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Alternative Federal Budget delivers real social reinvestment
AFB balanced, needs-driven READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA–The majority of Canadians who want the federal government to abandon its narrow focus on tax cuts…
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Federal Liberals break their 50:50 budget-sharing promise
CCPA analysis CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA–Prime Minister Jean Chretien, during both the 1997 and 2000 federal election campaigns, promised that future…
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BC Ferries restructuring will increase costs and reduce accountability
The provincial government has just announced a major transformation of ferry services, promising better service, better access to capital for needed improvements, all without any…
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Transcript of an interview with Armine Yalnizyan on Sunday Edition
ROY ROMANOW (Commissioner, The Future of Health Care): As you know it was just a year and a half ago that the Prime Minister established…
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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,…
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BC exports raw logs, jobs and revenue
More raw logs–along with jobs and revenue–will be shipped out of BC over the next three years. That’s because the BC government, in February of…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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