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What does the U.S. election mean for Canadian climate action?
About the authorHadrian Mertins-KirkwoodHadrian Mertins-Kirkwood (he/him) is a senior researcher and political economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. His work focuses on federal…
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School ranking: public shaming with a statistical veneer
By printing the Fraser Institute rankings of elementary schools the Vancouver Sun gives unwarranted attention and a gloss of respectability to a cynical attempt to…
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Getting in Hot Water: A Lesson in Climate Subsidies
My hot water tank blew out just before Christmas. I had no idea, just went down to the crawlspace to get some wrapping paper and…
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“We got evicted…did I leave that out?”
Stories of Housing and Mental Health Download 1.43 MB52 pages Attachments Fast Facts: “We got evicted” About the authorsIan SkeltonRichard Mahe
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The culture of entitlement
Don Copeman, of the infamous Vancouver clinic that bears his name, was plugging his business in Parksville’s local paper, the Oceanside Star. While doing so…
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The biggest forest crisis? A lack of imagination.
Everywhere you turn it’s bleak news for BC’s forest economy. Sawmills and pulp mills shuttered left and right, and a provincial government whose lame response…
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About that unemployment rate
A couple days ago I was musing about big job losses on the horizon. Today, there is good news and bad news. The good news…
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Love Those Deficits
As noted by Vaughn Palmer in the Vancouver Sun, it seems that all the political parties will benefit from Premier Campbell’s recent conversion to deficit…
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No full-time kindergarten this year
Kindergarten expansion in BC has officially been postponed to the indefinite future, reports Janet Steffenhagen on the Vancouver Sun’s education blog Report Card today, referring…
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The time is now for a legislated poverty reduction plan
200 community organizations & leaders to BC political parties CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT On February 5, the CCPA’s BC Office joined with…
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End subsidies to biofuel industry, think tank urges
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—Canada’s federal and provincial governments should end their subsidies to the biofuel industry, says a new report by…
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Feed People First
How biofuels are contributing to global food shortages and price increases Download 212.25 KB10 pages About the authorEdward R. Boyle
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Fast Facts: The Need for Municipal Campaign Finance Reform
Download 494.6 KB 2 pages About the authorAndrew Donachuk
