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Federal Budget 2009
CCPA Analysis Download 141.98 KB5 pages About the authorCanadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
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Forensic auditors say P3s expensive, biased and secret
So who are you going to believe about public private partnerships (P3s)? One side of the debate says they’re swell. They save money for taxpayers,…
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Fast Facts: Waste-Water and Water Privatization
A Clear and Present Danger Download 492.38 KB 2 pages About the authorLynne Fernandez
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Why Budget 2009 Leaves Canadians in the Cold
For Stephen Harper, the only thing that matters about the 2009 budget is that it meets the political imperatives he imposed on himself with his…
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Federal budget leaves unemployed in the cold
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA — Today’s federal budget leaves hundreds of thousands of vulnerable Canadians hanging on a very short rope…
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Poverty reduction plan: can we afford it?
Perhaps the more appropriate question is: can we afford not to have one? Public policy is always about choices, and there is no excuse for…
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Burning down the house
Sometimes I see a letter to the editor that in one sentence captures the essence of what I was thinking but does it better and…
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Obama opens doors closed in BC
One of President Barack Obama’s first acts was to reverse an order from the Bush regime that undermined Freedom of Information requests. What a contrast…
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Fiscal tipping points
Budget making is an art. An underlying reality of BC budgeting is that it takes very little to tip provincial finances from surplus to deficit…
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Poverty reduction: the time is now
There is a growing chorus calling for a BC poverty reduction plan, calling for commitments to this from all political parties ahead of the May…
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P3s: the cubic zirconium of public projects
Jonathan Fowlie and Lori Gilbert did a first rate job of looking at one facet of public private partnerships (P3’s) in the January 23 Vancouver…
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Breaking free of the “balanced budget” chains
As the next provincial budget is prepared (and election platforms are written), a core reality is this: we face huge economic uncertainty, which makes forecasting…
