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New CCPA report lauds Vancouver Island Highway construction as a model for equity training and hiring
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) The face of labour is changing, and the Vancouver Island Highway Project offers a Labour Day lesson…
The Road to Equity
Training Women and First Nations on the Vancouver Island Highway – A Model for Large-Scale Construction Projects Download 188.1 KB17 pages
BC forest industry needs to do more with its wood
In the last two weeks, three news stories on BC’s forest industry told a pretty compelling story about the state of the industry and its…
The case of the missing deficit
What a difference a year and a half makes. Last week’s announcement that BC booked a surplus of $52 million in the 1999/00 fiscal year…
Business lobby cries wolf over Manitoba’s labour law changes
Opposition to Bill 44’s proposed changes to labour legislation, led by a handful of business lobbyists and echoed by Free Press editorials, takes two main…
Lessons to learn from BC’s resource crisis
It has been said that those who do not know their history are doomed to repeat it. After the crisis in BC’s resource sectors during…
Crisis in BC’s resource sectors driven mainly by global factors
New CCPA study highlights failure of resource corporations to adequately invest in the province CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) The BC Office…
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In the corporate interest
The YNN experience in Canadian schools CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT The presence of the Youth News Network (YNN) has disrupted the school…
In the Corporate Interest
The YNN Experience in Canadian Schools Download 155.94 KB47 pages
Beware the tax cut siren song
It’s finally summer, and heat waves have replaced “tax rage”–for the time being anyway. The campaign for lower taxes and smaller government is sure to…
The fateful summer of 1962
Foes of Medicare turn Douglas’s dream into a nightmare As a witness to the birth of Medicare in Canada, and as someone who played a…
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