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Budget fédéral alternatif 2026 : Assurance-emploi
Ce que le gouvernement canadien devrait faire en matière d’assurance-emploi. Une véritable indépendance exige un nouveau modèle économique.
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Creating a Canadian infrastructure bank in the public interest
Download 190.6 KB 13 pages During the 2015 federal election, the Liberals promised to establish a federal infrastructure bank to provide low-cost financing to municipalities.…
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Work Life: The Unbearable Resilience of P3’s.
On March 6, 2017, the Winnipeg Free Press reported that the Manitoba government was examining Saskatchewan’s experience with using Public Private Partnerships (P3s) to build…
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BC Budget 2017: $600 million in tax breaks for business
Does the BC business sector need a tax cut? Not so much. But Budget 2017 promises to give business over $600 million in additional annual…
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Affordable housing and jobs: Now is the time to build
The BC government is spending millions on advertising to promote its actions on affordable housing. In Metro Vancouver, however, where the crisis is most acute,…
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Le bien-fondé du renouvellement de l’éducation postsecondaire
Download 746.54 KB20 pages Au cours des 15 dernières années, les recettes provenant des frais de scolarité ont triple, la dette étudiante a grimpé de…
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The Case for Renewal in Post-Secondary Education
Download 713.39 KB 17 pages Over the past 15 years, revenue from student tuition has tripled, public student debt has ballooned (reaching $28 billion by…
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Fast Facts: Funding Non-Profit Organizations Gives Good Value for Money
Several small non-profit organizations (NPOs) are nervously awaiting Manitoba’s 2017 budget. Funding sources they’ve come to rely on have been ‘on pause’ for months and…
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Fixing the carbon tax: A closer look at the BC NDP’s climate plan
The BC NDP unveiled its climate plan in early February, and its key plank is to increase the BC carbon tax from its current $30…
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Alternative Federal Budget 2017: High stakes, clear choices
The following remarks are excerpted from the 2017 Alternative Federal Budget press conference, featuring Kate McInturff, David Macdonald and Peter Bleyer (March 9th, Parliament Hill). About…
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Five emerging trends in affordable housing and homelessness
On January 24, I gave a presentation to students at the University of Calgary as part of the Certificate in Working with Homeless Populations program. The goal…
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Who is Buying the Farm?
Farmland Investment Patterns In Saskatchewan, 2003-14 Download 733.39 KB12 pages The question of who should get the right to own farmland in Saskatchewan has been…
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From disenfranchised to revitalized: Ten proposals to set our forests and BC’s rural communities on a new course
Fort Nelson and Merritt lie at two geographical extremes, the former perched in the northeast corner near some of British Columbia’s biggest natural gas plays,…
