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Debt By 1,000 Tax Cuts
Stephen Harper knows he can’t come right out and reveal his radical agenda to downsize government. But if he gets his majority, expect Harper to…
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Temporary Foreign Workers and the Election: A Major Issue Getting Scant Debate
An election should be a time to discuss key policy directions. One of the biggest policy transformations in the Harper era has been the enormous…
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Harper Strategists Working From US Republicans’ Playbook
As someone who studies political communication, I am struck by the success, if not the ethics, of the Harper Conservatives’ political marketing strategies. Branding and…
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Canada’s Caribbean Tax Holiday
There has quite rightly been a lot of discussion about corporate taxes during this election campaign, but very little discussion about cracking down on tax avoidance,…
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Fast Facts: And now for some un-conventional wisdom…
All the responses to the 2011/12 provincial budget in the April 13 Winnipeg Free Press speak with one voice that is critical of this year’s…
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Economists and Corporate Tax Cuts
The Prime Minister continues to use the line that all credible economists support further cuts to the corporate tax rate. Jim Stanford’s fabulous piece put…
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The Consequences of Austerity
With the federal Tories vowing to enact billions in spending cuts in a bid to eliminate the deficit a year earlier than forecast, it might be a…
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From The Missing Issues File: Climate Change
About the authorSeth KleinSeth Klein was a CCPA-BC research associate and the former CCPA-BC Director.
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Who Benefits From Low Voter Turnout?
Vaughan By-election 2008 Turnout 32.5% 52% Conservative 19,290 19,390 Liberal 18,326 27,773 NDP 661 5,442 About the authorKerri-Anne Finn
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Can cooperatives humanize the economy?
Book Review of Humanizing the Economy: Cooperatives in the Age of Capital, by John Restakis, New Society Publishers, 2010. The economy is about business, right?…
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EI: How Soon They Forget!
Unemployment Rate and EI Beneficiaries As Percent of Unemployed December 2010 Unemployment Rate EI Beneficiaries as % of Unemployed Canada 7.7% 44.3% Montreal 8.5% 35.2%…
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News Flash: Corporate Tax Cuts Don’t Stimulate Investment
A new CCPA study examines historical data on business investment and cash flow from 1961 through 2010, and, using econometric techniques, finds no evidence that lower taxes…
