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Vancouver Island Highway brings changing face of labour to construction

No one is surprised, these days, to encounter a female doctor, lawyer or accountant. Erasing occupational barriers for women was one of the aims of the feminist revolution of the 1970s and '80s, and in many ways it succeeded. But why is it still easier for a woman to be a lawyer than a carpenter? A university professor than an electrician? A doctor than a crane operator?

The Road to Equity

Training Women and First Nations on the Vancouver Island Highway - A Model for Large-Scale Construction Projects

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Environmental tax shifting cannot replace regulation

New CCPA report offers a framework for evaluating environmental taxes and cautions against using tax shifting as a panacea

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Projects & Initiatives: Resource Economics Project (BC)

Shifting Ground

A CCPA-BC Policy Brief on the Potential and Limitations of Environmental Tax Shifting

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Projects & Initiatives: Resource Economics Project (BC)
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Society's most vulnerable denied needed care

Groundbreaking new study exposes the impact of federal and BC cuts to community-based health care

Without Foundation

How Medicare is Undermined by Gaps and Privatization in Community and Continuing Care

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