Monthly Archives: March 2021

For immediate release to all media, March 17, 2021 The Communist Party of British Columbia calls the March 16 announcement of $175 monthly increases to people on income and disability assistance “totally inadequate to meet the needs of hundreds of thousands living in dire poverty” during the current pandemic and […]

It’s 2021, and mass poverty is still a reality in British Columbia. Despite some limited reforms under the NDP, almost 160,000 children and youth still live in poor households. And that was before the covid pandemic wiped out thousands of jobs, with the hardest impacts on women, youth, and racialized […]