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Published: July 22, 2025

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How Canada can turn tariff tensions into a global affordable housing alliance

Factory-built modular and prefab housing could help build housing faster and cheaper

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What produce does Canada import? How the US, Mexico and other countries supply the Canadian market

Find out where your food comes from and what’s grown locally in Canada and BC with this interactive map

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Making it easier for people to get the government benefits and services they need

Identifying barriers to EI, CPP and more can help overcome wealth inequality

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Is sustainable development possible? Only if we take a unified approach

There are boundaries to what our planet can provide

Net benefit of basic income by country.

Basic income could solve global poverty and stop environmental destruction, study finds

Providing a basic income could boost global GDP while acting to curb environmental degradation

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Could AI help bring about the four-day workweek?

Increasing productivity could lead to layoffs or a better quality of life for all

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How to compete with AI and win in the job market

These human skills and qualities will become more valuable as AI changes the way we work

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What is the difference between the gig economy and the platform economy?

Gig work is much broader than Uber drivers and food-delivery workers

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Working in the gig economy? What you don’t know might hurt you

Gig workers must balance the risks and benefits as employment law starts to catch up

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Delay and deflect: How women gig workers respond to sexual harassment

The design of apps allows delivery drivers to be harassed with impunity

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A guaranteed basic income could end poverty, so why isn’t it happening?

Two UBC experts explain how a guaranteed basic income in Canada can be fair, simple and affordable.

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What is the circular economy?

Tied to reducing, reusing and recycling, this concept could be the key to a more sustainable future

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Instead of shopping this Black Friday, consider curbing your consumption

With plastic in everything from computers to clothing, UBC researchers connect what we’re buying to what’s harming our oceans

Getting to the HART of affordable housing

A new tool co-developed by UBC experts helps to estimate how much affordable housing a city needs

Aerial photo of a fishing trawler in the ocean with its nets cast out into the water to catch fish with

Putting an end to billions in fishing subsidies could improve fish stocks and ocean health

UBC’s Dr. Daniel Skerritt explains how fishing subsidies limit our ability to sustainably manage our fisheries