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Softwood Lumber Agreement spells trouble for jobs in BC’s forest-dependent communities
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) The new Canada-US Softwood Lumber Agreement, if it is ratified by the Canadian Parliament, spells bad news…
Softwood Sellout
How BC Bowed to the US and Got Saddled with the Softwood Lumber Agreement Download 741.06 KB12 pages
Social Watch 2006: Fighting Mad
Canada’s new focus on the world Download 127.92 KB3 pages Canada is in the enviable position of having posted a budget surplus for nine consecutive…
Research for Communities #4
Government Supports for Private Sector New Econoomy Ventures Should Be Available to Community Enterprises Download 546.57 KB4 pages
Research for Communities #3
Community Economic Development and Provincial Government Policy Download 487.45 KB4 pages
October 2006: The New Economic World Order (Part III: India)
India rapidly re-emerging as a global economic power The Asian century has arrived. Just as China is now the world’s manufacturing center, India is fast…
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Workers suffer continent-wide under NAFTA
Three-country study details effects on economies, labour markets CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT Twelve years under the rules of the North American Free…
Why are Nova Scotians still discussing Sunday shopping?
Nova Scotians thought they had put the issue to rest in the plebiscite less than two years ago. Yet here we are with Sunday shopping…
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…
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,…
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,…
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