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Health Accord is welcome, but national standards still in jeopardy
The federal government deserves credit for finally acknowledging that a decade of health spending cuts has taken a toll on medicare. And provincial, territorial and…
Our Schools/Our Selves: Fall 2000
What Should We Spend on Education? Highlights from the Year 2000 Alternative Federal Budget and the Ontario Alternative Budget The Alternative Budgets The Alternative Federal…
Who Do We Try to Rescue Today?
Canada Under Corporate Rule For the past 10 years, CCPA Monitor Editor Ed Finn has been writing about the various aspects of corporate rule, and…
Vancouver Island Highway brings changing face of labour to construction
No one is surprised, these days, to encounter a female doctor, lawyer or accountant. Erasing occupational barriers for women was one of the aims of…
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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