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“Alberta Next”, migrants’ rights come last
The “Alberta Next” initiative, led by Premier Danielle Smith, represents a significant push toward greater provincial autonomy within Canada. Through town halls and surveys conducted…
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Analysis finds that BC’s “record levels” of K-12 education funding are a fiction
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. VANCOUVER–Contrary to provincial government claims that education funding is at “record levels”, new analysis released today finds that education funding…
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What’s the real story behind BC’s education funding crisis?
Download 657.31 KB8 pages This short paper challenges the BC government’s rhetoric that education funding is at “record levels”, and shows that BC can afford to…
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Infographic: Is BC education funding really at “record levels”?
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Why the provincial government should stop bragging about K-12 education funding
For families getting ready to send their children back to underfunded and overcrowded classrooms, it’s no secret that BC’s public education system is stretched to…
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Growth Charges: All Winnipeggers have a stake
The issue of development fees has made headlines again as the consultant hired to take on another study of growth financing in Winnipeg, Hemson Consulting…
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My wife says I hold on to things too long. Still, when I read BC Hydro’s most recent rate application to the BC Utilities Commission (BCUC), I…
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The BC government’s updated climate (non-)plan: This is not leadership
Today, after many months of delay (on a Friday afternoon in summer), the BC government finally released an updated “Climate Leadership Plan.” Except it isn’t one.…
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Fracking, earthquakes and hydro dams? Don’t worry. We have an understanding.
This is the second of two posts. Read the first here. Efforts by BC Hydro to ban potentially destructive natural gas company fracking operations in…
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Big dams and a big fracking problem in BC’s energy-rich Peace River Region
Download 293.5 KB12 pages This short paper describes senior BC Hydro officials’ fears that earthquakes triggered by natural gas industry fracking operations could damage Peace…
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Infographics: A big fracking problem in BC’s Peace River Region
Click to enlarge (files open in a new window). Read the news release here.
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