Mark Milke argues in today’s Vancouver Sun that massive and growing inequality is not a serious problem. In his mind, anyone concerned about the growing gap between the rich and the rest of us must simply suffer from a bad case of envy. It is unfortunate that the Sun chose to run this piece the [...]
Shannon Daub’s Blog Posts
Shannon Daub is the Communications Director at the CCPA BC Office.
Opportunity will solve poverty, we can all get stinking rich if we work hard enough, and my pet unicorn is real
December 14th, 2010 · Shannon Daub · 2 Comments · Poverty, inequality & welfare
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Perverse outcomes of the Basi-Virk case
October 21st, 2010 · Shannon Daub · 10 Comments · Law & legal issues, Poverty, inequality & welfare
I — along with a whole lot of other British Columbians — have been stewing away about the abrupt end to the BC Rail trial, and the decision to let David Basi and Bob Virk completely off the hook for $6 million in legal fees. Politics of the matter aside, what really gets me is [...]
Tags: basi·basi-virk-trial·bc-rail·bcpiac·virk·welfare-overpayments
The loss of a kind and powerful person – Sandy Cameron
October 19th, 2010 · Shannon Daub · Comments Off · Poverty, inequality & welfare
We at the CCPA are saddened by the recent death of Sandy Cameron. Sandy was one of the kindest and most thoughtful people I’ve ever met. And he was a powerful person — not in the sense of formal power, but in the sense of inspiring others through his words and actions as an anti-poverty [...]
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Sshh. It’s an election.
October 7th, 2010 · Shannon Daub · Comments Off · BC Election 2009, Electoral reform, Law & legal issues
This piece, by myself and Heather Whiteside, also appeared in the Vancouver Sun today. It summarizes findings from Election Chill Effect: The Impacts of BC’s New Third Party Advertising Rules on Social Movement Groups, co-published yesterday by the CCPA, BC Civil Liberties Association, and BC’s Freedom of Information and Privacy Association. “For groups to be [...]
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Still reckless and unnecessary
August 27th, 2009 · Shannon Daub · 5 Comments · Economy, Provincial budget & finance
Gary Mason offers this summary of the past eight years in yesterday’s Globe: When B.C. Liberal Premier Gordon Campbell came to office in 2001 he unleashed a top-to-bottom review of all government agencies in an effort to bring finances in order. The result wasn’t pretty. It led to protests of all kinds from any number [...]
Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words
March 27th, 2009 · Shannon Daub · Comments Off · BC Election 2009, Children & youth, Housing & homelessness, Poverty, inequality & welfare
Or twenty thousand as the case may be. The CCPA published a number of major studies in recent years about BC’s unacceptably high levels of poverty and homelessness, as well as provincial welfare policies that contribute to hardship and homelessness. These issues are brought to life in a series of narrated slideshows created for the [...]
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End Poverty. It's Not a Game.
February 12th, 2009 · Shannon Daub · Comments Off · BC Election 2009, Housing & homelessness, Poverty, inequality & welfare
That’s the catchy slogan for the Poverty Olympics, which took place in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside on Sunday. The event mixed fun and games with a serious message about our province’s failure to adequately tackle poverty and homelessness while we spend spend spend getting ready for the 2010 Olympics (more in this Wall Street Journal article…or [...]
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Budget reality check
February 11th, 2009 · Shannon Daub · Comments Off · BC Election 2009, Provincial budget & finance
The provincial government officially changed its no-deficits-no-matter-what tune this week with its proposed amendments to BC’s balanced budget legislation. Not too surprising. To reject the view of economists far and wide that red is the new black by insisting on a balanced budget at all costs would be political suicide, not to mention bad policy. [...]
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