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Democrats’ disastrous presidential campaign shows how not to defeat the far right
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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Threatened Harvest
Protecting Canada’s world-class grain system Download 1.79 MB 84 pages About the authorsScott SinclairJim Grieshaber-Otto
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Récolte menacée
Protéger le système des grains de calibre mondial du Canada Download 1.91 MB94 pages About the authorsJim Grieshaber-OttoScott Sinclair
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Fast Facts: Keynes and the 2009 Provincial Budget
Download 528.32 KB 2 pages About the authorsErrol BlackLynne Fernandez
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Protecting Canada’s world-class grain system
Well-functioning regulatory systems tend to be invisible, until tragedy occurs. It is only after someone dies from drinking contaminated water or eating tainted food, a…
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Canadian vulnerability in the face of the global economic crisis
As Prime Minister Stephen Harper heads to London for the G-20 leaders’ meeting on the global economic crisis, he will undoubtedly tell other leaders that…
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Public being misled by marketing of medical scans, new research reveals
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Authors of a new study warn that private clinics selling high-tech services to screen healthy people for disease could be…
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Parts of election gag law unconstitutional
The Judge adjudicating the case against BC’s election gag law has said that parts of Bill 42 are not constitutional. Justice Cole of the Supreme…
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Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words
Or twenty thousand as the case may be. The CCPA published a number of major studies in recent years about BC’s unacceptably high levels of…
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Is the stimulus killing the P3 model?
While BC has not formally abandoned the P3 model, there is a notable absence of new P3 projects at a time when billions of dollars…
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Is funnelling money into shovel-ready projects the best strategy for infrastructure development?
I often get asked: “Shouldn’t we support the Olympics or the Port Mann bridge (or any of the multitude of poorly handled infrastructure projects in…
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Poverty Amid Plenty
A Slideshow About Welfare in BC https://vimeo.com/3593782 This is the first chapter from a narrated video slideshow about British Columbia’s welfare system. View the rest…
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Judy Graves on why welfare matters to everyone
https://vimeo.com/3670669 Judy Graves is a housing advocate with the City of Vancouver in BC, Canada. Judy talks about why welfare (or social assistance) is so…
