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CC – Loop – 4 Col Blog Index

July 11, 2023

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  • Climate Change
    Policy Note
    The Economy

    Electricity Policy in BC: “Buy High – Sell Low”

    It was only a one-liner in the budget — the government plans to spend $10 million to advance the $400 million Northwest transmission line project…

    February 20, 2009
  • Policy Note
    Provincial Budgets

    Accounting games of Olympic proportion

    The long awaited 2010 security budget was finally unveiled today. The latest estimate pegs the cost of securing the Olympics at $900 million or just…

    February 20, 2009
  • Policy Note
    Provincial Budgets

    Numerically Challenged

    The BC budget just doesn’t add up once you look at some of the details. Since the 2009 economy is shrinking, how can revenues from…

    February 20, 2009
  • Policy Note
    Provincial Budgets
    The Economy

    Government wage freeze damages economy

    One more sign as to how out of touch the February 17 BC Budget is with the rest of the world. The BC Budget includes…

    February 20, 2009
  • Health Care
    Policy Note

    The Budget: A Determinant of Health

    I know this budget is supposed to be good news for health, but I want to argue here that the exact opposite is true. We’ve…

    February 20, 2009
  • Environment & Sustainability
    Policy Note

    Time to take the axe to province’s dubious forest-related budget projections

    Two words sprang to mind this week when perusing the provincial government’s latest revenue projections from BC’s once healthy, wealth-producing forests – confusing and misleading.…

    February 20, 2009
  • Corporations & Corporate Power
    Environment & Sustainability
    Reports
    Tax Policy

    Fast Facts: Cap-and-Trade Will Help Keep Our Forests Green and Growing

    Download 488.54 KB 2 pages

    February 19, 2009
  • Climate Change
    Environment & Sustainability
    Policy Note
    Provincial Budgets
    Tax Policy

    Happy Birthday, Carbon Tax!

    A year ago, in the 2008 BC Budget, a new tax was born. There was a hush over the House as its mother, the Finance…

    February 18, 2009
  • Children & Youth
    Employment & Labour
    Income/wages
    Policy Note
    Provincial Budgets

    Why do BC kids need Finance Minister’s charitable donation to buy them shoes?

    Minister Hansen donated money for shoes for poor children. Then he delivered a budget that doesn’t help parents who receive income assistance or who are…

    February 18, 2009
  • Housing & Homelessness
    Income/wages
    Policy Note
    Provincial Budgets

    Talk of addressing homelessness in Throne Speech remains just that

    Yesterday’s Throne Speech got me excited with its promise of finally addressing homelessness in BC. Like everyone else, I expected the economy to be the…

    February 18, 2009
  • Policy Note
    Provincial Budgets
    The Economy

    BC Budget 2009: Vanilla, No Sprinkles (revised)

    Faced with a nasty recession at its doorstep, the BC budget is uninspiring and underwhelming in its ambition. Overall there is little that actively plans…

    February 18, 2009
  • Economic Indicators
    Health Care
    Human Rights
    Income Inequality
    International
    Reports

    A Movement of Ideas

    The World Social Forum, is it a model for political change? Download 561.78 KB 19 pages

    February 18, 2009
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  1. Electricity Policy in BC: “Buy High – Sell Low”
  2. Accounting games of Olympic proportion
  3. Numerically Challenged
  4. Government wage freeze damages economy
  5. The Budget: A Determinant of Health
  6. Time to take the axe to province’s dubious forest-related budget projections
  7. Fast Facts: Cap-and-Trade Will Help Keep Our Forests Green and Growing
  8. Happy Birthday, Carbon Tax!
  9. Why do BC kids need Finance Minister’s charitable donation to buy them shoes?
  10. Talk of addressing homelessness in Throne Speech remains just that
  11. BC Budget 2009: Vanilla, No Sprinkles (revised)
  12. A Movement of Ideas

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    News & Commentary
    Unemployment & Underemployment

    Youth unemployment is approaching a boiling point in Ontario

    Canada is confronting a deepening youth employment emergency that policy-makers and political debates have largely overlooked, as a recent CCPA analysis highlighted. 

    June 17, 2025
  • Illustration: Gina Gill
    News & Commentary
    Regulation/Deregulation
    Trade

    Federal “one Canadian economy” legislation is a power grab 

    On June 6, Prime Minister Mark Carney tabled his much-anticipated “one Canadian economy” legislation that purports to help the government build nation-making projects and tear…

    June 11, 2025
  • News & Commentary
    Unemployment & Underemployment
    June 17, 2025

    Youth unemployment is approaching a boiling point in Ontario

  • News & Commentary
    Regulation/Deregulation
    Trade
    June 11, 2025

    Federal “one Canadian economy” legislation is a power grab 

  • Climate Change
    Environment & Sustainability
    News & Commentary
    June 10, 2025

    To fight wildfires and heat waves, Manitoba needs a climate plan

  • Democracy & Electoral Rights
    Neoliberalism
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    June 10, 2025

    Before the far right threatened democracy, neoliberalism stripped it down

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