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Community Initiation of Welfare-to-Work
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The Learning Tower of PISA
The recent release of results by the Project International Student Assessment (PISA) is always a subject for hand-wringing and apologetics on the part of Atlantic…
The GATS US-Gambling Decision
A Wakeup Call for WTO Members Download 593.82 KB10 pages
The State of Public Services in Manitoba – 2004
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Public Services in Manitoba Continue Decline: Report
Municipal Services in Winnipeg Earns Lowest Ranking READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Winnipeg – Manitoba is facing a looming social deficit and public services are…
Women’s Employment in BC
Effects of Government Downsizing and Employment Policy Changes 2001-2004 Download 472.24 KB48 pages
Provincial policies make working life tougher for women
Weakened public services and employment standards reduce women’s employment opportunities and undermine equitable working conditions READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Vancouver – The combination of…
BC’s surplus of irony
The Ministry of Finance’s second quarter update on the 2004/05 BC Budget deserves to be put in a museum as a wonderful example of the…
December 2004: Good Debt, Bad Debt
Alberta is not “debt-free” when foreigners own its resources When the Premier of Alberta announced a few months ago that his province was now “debt-free,”…
December 2004: Medicare Still on Life-Support
Health accord flawed by poor accountability and enforcement The health care accord reached last September by the federal, provincial, and territorial first ministers is a…
December 2004: The Right is Wrong and the Left is Right
Public opinion in Canada, as in the U.S., pulled to the right Reading Lewis Lapham’s chilling account in Harper’s of how public opinion in the…
December 2004: Time and Tide Wait for Progressive Politicians
Only political fossils would still prefer fossil fuels to tidal power It looks as though Paul Martin is leaning toward supporting B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell’s…
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