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Is Money Enough? The Meaning of 6% and Flaherty’s Health “Plan”
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Platform Costing and the Politics of Fiscal Policy in Ontario
Download 319.02 KB 15 pages Fiscal policy issues — issues related to the balance between government revenue and expenditure — have come to play a…
Graphs for Dummies
The Troubled Geometry of Tim Hudak’s “changebook” Download 431.22 KB15 pages This detailed statistical review of the 13 statistical graphs contained in the Conservative changebook…
Conservative platform’s geometry found faulty
TORONTO—A detailed statistical review of the 13 statistical graphs contained in the Conservative changebook platform document finds that not one of them conforms to the normal requirements of academic…
Poverty comes with a high price tag
It’s no secret that British Columbia has a problem with poverty. Many of us do our part and contribute to food drives and other worthy…
The Cost of Poverty in BC
Download 1.55 MB45 pages Help change the conversation about poverty: READ the report or summary SHARE the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd_nkCi-pVo TAKE ACTION http://www.bcpovertyreduction.ca Attachments The Cost…
What is poverty costing us in BC?
What is poverty costing us in BC? Help change the conversation about poverty: SHARE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd_nkCi-pVoLEARN http://www.policyalternatives.ca/costofpovertybcTAKE ACTION Look up your MLA using the MLA Finder at…
Federal budget set to unleash significant program spending cuts: CCPA
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—Monday’s federal budget is expected to unleash one of the biggest assaults on the public sector in Canada’s…
An Ugently Needed Change in Monetary Policy
Borrowing from Bank of Canada would make governments debt-free Through the publicly-owned Bank of Canada, which was established in 1935, the federal government can borrow…
Budget 2011 Redux
What’s New in Version 2 Download 223.18 KB 6 pages Despite the government’s stay-the-course rhetoric, the upcoming federal budget will lay the foundation for the…
Fast Facts: An alternative approach to dealing with the infrastructure deficit
In the Friday April 8th Winnipeg Free Press, Jim Carr, President and CEO of the Business Council of Manitoba, proposed a new plan for dealing…
Fairness, Funding and Our Collective Future
A way forward for post-secondary education in Nova Scotia Download 593.57 KB 38 pages
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