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Taking the Spin Out of the Economic and Fiscal Update: A Guide to the Numbers
Alternative Federal Budget 2006: Technical Paper #3 Download 115.45 KB8 pages
Alternative Federal Budget decodes the spin, provides a guide to the Economic and Fiscal Update
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA—Monday’s Economic and Fiscal Update is animated more by politics than economics. In the present political circumstances the temptation for…
FastFacts: The Employment Standards Act
Improving Conditions for Low-Wage Workers Download 33.76 KB 2 pages
Paying our public servants
The season of public sector bargaining is upon us. While the teachers’ strike is over, bargaining now starts in earnest for the vast majority of…
Paying Our Public Servants
The Dollars and Sense of BC and National Wage Trends Download 90.42 KB8 pages
The Vanishing Efficiency Gains of Debt Repayment
Alternative Federal Budget 2006: Technical Paper #2 Download 209.13 KB22 pages
Debt repayment arguments don’t add up: Report
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—A new study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives finds that, contrary to popular belief,…
Provincial government risks recruitment and turnover problems if it ignores wage trends in next round of public sector bargaining
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Vancouver–As the BC government enters into collective bargaining with over 80% of the province’s public sector workers, it will have…
November 2005: Task Force Recommendation Ignored
On August 14, 2003, a poorly maintained electricity system–like a levee holding back water–failed and drained all the power from 50 million Canadians and Americans.…
November 2005: Canada Takes Credit—But is the Credit Due?
UN’s “responsibility to protect” policy fails humanitarian test The Canadian government has claimed credit for the UN’s recent endorsement of the “responsibility to protect.” But…
November 2005: Cancer—The Price of Progress
Industrial pollution cancer just another cost of doing business My concern about the rising incidence of cancer prompted me to start writing a book in…
November 2005: Low on Energy
World oil shortage could trigger next major shift in global power My history teacher was an intimidating person. It seemed that there was nothing in…
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