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Budget fédéral alternatif 2026 : Introduction
About the authorAlternative Federal Budget Project/AFB Working Group
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Damming the information flow: BC government officials button lipped on potentially dangerous dams
Early last spring, provincial civil servants cut off virtually all communication about what the government knew about a sprawling network of potentially dangerous and unregulated…
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Does BC need a UK-style Minister of Loneliness?
A British Cabinet Minister, Tracey Crouch, has been given the task of coming up with a national strategy to combat an epidemic of loneliness in the UK.…
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Ontario budget throws down the election gauntlet
In its waning days before a June election, with the opposition breathing down its neck, the Ontario government threw down the gauntlet with what is…
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Five things to know about the 2018 Alberta Budget
Alberta’s 2018 budget was tabled on March 22, 2018. The official name of this year’s budget is Budget 2018: A Recovery Built to Last. Here are…
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Time for a course correction in Ontario school funding: report
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT TORONTO – Teachers and education workers are rallying behind a new blueprint to fix Ontario’s 20-year-old education funding…
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Scientific “review” of fracking falls well short of what is needed: full public inquiry required, groups say
VANCOUVER – A scientific panel appointed by the provincial government to review natural gas industry fracking operations conspicuously avoids tackling human health concerns, which can…
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Course Correction
A Blueprint to Fix Ontario’s Education Funding Formula Download 386.28 KB17 pages Twenty years after the Mike Harris Conservative government implemented its education funding formula in…
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Nova Scotia Budget a wedge, not a lever
There is an urgency for our government to use fiscal policy to promote a different kind of economic growth that no longer sacrifices the environment,…
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Poverty interventions are health interventions: Three considerations
An irrefutable evidence base demonstrates that socioeconomic conditions—in particular poverty and inequality—impact health. In health care we call these conditions ‘social determinants of health’ (SDOH)—a…
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No human should be homeless
“I realized was that providing healthcare and managing people’s medical condition, while important, failed to address some of the underlying challenges that were impacting their…
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Comprehensive action on surgical waiting times is good news for BC
The case for bold, evidence-based action on surgical waiting times—especially for hip and knee replacements that are among the longest in the country—is clear. That…
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In defence of BC’s new “speculation” tax
Among the housing measures announced in BC Budget 2018, the new speculation tax has caused the most uproar. Some of this stems from a lack…
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