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Hidden agenda behind the attack on the CPP
Study CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—Critics of Canada’s public pension system are engaging in scare tactics, a prominent pension expert charges. In…
Des intentions cachées derrière la pression pour se débarrasser du Régime de Pensions du Canada, révèle une étude
CLIQUEZ ICI POUR CONSULTER LE RAPPORT Ottawa — Les critiques du régime de retraite universel du Canada veulent nous faire peur. Voilà les accusations lancées…
What do you want the internet to be?
There’s a new Force in town, but it won’t be playing on screens of your local cinema. Instead, it is developing strategies to bring your…
What happened to the national home care program?
In 1997, after wide consultation across the country, the federal government’s National Forum on Health concluded that home care should be considered an integral part…
The crumbling foundation of Medicare in BC
British Columbians are fed a stream of bad news about our public health care system. But there is one very common health story we rarely…
Environmental tax shifting cannot replace regulation
The BC government released a discussion paper a few months ago on a relatively new policy tool: environmental tax shifting. The paper was intended to…
Government action is needed to achieve women’s equality
On October 15, women, children and men will take to the streets in more than 140 countries in the World March of Women. Marchers will…
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,…
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