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April 2006: Selling Off Our Country
Takeovers place key Canadian industries in foreign hands In the late 1960s and throughout the first half of the 1970s, Canadians became increasingly concerned about…
March 2006: The Big Business Bang Theory (III)
A Canada with Scandinavian-style equality is achievable Several e-mails have reached me from readers who agree with my “Big Business Bang Theory” and with my…
February 2006: The “Big Business Bang” Theory II
If unbridled capitalism is the problem, what’s the solution? If you agree with the case I’ve made that almost all our most pressing social, economic,…
Are income trusts a social programs cash-suck?
Will retirees have to eat cat food if the government messes with income trusts? The financial industry would have you think so. A well-choreographed barrage…
BC Commentary: A Review of Provincial Social and Economic Trends
Winter 2006, Volume 9, Number 1 Download 1.04 MB8 pages Inside this special edition on labour and employment: The Erosion of Employment Standards Who’s Up,…
Money for Nothing
The Vicq Committee’s Corporate Tax Cuts Download 225.76 KB 4 pages
December 2005: The “Big Business Bang” Theory
Social, economic, environmental ills all have the same cause After nearly 12 years of editing and writing articles for The CCPA Monitor—about 3,000 of them…
Liberal plan runs counter to productivity
Federal Finance Minister Ralph Goodale recently launched the Liberals’ election campaign with the release of a mini-budget and a refurbished policy platform. The “plan for…
Alberta’s oil wealth
Is there a constitutional fix? For years now, provincial governments have complained about a “fiscal imbalance” in reference to Ottawa’s ongoing surpluses while many provinces…
October 2005: The New Economic World Order (Part II: China)
Amazingly rapid economic growth has made China “world’s workshop” China’s economic ascent over the last two-and-a-half decades has been nothing short of astounding. It now…
What’s Behind High Gas Prices?
Can You Spell Gouge? Download 108.4 KB3 pages
High gas prices unjustified—report
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—The recent spike in gas prices constitutes nothing short of price-gouging on the part of the oil industry.…
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