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BC Commentary: A Review of Provincial Social and Economic Trends
Spring/Summer 2005, Volume 8, Number 2 Download 448.21 KB8 pages Inside this issue: BC Budget 2005: A Missed Opportunity Who Benefits? Revisiting BC’s Income Tax…
Challenging McWorld
Second Edition Download 543.81 KB 206 pages Today’s youth live, communicate and act in a wired world of corporate logos, symbols and branding. “McWorld” is…
New CCPA study charges Health Canada with abandoning its duty to protect Canadians’ health and safety
OTTAWA—If Health Canada’s proposed “modernization” of the Food & Drugs Act is adopted, the Department’s already inadequate protection of Canadians’ health and safety will be…
Ill-Health Canada
Putting Food and Drug Company Profits Ahead of Safety Canada’s political and industry élites have made their choice: corporate profits are to trump the protection…
Budget 2005 a missed opportunity
You do not have to scratch too far below the surface of BC Budget 2005 before it looks an awful lot like an election platform.…
BC Commentary: A Review of Provincial Social and Economic Trends
Winter 2005, Volume 8, Number 1 Download 555.68 KB8 pages Inside this issue: Women’s Employment in BC: Effects of Government Downsizing and Policy Changes Rolling…
State of the Manitoba Economy Report 2004
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Tax cuts and fiscal retrenchment wrong roads to follow
Economic outlook calls for more government investment in Manitoba economy CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT Winnipeg— The Manitoba economy performed relatively well in…
BC’s surplus of irony
The Ministry of Finance’s second quarter update on the 2004/05 BC Budget deserves to be put in a museum as a wonderful example of the…
Seven-day shopping won’t cure what ails us
Nova Scotians are having a plebiscite on Sunday shopping and debate on the issue is in full swing. The proponents of Sunday shopping have portrayed…
October 2004: Exposing and Opposing Corporate Power
Regardless of the outcome, the cause itself is worth the struggle My first brush with corporate power happened a long time ago, when I was…
October 2004: “Tax Me If You Can!”
Tax havens, loopholes let corporations pay little or no taxes Last April, the General Accounting Office (GOA)—a kind of business inspectorate that works for the…
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