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Bucking the National Trend
BC’s welfare cuts and poverty among lone mothers BC’s newspapers are full of banner headlines about record housing starts, construction booms and decades-low unemployment. “The…
The “fiscal imbalance” and bad ideas for federalism
Most Canadians, if asked, would probably view the issue of the “fiscal imbalance” as a good cure for insomnia. That’s too bad because it is…
FastFacts: Commuting by Bicycle in Winnipeg
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From Support to Isolation
The High Cost of BC’s Declining Home Support Services Download 397.23 KB56 pages Attachments Summary: From Support to Isolation: The High Cost of BC’s Declining…
Reduced access to home support leaving frail seniors isolated
Health system missing key preventive means to postpone and avoid more costly care READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Vancouver–Reduced access to publicly-funded home support means…
FastFacts: From Jackie Robinson to the Manitoba Baseball Hall of Fame
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June 2006: On Becoming An Octogenarian
Getting older doesn’t mean getting any less committed Two of my oldest friends died during the past year: Malcolm (“Mac”) Maclaren late last summer and…
June 2006: Health Canada Delay Endangers Women
Agency to regulate Human Reproduction Act still not set up March 29, 2006 was the second anniversary of the passage into law of Canada’s Assisted…
June 2006: It’s Broke and It Can’t Be Fixed
Renegotiating NAFTA won’t solve Canada’s trade problems Several prominent critics of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), including NDP leader Jack Layton, have proposed…
June 2006: It Took Them 400 Years to Find Us Again
Agribusiness firms wallow in profits, farmers in losses About six years ago, I met with a group of farmers in Gravelbourg, a mainly French community…
June 2006: Serving As the U.S. Military’s Spy in the Sky
Canada taking a key role in the militarization of space Few Canadians realize that their taxes have long been used to make this country a…
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