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BC forest industry needs to do more with its wood
In the last two weeks, three news stories on BC’s forest industry told a pretty compelling story about the state of the industry and its…
Lessons to learn from BC’s resource crisis
It has been said that those who do not know their history are doomed to repeat it. After the crisis in BC’s resource sectors during…
In the corporate interest
The YNN experience in Canadian schools CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT The presence of the Youth News Network (YNN) has disrupted the school…
Beware the tax cut siren song
It’s finally summer, and heat waves have replaced “tax rage”–for the time being anyway. The campaign for lower taxes and smaller government is sure to…
Are tax cuts a free lunch?
The oft-repeated message that tax cuts will not decrease government revenues has a definite appeal. It says that not only can you have tax cuts,…
Federal budget surplus should benefit all Canadians
Centre calls for social reinvestment and fair tax reform (Vancouver) The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives–BC Office (CCPA-BC) is calling on Finance Minister Paul Martin…
Why Kosovo?
Anatomy of a needless war READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Nato leaders have hailed their war against Yugoslavia as a moral crusade in which they…
Education is a high yield investment
In these days of bloated stock prices and low bond yields, it can be tough to find a good investment. Speculating on the wild ups…
Preventing future Gold Rivers requires thinking outside the box
When the workers at the ill-fated Gold River pulp mill took their severance packages last week, it marked closure on a frustrating struggle to save…
Paid in full
Who pays for university education in BC? Who pays for BC’s universities? The usual answer is the taxpayer since tuition fees amount to only one…
What’s wrong with traditional schools?
For some, things just seemed better in previous times. Teachers stood in front of the class and taught. Students sat in rows and were polite…
Out of the locker room: violence against women is not your circus
In the time it took the moderators the US presidential debate to shut down the last microphone, just over three hundred girls were born to…
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