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Democracy on trial: Resist
About the authorTrish HennessyTrish is the Director of the Think Upstream project and a senior communications strategist with the CCPA National Office. She is focused…
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BC’s Natural Gas Strategy nothing more than a fairy tale
I have an oped in Saturday’s Vancouver Sun. The editor wanted me to focus on the claims of economic gains for BC, so the piece…
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Taxing the rich in Québec: major myth debunking
Annual income Increase in the effective tax rate $150,000 0.5% $190,000 1.3% $300,000 2.8% 2000 Effective tax rate 2009 Effective tax rate $0 to $15,000…
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Right-to-Work: The (Ayn?) Rand Formula
There’s reluctance among Canadian proponents to call for it by name. But Right-to-Work (longer, harder, without representation or recourse, for less money and fewer sick…
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Plan for $10 a day child care striking a chord with British Columbians
More than thirty years ago, the women’s movement put child care on the public agenda. And while there have been important successes along the way,…
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Charitable Organizations: A Pillar of Democracy
A variation of this blog post was published in the weekend Huffington Post as part of PEN Canada’s blog series examining freedom of expression for Non-Speak Week. While…
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Household debt going from bad to worse
Statistics Canada today revised the national accounts and found Canadians are now more indebted than either the Americans or the Brits were at the peak of…
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The Social and Economic (Under) Development of Northern Manitoba Communities Over the Past Two and a Half Decades
Download 1.61 MB46 pages Northern Manitoba is the area defined within the four Statistics Canada census divisons: number 19, 21, 22 and 23. It is…
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Our Schools/Our Selves: Fall 2012
Ne Lâche Pas! Striking shifts in education and community activism This issue of Our Schools/Our Selves is about the links between education and activism, but…
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BC government non-response to study on how Natural Gas Strategy breaks BC’s GHG law
Since my report on how BC’s legislated GHG targets are being compromised by the 2012 Natural Gas Strategy, I’ve been keenly interested to see how…
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Which side are you on?
NHL Lockout “The owners can basically be viewed as the Ranch, and the players, and me included, are the cattle. The owners own the Ranch…
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Enhancing Democratic Citizenship, Deepening Distributive Justice
The Living Wage Movement Download 1.06 MB 52 pages This report looks at the history of the minimum wage and living wage in Ontario and…
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Is BC breaking its GHG law by pursuing natural gas development?
Today we released a new report by yours truly, BC’s Legislated Greenhouse Gas Targets vs Natural Gas Development: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly. It was just…
