporting jobs, award-winning journalist & policy analyst Ben Parfitt will explain on April 16, 5:00 pm at @uvic.ca.
More information & tickets.
bcpolicy.ca/events/
$10aDay child care is at risk. Without proper funding, families face rising fees and longer waitlists.
Tell PM Carney to keep the promise: childcarenow.ca/letter
#KeepTheChildCarePromise
Not-for-profit primary care centres can partner with housing providers, social service groups and local governments to deliver care a community needs with multi-service hubs.
Learn more at the 2nd session of our webinar series TODAY @ noon PT.
Join us! Register
bcpolicy.ca/primary-care/
A team-based approach is diverse and better equipped to meet health care needs than a doctor working alone.
Learn more, including examples from Ontario, in the next session of our primary care webinar series TOMORROW at noon PT.
March 4: Information and Registration.
bcpolicy.ca/primary-...
Canadian gvt gets a reality check from visiting EU officials www.nationalobserver.com/2026/03/02/n...
In our 2nd primary care webinar TOMORROW learn how infrastructure and funding can increase opportunities for not-for-profit primary care organizations to coordinate and integrate primary and social care services in their local community.
Join us! Register.
March 4 Noon PT.
Ontario Community Health Centres are local hubs that combine medical care with prevention-oriented, community-based social supports with multiple services in one place.
Tomorrow learn how primary & social care services can be coordinated and integrated.
March 4 Noon PT.
bcpolicy.ca/primary-care/
BC’s minimum wage will increase to $18.25/hour on June 1 but Living Wage BC and BC Policy Solutions says it falls short of a living wage across the province.
They call on the province to raise the minimum wage to $20 per hour to help narrow the gap.
The group Contract Worker Justice has been sounding the alarm about poor working conditions at @sfu.ca and heavy-handed management since COVID19 started in 2020.
Metro Vancouver's living wage is $27.85 says BC Society for Policy Solutions, but not all workers earn it.
Canadian practitioners and communities are already building successful primary health care models.
Learn how Ontario is creating a thriving not-for-profit primary care sector in session 2 of our webinar series.
Join us for this session, Mar 4 noon PT, or the remaining 3.
bcpolicy.ca/primary-...
In a cost of living crisis, families are depending on the federal govt. to follow through with their promise on $10aDay child care. Yet, without federal investment, families risk higher fees and longer waitlists. Urge Prime Minister Carney to keep the child care promise:
childcarenow.ca/letter
"This is Europe’s new reality: under water in winter, withered in summer. Yet even as the weather extremes worsen, the voices of denial have grown louder and more influential."
Check out the photos in this piece.
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Listen Now ON OUR POD: Economist Alex Hemingway talks about the report, The New Robber Barons: A quarter century of wealth concentration in Canada. @1alexhemingway.bsky.social @silasxuereb.bsky.social @bcpolicy.bsky.social #canPoli #BCpoli tiny.cc/k1jz001
6:30 pm TODAY: #BCBudget2026 health care cuts will be especially felt in under-served communities.
Senior economist Iglika Ivanova joins a BC Health Coalition webinar on what proposed budget cuts could mean for emergency services and access to care.
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Tomorrow 6:30 pm PT: Health care budget cuts will be felt in rural, underserved communities.
A BC Health Coalition webinar: senior economist Iglika Ivanova, a paramedic, northern deputy mayor on possible consequences for access to care. #BCBudget
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More Canadian children are living in poverty, including nearly half of children on reserve: campaign2000.ca/new-release-...
Today is Pink Shirt Day. Bullying doesn't stop at the school gates; it's more likely where power is concentrated, and accountability is weak. The same conditions that make schools and communities less safe for kids make workplaces less safe for adults. 💗
Choose kindness. #PinkShirtDay
Investing in the public sector can grow the economy to benefit all and is critical to private sector growth senior economist Iglika Ivanova told the @LeftEasttoWest podcast.
And increasing revenue—not focusing on the deficit—makes life more affordable.
Tomorrow 6:30 pm PT hear how #BCBudget2026 especially affects health care in rural and northern communities.
Senior economist Iglika Ivanova joins a BC Health Coalition webinar to outline what cuts could mean for emergency services & local economies.
us02web.zoom.us/webi...
Do you want to make sense of #BCBudget2026?
Learn about: more than the #s; context; comprehensive analysis of:
The debt
Spending cuts
Climate (in)action
Hear from Iglika Ivanova, Véronique Sioufi, Sven Biggs in our full budget analysis.
bcpolicy.ca/budget2026
🚨NEW REPORT:
Our new report, along with our friends at BC Policy Solutions, estimates wealth concentration in Canada from 1999-2023. We find that the share of wealth owned by the top 1% increased from 19.3% to 22.7% over this period.
www.taxfairness.ca/en/resources...
