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BC Commentary: A Review of Provincial Social and Economic Trends
Spring 2014, Volume 17, Number 2 Download 1.62 MB8 pages Inside this issue: BC Jobs Plan reality check: The first two years by Iglika Ivanova Legal…
Hennessy’s Index: February 2014
Perks for the Rich: Income splitting Hennessy’s Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy, about Canada and its place…
Le fractionnement du revenu favorise les mieux nantis, selon une étude
Ottawa – Quatre-vingt-six pourcent (86%) des familles Canadiennes ne bénéficieront en rien du fractionnement du revenu que le gouvernement fédéral entend mettre en place selon…
Income splitting is a tax gift to Canada’s rich: study
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—Eighty-six percent of Canadian families would gain no benefit from the proposed Conservative income splitting plan, says a…
Income Splitting in Canada
Inequality by Design Download 613.43 KB26 pages This study examines the cost and the distributional impact of three income splitting scenarios: pension income splitting; income…
BC Commentary: A Review of Provincial Social and Economic Trends
Winter 2014, Volume 17, Number 1 Download 899.02 KB8 pages Inside this issue: The Ombudsperson’s Report on Seniors Care: A Brief Analysis of the Government’s…
Canada and Access to Medicines in Developing Countries
Intellectual Property Rights First Download 534.1 KB 24 pages Canadian reports have recommended that health as a human right must be Canada’s overarching global commitment…
Upstream thinking, healthy society and reviving Canadian democracy
Social factors play a significant role in determining whether we will be healthy or ill. Our health care is but one element of what makes…
The Ombudsperson’s Report on Seniors Care
A Brief Analysis of the Government’s (Non)Response
BC government’s non-response on seniors care
In 2012, the BC Ombudsperson made 140 recommendations to the Ministry of Health to improve seniors care by fixing BC’s home and community health care…
Only 6% of BC Ombudsperson’s recommendations for addressing crisis in seniors care implemented by provincial government: report
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) A year and a half after the release of an exhaustive and damning report on the state…
CETA and Pharmaceuticals
Impact of the trade agreement between Europe and Canada on the costs of patented drugs Download 148.17 KB 7 pages This study finds that the Comprehensive…
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