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The Latin American Revolution (II)
El Salvador the latest Latin American country to turn left Joining the revolutionary wave sweeping Latin America, the people of El Salvador in March elected…
Taxation and Poverty
Injustice built into our tax system hurts poor the most U.S. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once famously declared: “I don’t mind paying taxes. They buy…
Response to the Recession
Rescue the economy, protect people, and plan for the future Many items in the Canadian federal government’s economic stimulus package depend on how individual decisions…
Government pressure to cut wages will increase the risk of deflation
It is now abundantly clear that Canada and the world is facing its worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. However, a sense of premature…
BC Commentary: A Review of Provincial Social and Economic Trends
Spring 2009, Volume 12, Number 2: Focus on STV Download 644.35 KB12 pages Inside this pre-election special edition: BC’s Growing Gap Vanilla, No Sprinkles: A…
Too Little Too Late
Federal Stimulus Budget Eclipsed by Job Loss Download 352.27 KB6 pages
Harper should take his own advice on stimulus spending: study
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—Prime Minister Stephen Harper should take some of his own advice and increase his government’s economic stimulus plan,…
Harper devrait suivre son propre conseil sur la stimulation par les dépenses, selon une étude
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA – Le premier ministre Stephen Harper devrait suivre certains de ses propres conseils et augmenter le plan…
Double-digit Unemployment Looming
The rapid descent of the global economy into what even the International Monetary Fund has begun to call a Depression will see very rapidly rising…
A Tale of Two Crises
Climate crisis far more threatening than economic crisis Most of us have become preoccupied with the deepening economic slump that has spread like a pandemic…
Canadian vulnerability in the face of the global economic crisis
As Prime Minister Stephen Harper heads to London for the G-20 leaders’ meeting on the global economic crisis, he will undoubtedly tell other leaders that…
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