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Teeny Budget factoid
It appears when it comes to the heavy lifting of cutting spending in BC, not all public agencies are equal. The February Budget documents stated…
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Study shows growing gap between the richest and poorest families: 2003-2006
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT Regina — For the past thirty years, the richest in the province have secured the lion’s share of…
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Boom and Bust
The Growing Income Gap in Saskatchewan Download 4.56 MB59 pages This report finds that the gap between the richest and poorest families in Saskatchewan has…
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Fact Sheets on Women’s Poverty
Women’s Poverty and the Recession This series of fact sheets is based on the report Women’s Poverty and the Recession by Monica Townson (September 2009), and…
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Take Two: BC Budget 2009 September Update (Notes from Marc and Iglika)
The September BC Budget is a new look at a budget most have come to see as a fake. February’s budget was not passed through…
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Recession sidelines policies to address women’s poverty: Study
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA—Canada still has shockingly high rates of women’s poverty but the recession seems to have sidelined anti-poverty policies, says a…
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Women’s Poverty and the Recession
Download 662.41 KB54 pages This report by researcher Monica Townson draws attention to Canada’s shockingly high rates of women’s poverty and offers a strong critique…
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Oh, Oh, Canada
We’d be prouder if our country lived up to its potential Canadians generally are not as wildly and uncritically patriotic as Americans. We are not…
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The Latin American Revolution (III)
The U.S. Empire strikes back through a coup in Honduras At 1 a.m. on June 28, Manuel Zelaya, the elected progressive President of Honduras, was…
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Canada’s Shredded Social Saftey Net
Our employment insurance system far below OECD average Between October 2008 and May 2009, 363,000 Canadians were thrown out of work – and the OECD…
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Afghanistan and the New Great Energy Game
Planned pipeline route keeps U.S., NATO in poor, remote land Why is Afghanistan so important? A glance at a map and a little knowledge of…
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BC’s minimum wage the lowest in Canada
Tomorrow, September 1, officially marks the day that BC will become the province with the lowest minimum wage in the entire country ($8 per hour).…
