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A eulogy for carbon pricing–and what comes next
Canada’s bold experiment with carbon pricing is over, pulled by new Prime Minister Mark Carney to remove a controversial wedge issue before the coming federal…
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Mark Carney’s Values: What his 2021 book reveals about the leader he might be
It’s fair to say that Mark Carney’s 2021 book, Values: Building a Better World for All, was his early application to be prime minister. Values…
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BC budget boosts deficit and capital spending in response to Trump tariffs—and that’s a good thing
British Columbia’s 2025 provincial budget arrived just over four months after the October 2024 BC election but in the interim the world has changed. The…
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Those big GDP numbers about interprovincial trade barriers are wrong
A lot of public discourse in Canada right now is about how we need to urgently remove interprovincial trade barriers in the face of the…
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Can BC maintain its climate policies in the face of Trump’s tariff threats?
Even though they’re currently on pause, the threat of Trump tariffs has sent shockwaves through the Canadian economy. British Columbia’s exports to the United States,…
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A dozen radical responses to Trump’s economic warfare that go beyond Canadian counter-tariffs
The belief that economic integration with the United States—epitomized by the 1989 Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement and finally…
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Poilievre’s economic populism masks the same old failed conservative policies
With the resignation of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Canadian politics is headed for a shake-up, with observers anticipating a federal election shortly after the Liberals…
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The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion was an expensive mistake
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Capital gains tax increase is a step towards a fairer tax system in Canada
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Building Equity
No topic has dominated the headlines in recent years more than housing or the growing lack of affordable options in Metro Vancouver and other cities…
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Canada’s shift to a more regressive tax system, 2004 to 2022
The SPSD is a non-confidential, statistically representative database of individuals in their family context, with enough information on each individual to compute taxes paid to…
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Connecting BC
After years of neglect and privatization, today’s transit system in BC is plagued with overcrowding, delays and big gaps in service. The good news is…
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