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BC Commentary: A Review of Provincial Social and Economic Trends

Fall 2012, Volume 15, Number 3

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Inside this issue:

  • Better seniors care a solution to overcrowded hospitals and surgery wait times by Marcy Cohen
  • Subsidizing dirty industries with expensive clean electricity is a recipe for major rate hikes by John Calvert and Marc Lee
  • Clean electricity and climate justice update by John Calvert and Marc Lee
  • Liquefied natural gas projects make no sense by Ben Parfitt
  • New BC welfare rules: Some positive steps forward (and a couple steps back) by Seth Klein
  • The case for exempting child support from welfare by Kendra Milne
  • Metro Vancouver living wage in 2012: $19.14/hour by Iglika Ivanova and Seth Klein

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