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INDIGENOUS PARENTING Breaking cycles
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2024
S Q U A M I S H C H I E F. C O M
SQUAMISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION HONES IN ON LOCAL LIVING WAGE
Organization contributed data to this year’s Living Wage BC report ALYSSA NOEL news@squamishchief.com
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PHOTO BY INDIGO LEMAY-CONWAY/THE SQUAMISH CHIEF
COMMUNITY CARES: Squamish Community Christmas Care volunteers with donations on Dec. 17. Around 430 hampers were delivered this year to families in need.
he living wage for Squamish has gone up by more than a dollar in the last year. To be exact: $1.63 from $25.13 to $26.76. “That was quite a jump, and it was also mostly due to rent—a rent increase,” said Karen Clarke, executive director of Squamish Community Foundation. “So that was surprising to me.” While Living Wage BC, along with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives BC Office, released the living wage—what it costs for a two-parent family of four to get by—for 25 B.C. communities last month, it’s local organizations that provide much of the data. Locally, the Squamish Community Foundation provided numbers and then released their own report honing in on this community last week. “A striking gap exists between the 2024 Squamish WAGE: Continued on 2
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