Posts by Veronique Sioufi

About Veronique Sioufi

Véronique Sioufi is the CCPA-BC’s Researcher for Racial & Socio-economic Equity. She is an interdisciplinary researcher who brings expertise in labour, economic geography, critical data studies, critical race theory and communication.

Véronique is a PhD candidate in Geography and holds an MA in Communication from Simon Fraser University. Her SSHRC-funded doctoral and masters’ research explored the uneven distribution of power and precarity in digital labour markets and social media movements.

Véronique is proud of her Palestinian heritage which makes her particularly sensitive to the geographies of politics and power. She is passionate about community-driven, collaborative and hopeful research.

Why BC needs sectoral bargaining now

Apr 4, 2024

By Iglika Ivanova and Veronique Sioufi

Too many BC workers lack meaningful access to the benefits of collective bargaining and the failure of our labour laws to keep up with the evolving nature of work is a key culprit…. View Article

Budget fails to fund enough supports for newcomers to BC

Mar 26, 2024

By Veronique Sioufi

New immigrants, temporary foreign workers and international students are bearing the brunt of the blame for the housing crisis and strain on public services where the provincial budget is failing to keep up with demand…. View Article

Evaluating BC Budget 2024’s commitments to racial equity

Mar 21, 2024

By Veronique Sioufi

Poverty reduction is a crucial element to advancing racial equity in BC, but the province’s new targets for reducing overall poverty are insufficiently ambitious and lack the urgency needed to effect meaningful change…. View Article

A paradox in COVID-19 pandemic recovery: Increased precarity of women hotel workers in British Columbia

Jan 24, 2024

By Alice Mũrage, Michelle Travis and Veronique Sioufi

REPORT: While BC’s accommodations and food services sector (AFS) received over a billion dollars in government COVID-19 subsidies, women workers—predominantly racialized and immigrants—either lost their employment or had hours and income significantly reduced…. View Article

Beyond “Happy Holidays!”: it’s time to support Canada’s increasing religious diversity

Dec 22, 2023

By Veronique Sioufi

Canada’s religious demographics have changed in the last 20 years. This is not being reflected in all facets of the structural fabric of society, particularly in the context of work and holidays…. View Article

New protections for BC platform workers entrench racism

Dec 13, 2023

By Veronique Sioufi and Iglika Ivanova

In November 2023, the BC Ministry of Labour announced new employment standards that claim to “bring fairness” to the estimated 40,000 ride-hail and food-delivery workers in BC. The move comes after a year of public engagement with platform workers, platform companies and labour experts, which brought to the fore the precarious working conditions of platform… View Article

Raising the bar: Our recommendations for equitable gig work in BC

Nov 2, 2023

By Veronique Sioufi and Iglika Ivanova

Platform companies like Uber, Lyft and Skip the Dishes derive profits at the expense of taxpayers’ contributions and workers’ health and safety. The BC government has a unique opportunity to set high standards for sustainable, responsible platform work and we are pleased to support the government’s deliberations on this issue. Read our 12 recommendations. … View Article

Fires and farmworkers: Climate justice means improving protections for migrant farmworkers

Sep 15, 2023

By Veronique Sioufi

The impacts of the climate crisis are socially and geographically uneven: the wealthiest regions contribute disproportionately to the destruction of the planet while the poorest regions suffer the heaviest consequences. In this context, migrant farmworkers find themselves doubly displaced, facing droughts and inundations in their home countries, then heatwaves, fires and floods where they come… View Article