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BC governments extends outsourced health information management despite issues raised by Auditor General
British Columbia’s government today announced it had extended its agreement with Maximus BC, a US subsidiary corporation, to manage BC’s health information for another five years.…
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Women On Top, By The Numbers
On the occasion of International Women’s Day, we ask: Are more women making it to the top in Canada? And what does that mean for…
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Why gender equality will make you rich and popular
Closing the gender gap would transform the world we live in–for men, for women, for the better. Just imagine a world in which you have…
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Pourquoi l’égalité des sexes vous rendra riches et populaires
L’élimination de l’écart salarial entre les sexes transformerait notre monde pour le mieux, tant pour les hommes que pour les femmes. Imaginez avoir plus de…
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Child Welfare in a Neoliberal Era: Past, Present and Future
Available to the public online through the University of Toronto library is an insightful doctoral dissertation in which the student, Kristen Smith, interviewed front-line child…
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New Director for CCPA-MB appointed
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Manitoba is pleased to announce the appointment of Molly McCracken to the position of Director, CCPA-MB. Ms. McCracken brings more than…
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The Shifting Terrain of Taxes in BC: Budget signals new openness to tax increases
[The following piece was also published on The Tyee here.] These are certainly interesting times. For all the faults in last week’s BC Budget (and…
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A new government? It’s not as easy as it looks
If there is a new government in BC on May 15th, it will be confronted with issues that make the transition particularly challenging. The financial…
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The New Silk Road
Canada joining the U.S. in exploiting Afghanistan’s resources Since George Bush declared the Global War on/of Terror on September 20, 2001, some influential Canadians have…
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Idle No More: History Catching Up
First Nations honoured treaties, Canadian governments didn’t The immediate impact of the “Idle No More” protests has been, if nothing else, a rare, sustained focus…
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The “Big Business Bang” Theory
Social, economic, environmental ills all have the same cause [An earlier version of the following essay was written seven years ago, but this updated version…
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