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Monitoring the privatization of public education – and resistance to it
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CCPA calls for anti-poverty strategy in 2000 BC Budget
(Vancouver) A stronger economy in 1999 will mean a much smaller deficit for 1999/00, creating room in the 2000 Budget for progressive policy choices, the…
British Columbia Budget 2000 Brief
Submitted to: The Honourable Paul Ramsey, Minister of Finance and Corporate Relations
Robin Hood in Reverse
Why Proposed Tax Cuts Worsen the Income Gap Download 49.33 KB
Checks and balances
Why the Calgary Herald Strike matters Canadians who care about democratic diversity in their daily newspapers should support the striking journalists at the Calgary Herald.…
Healthy solutions to the crisis in Medicare
Canadians love having a public health care system. Recently, however, rising costs, new technologies, and an aging population have led many to think they have…
What a progressive federal budget would look like
There is something profoundly sad and uninspiring about recent federal budget debates. For the better part of two decades now, we have been preoccupied with…
BC Commentary: A Review of Provincial Social and Economic Trends
Winter 2000, Volume 3, Number 1 Download 257.09 KB4 pages Inside this issue: Falling through the cracks: Poverty in British Columbia Cost of necessities rising…
Merger mania
Hardly a day passes without an item in the business pages announcing yet another merger or takeover. The tone of coverage is typically upbeat: bigger…
Federal budget surplus should benefit all Canadians
Centre calls for social reinvestment and fair tax reform (Vancouver) The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives–BC Office (CCPA-BC) is calling on Finance Minister Paul Martin…
Getting Tough On Kids
Young Offenders and the “Law and Order Agenda” Download 3.46 MB
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