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The IPP Lobby’s Top Ten
The Vancouver Sun’s Gordon Hamilton reports that the IPP lobby, BC Citizens for Green Energy, has released a Letterman-like top ten reasons for the development of…
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Canada’s best-paid CEOs ‘recession-proof’: Study
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. TORONTO – Canada’s best-paid 100 CEOs breezed through the worst of the recession with earnings 155 times higher than the…
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Recession-Proof
Canada’s 100 best paid CEOs Download 624.42 KB17 pages About the authorHugh MackenzieEconomist Hugh Mackenzie is a Research Associate with the CCPA’s National Office. Follow…
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2011 predictions
As we round out another decade, thoughts turn to the future. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ Hugh Mackenzie, Shauna Mackinnon, Bruce Campbell, Trish Hennessy,…
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Olympics – ‘Rousing Financial Success’?
Though not a true believer myself, I can think of a number of positive impacts from the 2010 Olympics. There was, without question, a community…
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Missing the Vote: Democratic Reform in BC
I’ve long thought that we should lower the voting age to 16, so thanks to Mike deJong for raising it in the BC Liberal leadership…
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UNICEF shames Canada for inequality among children
In an earlier blog Shannon Daub reported on Mark Milke’s assertion that inequality was a lot of humbug. UNICEF has published a report that shows…
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Mortgage financing reform needed to avoid another crisis: report
OTTAWA—In a report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), two prominent economists propose changes to U.S. and Canadian mortgage finance polices…
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What Can Be Learned from the Financial Crisis in the U.S. and the Much Milder Crisis in Canada?
Download 166.67 KB 7 pages About the authorsDoug PetersArthur Donner
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How fossils fuel campaigns
Kevin Falcon’s tour of northeast BC, heart of the province’s oil and gas industry, and his dissin’ of BC’s (modest but important) climate measures was…
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Opportunity will solve poverty, we can all get stinking rich if we work hard enough, and my pet unicorn is real
Mark Milke argues in today’s Vancouver Sun that massive and growing inequality is not a serious problem. In his mind, anyone concerned about the growing…
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The Halifax Convention Centre – a bottomless money pit?
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT HALIFAX, NS – The proposed new convention centre has the potential to be a bottomless money pit, cautions…
