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New CCPA study calculates British Columbians’ “cost shift”
Study details how British Columbians fare after one year of tax and spending cuts, provides on-line tool for individuals to calculate their personal bottom line…
School board budget struggles reflect provincial funding cuts
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. “The budget crises experienced by school boards across the province this year shouldn’t surprise anyone”, the author of a new…
Cost Shift
How British Columbians are paying for their tax cut Download 344.83 KB27 pages In June 2001 the provincial government introduced massive income tax cuts. It…
Cutting Classes
Elementary and Secondary Education Funding in Ontario Download 145.65 KB20 pages
Message to BC
Ontario learned the hard way The recent Ontario provincial budget probably doesn’t sound like exciting summer reading to most people, but British Columbians might want…
Mining land grab is a step backward
One of this province’s great success stories is a decade of land-use planning. In most areas of the province, we have gone from a culture…
Was your tax cut worth it?
When the Liberals took power in BC, the first order of business was a massive tax cut. Promising to revitalize the economy by putting more…
BC Commentary: A Review of Provincial Social and Economic Trends
Summer 2002, Volume 5, Number 3 Download 137.93 KB4 pages Inside this issue: The Global is Local: Shrinking the Public Sector in BC by Marc…
Public Power and the Political Economy of Electricity Competition
The Case of BC Hydro Download 179.05 KB 24 pages
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The tax freedom daze
It is hard to argue against freedom. After all, no one wants to be constrained from doing what they want to do. Free marketeers are…
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