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Canada’s Commitment to Equality
A Gender Analysis of the Last Ten Federal Budgets (1995 – 2004) Download here.
BC Solutions Budget 2005
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Surplus should be reinvested in people and communities
CCPA outlines budget choices in 2005 BC Solutions Budget CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says the…
New opportunities for Nova Scotia
The provincial government finds itself facing a better financial position than it has in more than a decade. The Auditor General has pegged the forecast…
More Than Meets the Eye: 2005-6 Pre-Budget Review
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Sorbara has more flexibility than he’s letting on, Ontario Alternative Budget study says
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT TORONTO—Ontario Finance Minister Greg Sorbara has a lot more flexibility in his upcoming budget than he’s letting on.…
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…
December 2004: Good Debt, Bad Debt
Alberta is not “debt-free” when foreigners own its resources When the Premier of Alberta announced a few months ago that his province was now “debt-free,”…
Invest surplus in program enhancement, not costly tax cut agenda–report
OTTAWA–Despite recently well-publicized spending commitments, the federal government will post surpluses totaling $24.1 billion over the next three years, according to the Alternative Federal Budget’s…
Eroding Equalization
The issue of equalization has raised its barely comprehensible head once more. But just because it is complicated doesn’t mean it’s not important. So here…
Liberals employing a piggy-bank debt strategy
Another lowball from the federal government. Instead of a $1.9 billion surplus as forecast last year, the Liberal finance minister this week announced that the…
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