Posts by Iglika Ivanova

About Iglika Ivanova

Iglika Ivanova is a Senior Economist and the Public Interest Researcher at the CCPA’s BC Office. She researches and writes on key social and economic challenges facing BC and Canada, including poverty, economic insecurity and labour market shifts towards more precarious work. Iglika is Co-Director of the Understanding Precarity in BC Project (UP-BC)

Iglika also investigates issues of government finance, tax policy and privatization and how they relate to the accessibility and quality of public services. She is particularly interested in the potential for public policy to build a more just, inclusive and sustainable economy. Follow Iglika on Twitter

A Framework for Enhancing Home Support in BC

May 4, 2009

By Iglika Ivanova

Home support is an important element of the broader home and community care system, which unfortunately tends to get overlooked in many health care discussions. Home support serves an important dual purpose: it improves the quality of life of vulnerable citizens by allowing them to continue living independently in their own homes and it enables… View Article

Seniors’ care concerns should be taken seriously in this election

May 1, 2009

By Iglika Ivanova

Access to residential care beds for seniors was dubbed “an election hotspot” by CTV early last week, and for good reasons. The party that forms government after May’s election will have to deal with the pressures that the aging population would put on the already strained system of seniors’ care in BC. Fundamentally, providing an… View Article

Your government cares about seniors (in up to five communities across the province)

Apr 7, 2009

By Iglika Ivanova

This is the message that the Minister of Healthy Living and Sport Mary Polak sent out yesterday with the announcement of a new partnership between the government and the United Way of the Lower Mainland. As part of this partnership, the government will spend $700,000 to fund what sounds like a broad-based community consultation with… View Article

Is the stimulus killing the P3 model?

Mar 27, 2009

By Iglika Ivanova

While BC has not formally abandoned the P3 model, there is a notable absence of new P3 projects at a time when billions of dollars are being channeled to infrastructure spending. If P3s really provided value for money and brought the benefits of private sector efficiency and innovation to the delivery of public-sector infrastructure, then… View Article

Is funnelling money into shovel-ready projects the best strategy for infrastructure development?

Mar 27, 2009

By Iglika Ivanova

I often get asked: “Shouldn’t we support the Olympics or the Port Mann bridge (or any of the multitude of poorly handled infrastructure projects in our province) despite their substantial cost overruns on the grounds that they will create jobs and benefit the economy?” The problem with this question is that it allows for two… View Article

Food as a right of citizenship

Mar 19, 2009

By Iglika Ivanova

I came across an interesting piece in YES! Magazine about a city in Brazil that took an innovative approach to poverty reduction and practically ended hunger by adopting a food-as-a-right policy. Belo Horizonte, the fourth largest city in Brazil, has a population of 2.5 million people, slightly larger than the Lower Mainland. The city grappled… View Article

New CCPA study finds growing inequality and declining family incomes in BC

Mar 11, 2009

By Iglika Ivanova

Yesterday the CCPA released a new study on family income inequality in BC by yours truly, which reveals some disturbing statistics about family incomes over the past 30 years. Among our other key findings: The gap between the wealthiest and the majority of BC families has grown dramatically over the past 30 years. The share… View Article

Behind the dramatic drop in the budget of the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and the Arts

Feb 27, 2009

By Iglika Ivanova

Budget commentators across the province (including Marc Lee on this blog) noted the lack of drastic spending cuts to government programs. While there were some cuts to the budgets of particular ministries, such as Aboriginals Relations and Reconciliation, Community Development and Finance, most of those did not seem debilitating (see Table 1.4 on p. 11… View Article

Accounting games of Olympic proportion

Feb 20, 2009

By Iglika Ivanova

The long awaited 2010 security budget was finally unveiled today. The latest estimate pegs the cost of securing the Olympics at $900 million or just over five times more than the original estimate of $175 million. BC’s portion of the total now sits at $252.5 million or roughly three times more than its original price… View Article

Talk of addressing homelessness in Throne Speech remains just that

Feb 17, 2009

By Iglika Ivanova

Yesterday’s Throne Speech got me excited with its promise of finally addressing homelessness in BC. Like everyone else, I expected the economy to be the main focus of the document and was not surprised to hear that the government is planning to create jobs through ramping up infrastructure spending. But then I got to page… View Article

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Posts by Iglika Ivanova

About Iglika Ivanova

A Framework for Enhancing Home Support in BC

Seniors’ care concerns should be taken seriously in this election

Your government cares about seniors (in up to five communities across the province)

Is the stimulus killing the P3 model?

Is funnelling money into shovel-ready projects the best strategy for infrastructure development?

Food as a right of citizenship

New CCPA study finds growing inequality and declining family incomes in BC

Behind the dramatic drop in the budget of the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and the Arts

Accounting games of Olympic proportion

Talk of addressing homelessness in Throne Speech remains just that