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Mind the growing gap
Inequality in the global economy The growing gap between the world’s haves and have-nots is one of the most pressing issues of our time. Recently, Prime Minister Chretien acknowledged the…
Alternative Federal Budget predicts big surpluses
Forecasting record far better than government’s READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA–The Alternative Federal Budget (AFB) project, coordinated by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, released its Economic and Fiscal…
The issue is not whether to ratify Kyoto, but how
Kyoto naysayers are predicting gloom and doom if the Chretien government goes through with ratification. They’re wrong. The question is not whether we should ratify Kyoto, it’s how. The challenge…
Was your tax cut worth it?
When the Liberals took power in BC, the first order of business was a massive tax cut. Promising to revitalize the economy by putting more money in consumers’ pockets, the…
Trade rules create barriers to high quality municipal services
At the just-finished annual meeting in Hamilton of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) delegates were undoubtedly talking about municipal strategies for water protection in the wake of the findings…
Evidence shows public-private partnerships not a solution, experts
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) A panel of experts from Britain, the U.S. and Canada on “public-private partnerships” (P3’s) say that British Columbia should think twice before…
Workers and environmentalists agree
Kyoto can be met without sacrificing jobs The national debate on ratifying the Kyoto Protocol on climate change has become embroiled in conflict over the accord’s alleged economic costs and…
Getting rid of the Reference Drug Program would be a costly mistake
New CCPA report says program saves Pharmacare millions and should be retained CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says a study it…
Leaked health ministry document shows cost transfer to sick, elderly
When the provincial government announced the sweeping income tax cuts last June, it promised British Columbians more money in our pockets. It sounded good on the surface, but ten months…
BC Budget more poison pill than tough medicine, says Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Budget shifts revenues from progressive income tax to regressive MSP and sales taxes Vancouver – “The government says it is giving us tough medicine for the economy, but this budget…
Cut the rhetoric, not health care
It is an old rule of persuasion: people are rarely receptive right away; you have to work at making them so. If you want to change someone’s mind about something,…
Public auto insurance the best system for BC
Almost 30 years into its mandate as British Columbia’s public auto insurer, ICBC has suddenly stopped singing its own praises. With clear signals from the new government that ICBC’s exclusive…
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