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Fast Facts: The case for a national strategy on low income energy and water efficiency
The vast majority of Canada’s low-income families live in older houses, with inadequate insulation in attics, walls and basements. While these houses may offer cheaper-than-average…
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Public or private – how the choice for P3s gets made
Did you ever wonder how Partnerships BC justifies using 35 year contracts for public private partnerships rather than borrowing the money publicly and doing things…
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Buy American sell-out
Proposed procurement deal bad for provincial, local governments Despite the Conservative government’s hopes for a quick deal, prospects for an exemption from the Buy American…
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Une entente pourrait céder les marchés publics canadiens en laissant en place les lois sur l’achat américain, selon une étude
CLIQUEZ ICI POUR CONSULTER LE RAPPORT OTTAWA – Des négociations en cours entre Ottawa et Washington au sujet des lois sur l’achat américain pourraient céder…
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Deal could surrender Canadian procurement, while leaving Buy American laws in place: study
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—Ongoing negotiations between Ottawa and Washington over Buy American laws may give away provincial and municipal procurement sovereignty,…
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Buy American Sell-out
Giving Away Canadian Procurement Sovereignty Download 143.38 KB 9 pages About the authorScott Sinclair
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Acheter américain
Une trahison qui équivaut à céder la souveraineté canadienne en matière d’approvisionnement Download 162.49 KB11 pages About the authorScott Sinclair
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The coming austerity
With the Financial Times lamenting the “end of the era of liberalization” and the “death of global free-market capitalism” and Newsweek declaring “we are all…
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Canada’s growing gap explained
The income gap between the rich and the rest keeps growing, in good times and in bad. Learn more about it in this video. Canada’s…
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On minimum wages and talk radio
Today marks the third time in the past four months that I get booted off a pre-arranged radio interview on minimum wages in BC. What…
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2010 and all that
It is a basic principle in economics that estimates of employment and GDP impacts in themselves tell us nothing about the benefits and costs of…
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Ontario’s school funding is falling behind: study
TORONTO–Ontario’s per student school funding places the province far behind most peer jurisdictions in North America, according to a comprehensive study released today by the…
