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Cutting our way into a recession
BC’s economy has been hit hard in recent months by numerous events outside the province’s borders: the US trade actions on softwood lumber; a global…
Tax cut experiment must be called off, CCPA tells BC’s Finance Committee
Much of the economic boost of BC’s tax cuts going to Ontario CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) New analysis by the Canadian…
Rethinking the Tax Cut Experiment
BC Budget 2002 Submission to the BC Legislature’s Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services Download 161.59 KB11 pages
What Paul Martin should do
Paul Martin and his Liberal colleagues are handicapped by their anti-deficit phobia in dealing with the current economic downturn. A surplus come-hell-or-high-water approach makes sense…
After September 11th
In the wake of the horrific Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington, and the killing of more than 7,000 people, the subsequent “war…
Cutting Pharmacare won’t cut health costs
Having painted itself into a fiscal corner through “dramatic” tax cuts, the BC government is now claiming it cannot afford Pharmacare (the province’s public drug…
Global village or global apartheid?
The world after September 11, 2001 For over 15 years I have studied and traveled extensively to Peru, a country besieged by terrorism. When the…
Restructuring government in BC
Are we asking the right questions? The new BC government is clearly dedicated to so-called “smaller government”. On one major front, the premier has appointed…
October 2001: The Western Heart of Darkness
Mineral-rich Congo ravaged by genocide and Western plunder “I’m interested in land not [black people].” — Cecil Rhodes Rarely has Western savagery been more destructive…
Our Schools/Our Selves: Fall 2001
DIRT(1) Cheap: Students for sale and the tilting of a scale Abstract This paper illustrates how parents, teachers and school administrators have been quietly and…
BC Commentary: A Review of Provincial Social and Economic Trends
Fall 2001, Volume 4, Number 4 Download 138.78 KB4 pages Inside this issue: Restructuring Government in BC: Are we asking the right questions? Cutting Pharmacare…
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