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Nova Scotians subsidizing minimum wage employers: report
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT HALIFAX: Nova Scotia has not had a real minimum wage increase in more than 20 years, according to…
FastFacts: Contracting-Out Garbage Pick-Up
A Trashy Idea Download 30.01 KB 2 pages
Scandal, politics and democracy
At one level the current parliamentary furor is partisan politics at its worst. Stephen Harper is taking advantage of the scandal to boost the fortunes…
‘A Very Hostile System in Which to Live’
Aboriginal Electoral Participation in Winnipeg’s Inner City Download 1.07 MB42 pages
State Policies to Enhance the New Economy
A Comparative Analysis Download 288.01 KB31 pages
Praying for Rain: The McGuinty Strategy for Fiscal Recovery
Ontario Alternative Budget Technical Paper #3 Download 149.06 KB 2 pages
Can We Afford It?
The Case for the New 2005 Federal Budget Download 561.27 KB 6 pages
Revised federal budget is affordable and should be passed: economists
While not perfect, revised budget is “substantial improvement” over previous budgets READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA – The revised federal budget is affordable and…
Budget Outlook 2005: Avoiding the Obvious
Ontario Alternative Budget Technical Paper #2 Download 147.31 KB 4 pages
Liberals refuse to confront the real cause of Ontario’s fiscal problems
TORONTO—“It’s not often that a government facing fiscal problems leads into its budget by declaring proudly that it intends to ignore the fundamental cause of…
What goes up must come down: Budget cuts make BC communities more economically vulnerable
BC’s economy is a lot like a rollercoaster ride. Commodity prices for our resource exports (like energy, forest and mining products) go up and down…
BC’s Regional Divide
How Tax and Spending Policies Affect BC Communities Download 460.04 KB 60 pages This study builds on analysis originally published in Bleeding the Hinterland: A…
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