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Facing the Facts
A Guide to the GATS Debates Download 917.43 KB 113 pages Non-governmental organizations have lifted the veil of obscurity on the little-known General Agreement on…
FastFacts: Eliminate, Don’t Deregulate, Surcharge for Foreign Students
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Getting rid of the Reference Drug Program would be a costly mistake
New CCPA report says program saves Pharmacare millions and should be retained CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) The Canadian Centre for Policy…
Paying for What Works
BC’s Experience With the Reference Drug Program as a Model for Rational Policy Making Download 172.4 KB 23 pages
Provinces pursue deregulation of tuition fees, further limit access to higher education: Report
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA–Differing provincial priorities reinforce imbalance in access to quality, publicly accountable higher education, according to an annual report released by…
Missing Pieces III
An Alternative Guide to Canadian Post-secondary Education Download 189.03 KB 150 pages For the third year in a row, Missing Pieces: An Alternative Guide to…
Different lifestyles, different worries
CCPA analysis looks at the assets and debts of British Columbians CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) British Columbians have strikingly different lifestyles…
Upstairs, Downstairs and in Between
The Assets and Debts of British Columbians Download 74.08 KB
CCPA says pay equity report acknowledges need for government action
(Vancouver) The BC Task Force on Pay Equity’s report to the BC government, tabled in the legislature yesterday, repeats what researchers and women’s groups have…
FastFacts: What’s Irresponsible?
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Leaked health ministry document shows cost transfer to sick, elderly
When the provincial government announced the sweeping income tax cuts last June, it promised British Columbians more money in our pockets. It sounded good on…
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