Events
Columbia Institute partnered with The Tyee to organize a gala celebration dedicated to hearing stories from BC's leading reporters and story tellers on what's shaping our lives. Held on March 6, 2017, at the Creekside Community Centre, the evening event included an Ethiopian buffet dinner, a silent auction, and mingling with friends, who care about the communities we live in. View photos here.
The past year has brought significant changes: a shift in our federal government and with that a fresh focus on infrastructure and communities, and the signing of the historic climate change agreement in Paris. It's an important time for us to gather to reboot and connect!
Our 2016 civic governance forum was held in Harrison Hot Springs from April 1-2.
Under the banner, “Building Community… at Home and in the Horn,” we held our first fundraiser in partner with Parnters in the Horn of Africa on November 30, 2015 at the Ukranian Orthodox Church in Vancouver.the evening program includes a networking reception, an Ethiopian buffet dinner, a live speed painting presentation with the painting being auctioned off after dinner, and a silent auction.
The evening program included a networking reception, an Ethiopian buffet dinner, a live speed painting presentation with the painting being auctioned off after dinner, and a silent auction.
Ken Georgettti (President Emeritus of the Canadian Labour Congress – Congrès du travail du Canada) emceed the event.
All proceeds raised at the event will support the sustainable community development, education, and leadership building projects in Canada and Ethiopia.
Click here for photos.
Once opposed to the Housing First model to help his city’s homeless population, Medicine Hat Mayor Ted Clugston is now a convert. This story was told as part of the Poverty-Free BC Speaker Series in April 2015.
Our 2015 civic governance forum was held at the Coast Plaza Hotel & Suites in Vancouver, BC from March 20 to March 21.
On September 23, we held a special event for friends – new and old – in Whistler during UBCM.
The 2014 Civic Governance Forum took place at the Coast Coal Harbour Hotel in Vancouver from April 4-5.
Tools for Fair Taxation, with economist and CCPA research associate Hugh Mackenzie.
Hugh Mackenzie is principal in an economic consulting business, Hugh Mackenzie and Associates, based in Toronto. He has worked for over 35 years in a variety of capacities related to public policy development in the trade union movement, the private sector, and at all three levels of government.
He is a Research Associate of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
He is a regular contributor to CCPA and other publications on provincial budgetary issues in general and the funding of elementary and secondary education in particular. He was Executive Director of the Ontario Fair Tax Commission from 1991 to 1994. In that capacity, he was the author of the Commission’s work on education finance and local government finance.
He was a founding board member of People for Education.
