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Clean Energy Act will cost billions for BC
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If the Taxpayers Federation gets its way, we can be just like California
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Message to Britain: Don’t Follow Our Lead on Austerity
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Canada’s Poverty Hole
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New BC generic drug plan could save millions – but maybe not for everybody
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A new era for measuring poverty in Canada
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Medicare Sustainability: Facts & Myths
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Fast Facts: Child welfare devolution in Manitoba
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Quebec Auditor General slams P3s in hospital project
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Poverty reduction: What other provinces are doing
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Fast Facts: Poor No More?
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Off the Highway by Mette Bach: politics and memoir
Another suggestion for summer reading: brand new from local publisher New Star Books: Off the Highway by Mette Bach, a short (about 80 pages) memoir…
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