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The truth about the CBC in Northern Canada
Around dinner time on the evening of May 10, 2024, communication services in the Yukon—internet, cell phone, and landline—wavered, guttered like a struck match, and …
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Help Not Wanted
Federal Public Service Cuts Have Hit Students Hard Download 144.78 KB7 pages At a time when youth unemployment is high and many university students are…
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Where’s the fanfare for tackling poverty effectively? Connecting the dots between three political moments over three months
The following op-ed was originally published in The Georgia Straight. On June 16, I attended the B.C. government’s Disability Summit, the culmination of a three-month…
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Where’s the fanfare for tackling poverty effectively?
Connecting the dots between three political moments over three months The following op-ed was originally published in The Georgia Straight. On June 16, I attended the…
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Piqued by Piketty
It seems rather clear that the main theories in French economist Thomas Piketty’s best-seller Capital in the Twenty-First Century are irritating a number of people. Recommendations to…
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Investor-State Dispute Settlement in the TTIP and CETA
Submission to the European Commission’s Public Consultation Download 337.99 KB20 pages One of the most controversial elements of modern trade treaties is the investor-state dispute…
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Funding Denied? Inconceivable! The Fire Swamp of Canadian Student Aid
About the authorJordan MacLaren
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Will offsets be the “indulgences” for our LNG sins?
In June 2014, the BC government reported on its progress towards the 2007 Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets Act, which calls for a one-third reduction by…
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BC’s controversial contract obligations dwarf its debt
Most of the discussion around the delivery of British Columbia’s public accounts this week has centred on debt (Marvin Shaffer makes excellent points in the…
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July 1st: Tenants Have No Reason To Celebrate
Each year, Canada Day coincides with Moving Day in Quebec. For the luckiest in the lot, the celebrations include heat and sweat, heavy boxes, cumbersome…
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Debt Free BC
One can only presume that the promise of a debt-free B.C. was never meant to be taken seriously. Christy Clark’s very cynical, albeit effective election…
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For the Sixth Year in a Row, Students are Struggling to Find Summer Jobs.
There is something great about summer in Canada; it’s hot but also full of promise with places to visit, camping, travelling, cottaging, trips to the…
