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The HST and BC family budgets
That the HST will take a bite out of family budgets is clear to everyone. The main question right now is just how big of…
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Un-equal access to opportunity between suburban and inner-city youth
Three weeks ago, a 19-year-old from Winnipeg’s inner city shot two teenagers. Our city government’s response was to send in more police officers. But incarceration…
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Contagion and Collateral Damage
The Aftershocks of Global Financial Crisis Just when the world economy appeared to be settling down, Greece — that cradle of civilization, the birthplace of…
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Faux News North?
It now seems a certainty that we will soon have our very own “Fox News North” cable channel as Quebecor is poised to launch “SUN…
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Clean Energy Act will cost billions for BC
While the HST has captured all the attention, the province’s passage of the Clean Energy Act in the recent legislative session is a far more…
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If the Taxpayers Federation gets its way, we can be just like California
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation’s Maureen Bader is inciting a tax revolt for municipal taxpayers. If she gets her way, maybe we can be just like…
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Message to Britain: Don’t Follow Our Lead on Austerity
In his column today in The Guardian, Will Hutton is the latest pundit to suggest Canada’s example from the mid 1990s is the right way to…
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Canada’s Poverty Hole
New income data suggests troubling poverty trends are unfolding in Canada Every recession ushers in a rising tide of poverty. As jobless and underemployed people…
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New BC generic drug plan could save millions – but maybe not for everybody
Very, very quietly, the BC provincial government is negotiating new arrangements for the purchase of generic drugs that could save the province hundreds of millions…
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A new era for measuring poverty in Canada
Last Thursday’s Statistics Canada release of individual and household income data for 2008 marks a new era in the study of poverty in Canada. Instead…
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Medicare Sustainability: Facts & Myths
Canadians are being told that public health care financing is not sustainable, and that the solution is a shift to more private health insurance and…
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Fast Facts: Child welfare devolution in Manitoba
A bumpy but necessary road to justice For the past ten years Manitoba has been mapping unchartered territory in an effort to transform a child…
