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A Spoonful of Sugar? Election budget may conceal a more uncertain economic future
The Saskatchewan government’s election year budget does what you would expect an election year budget to do. It paints a picture of a robust, growing…
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Wages, markets and temporary workers
Last November, the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) announced a scheme to speed up the processing of temporary workers for Alberta and British…
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Rising Profit Shares, Falling Wage Shares
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Wood Waste and Log Exports on the BC Coast
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Canadian workers’ paycheques in 30-year holding pattern : Study
OTTAWA – Canadians are working harder and smarter, contributing to a growing economy, but their paycheques have been stagnant for the past 30 years, says…
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Vicious downward spiral sees more coastal logs exported or left on ground to rot
Study reveals need for government action CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) Numerous opportunities to generate jobs from coastal forests are routinely squandered…
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A tree too far
Cookie-cutter responses to big problems have a way ofbackfiring, with the cure often proving worse than the disease. Theresponse to the mountain pine beetle attack…
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Over-cutting and Waste in BC’s Interior
A Call to Rethink BC’s Pine Beetle Logging Strategy Download 747.47 KB36 pages
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Trees and Jobs Wasted in Rush to Beat Beetle, Study Warns
Jointly issued by: BC Federation of Labour; BC Government and Service Employees’ Union; Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives BC Office; Communications Energy & Paperworkers Union…
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Great Expectations
Essays on Schools and Society Download 458.14 KB For all the discussion, debate, commentary and analysis on the subject of public education, few authors are…
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Addressing rural development issues in Nova Scotia
Perhaps the most important thing that we’ve learned after years of grappling with the challenges of economic development is that there are no easy solutions.…
