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Judy Graves on why welfare matters to everyone
https://vimeo.com/3670669 Judy Graves is a housing advocate with the City of Vancouver in BC, Canada. Judy talks about why welfare (or social assistance) is so…
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Ontario delivers a ‘hit and miss’ budget
Ontario’s 2009-10 budget is a substantial, complex budget. In some places the budget was bold, in some places it merely did what it had to…
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New report questions economic benefits of cruise industry for the Maritimes
Halifax, NS The Maritimes experienced an 1800 percent increase in cruise passenger numbers between 1990 and 2008. However, the author of a new Canadian Centre…
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Hit and Miss
Ontario’s 2009-10 Budget Download 188.43 KB3 pages About the authorHugh MackenzieEconomist Hugh Mackenzie is a Research Associate with the CCPA’s National Office. Follow Hugh on…
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Cruising Without a Bruising
Cruise Tourism and the Maritimes Download 1.27 MB 56 pages About the authorRoss A. Klein
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Erna Calingasan: The struggle to get by on low pay
Erna Calingasan talks about the struggle to get by working two low-wage jobs. Part of a video series by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives…
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Wood wasted at BC logging sites would fill a cross-country truck convoy — twice
Costs include thousands of potential jobs, sharply higher CO2 emissions: report CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) A new report on BC’s forest…
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Will the New Property Tax System Save Our Neighbourhood Schools?
Download 1.97 MB12 pages About the authorTricia Bakken
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Shortchanged
Tallying the Legacy of Waste in BC’s Logging Industry Download 824.07 KB4 pages Attachments Letter of Complaint to the BC Forest Practices Board Shortchanged: Data…
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BC leads country in rising EI claims
According to today’s Statscan release, unemployment insurance (EI) claims were up 47% in January 2009 compared to January 2008. This makes BC the leader in…
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Shortchanged
https://vimeo.com/3842584 A short video featuring CCPA resource policy analyst Ben Parfitt discussing findings showing that startling numbers of usable logs are being left to rot…
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Maher Arar
Fragile Rights: The erosion of our human rights and civil liberties in the name of national security On February 12, 2009, Maher Arar spoke at…
