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Assessing the Liberals’ Allocation of the Fiscal Dividend Download 117.21 KB
The crumbling foundation of Medicare in BC
British Columbians are fed a stream of bad news about our public health care system. But there is one very common health story we rarely…
Private clinics no help to Canada’s public health care system
The election campaign has re-opened the debate about private clinics. Promoters of these clinics argue they will decrease waiting times and supplement, not undercut, the…
What happened to the national home care program?
In 1997, after wide consultation across the country, the federal government’s National Forum on Health concluded that home care should be considered an integral part…
November 2000: Arming A Genocidal Force
Canadian military exports to Indonesia, 1979-1999 As the Indonesian army and its militias set fire to Dili and killed thousands of East Timorese in September…
The Lottery in Which Everyone Wins?
Assessing the Latest Liberal Tax Cuts Download 126.66 KB
Environmental tax shifting cannot replace regulation
The BC government released a discussion paper a few months ago on a relatively new policy tool: environmental tax shifting. The paper was intended to…
Environmental tax shifting cannot replace regulation
New CCPA report offers a framework for evaluating environmental taxes and cautions against using tax shifting as a panacea CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL…
Shifting Ground
A CCPA-BC Policy Brief on the Potential and Limitations of Environmental Tax Shifting Download 228.33 KB20 pages
Internal trade negotiations a solution in search of a problem, CCPA says
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Ottawa) Federal-provincial negotiations to expand the Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT) should be stopped, according to a briefing…
CCPA calls for government action to improve the lives of women in British Columbia
(Vancouver) On the eve of the World March of Women and a conference on women’s economic security co-hosted by Premier Ujjal Dosanjh and Women’s Equality…
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