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It’s time for Canada to withdraw from the Safe Third Country Agreement
About the authorJon MiltonJon Milton is a writer and editor on the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ communications team. His work focuses on social movements…
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Adult Refugees and Newcomers in the Inner City of Winnipeg
Promising Pathways for Transformative Learning Download 2.58 MB32 pages This paper focuses on English as an Additional Language (EAL) for adult newcomers and draws from…
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Death of the Tiger: A Cautionary Irish Tale
The Irish people go to the polls on February 25. The governing Fianna Fail party—that created the fallen Celtic Tiger economic model and is now…
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Hats off to you, Mr. McKimm
In the mountain of material presented with the 2011 BC Budget (OK, much of it was an electronic mountain) there was one remarkable nugget of…
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Much ado about the provincial debt
If you read Vaughn Palmer’s online budget analysis in the Vancouver Sun, you’d be forgiven thinking that deficit hysteria is making a comeback in BC.…
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Putting History on Track
Using Heritage as a Tool for Downtown Rejuvenation in Winnipeg Download About the authorBenjamin Gillies
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Fast Facts: Putting Winnipeg On Track
Using Heritage as a Tool for Downtown Rejuvenation For the full report Putting History on Track: Using Heritage as a Tool for Downtown Rejuvenation in…
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BC Budget Commentary: where is the debate on new priorities?
For what was billed as a no-news budget, the 2011 February Budget is causing quite the splash in the media. In the absence of policy…
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Petrol’s Paid Pipers
Are the tar sands calling the tune in Alberta’s classrooms? Download 123.45 KB 13 pages “Petrol’s Paid Pipers,” from the Winter 2011 Our Schools /…
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Should you care who owns the Toronto Stock Exchange?
So maybe you didn’t lose a night’s sleep when the TMX group, the owner of the Toronto Stock Exchange, announced plans to merge with the…
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Raising the minimum wage: not if but how much and how fast
While lone voices from the business sector still oppose a minimum wage increase (as in this article in The Province), the minimum wage debate in…
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BNN and the growing gap
For the past few weeks, a business leader could scarcely pick up a magazine without bumping into that other inconvenient truth of our era: rising…
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Myths and Facts About the Minimum Wage in BC
Behind the Numbers Download 397.68 KB4 pages Iglika Ivanova sets out a compelling argument for raising the minimum wage — in just four-pages of clear,…
