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BC Government should not cave in to private clinics
It hasn’t been often that we at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives have found occasion to applaud the BC government for one of its…
BC’s incredible shrinking Environment Minister
Joyce Murray — BC’s Minister of the “Environment” (formally Water, Land and Air Protection) — does not seem to wield a whole lot of power…
BC’s social contract is being dismantled in revolutionary ways
With some recent privatization reversals, a number of business leaders and free market fundamentalists are concerned that the BC Liberals are backing away from the…
Promises, tax cuts and difficult choices
According to a report the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives released last week Nova Scotia is performing very poorly on the issue of reducing child…
December 2003: The Alternative Federal Budget
AFB shows how a better budget would lead to a better world CCPA staff, research associates, economists and NGO activists are busily at work drafting…
December 2003: Dark Clouds Over Medicare
Storm raging over health care in U.S. may spill over into Canada Even as Canadians struggle to maintain universal health care through our uniquely Canadian…
December 2003: LIberal or Neoliberal?
What can we expect from P.M. Martin? Read his budget speeches Paul Martin began his budget speech on February 27, 1995, with the following words:…
December 2003: Making a Living
Canada’s social activists should mount a “living wage” movement The goal of many social reformers dedicated to improving conditions for the poor is to enable…
December 2003: The Vanishing Country (Part II of III)
Personal incomes rise much more slowly in free trade years The noted Canadian economist Pierre Fortin tells us that, “during the 1990s, Canada’s aggregate economic…
Ethanol Ethics
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