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Canada Free Trade Agreement amendments: A race to the bottom
About the authorJohn CalvertJohn Calvert is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University and a research associate with the…
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A Cure for Dutch Disease
Active Sector Strategies for Canada’s Economy Download 424.48 KB11 pages This Technical Paper reports on the negative structural consequences of the mostly unregulated resource boom…
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Selling the 2012 Federal Budget: Envy-nomics 101
“It’s time for the public sector to have its 2008 recession,” proclaimed former RBC Chief Economist Patty Croft, impeccably dressed and looking admirably well-rested (early retirement seems…
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Ontario to Mine for More Revenue
Last week’s provincial budget promised a mining sector review “to ensure Ontario receives fair compensation for its non-renewable resources,” a proposal advanced by this blog and the United Steelworkers before appearing as a…
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Alternative Budget Provides path for Nova Scotia to Move Forward to Fairness
About the authorJason Edwards
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When Is A Conservative Not A Conservative?
Today we learned that Rights and Democracy — an agency established by Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney in 1988 to monitor human rights and democratic…
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You Know You’re Not Alone: Community Development in Public Housing (the report)
About the authorCanadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
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You Know You’re Not Alone: Community Development in Public Housing (the report)
Download 2.29 MB This report looks at family resource centres in six Manitoba Housing complexes outside Winnipeg’s inner city. These resource centres meet very basic…
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Fast Facts: You Know You’re Not Alone
Community Development in Public Housing In Winnipeg, three out of five households living in poverty live outside the inner city. This suggests that although the…
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Federal Job Cuts: The Real Numbers
2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2007 Strategic Reviews 395 403 403 403 2008 Strategic Reviews 586 598 604…
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Understanding the provincial budget
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE Halifax, NS – Tomorrow, when the government releases their budget, there will be a lot of talk about getting “Back…
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Twelve Things You Should Know about Nova Scotia’s Fiscal Situation
Nova Scotia Alternative Budget 2012 Backgrounder To help Nova Scotians fully understand the fiscal situation and the full range of choices this government has, the…
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Cue the Bleeding Heart Response from SunMedia
I know it’s not considered “politically correct” to talk about this. But I, for one, am sick of these welfare types taking my hard-earned money…
