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Expensive housing eroding BC’s economy — new report offers solutions agenda
VANCOUVER – Scarce and expensive housing is eroding the province’s liveability and economy and the skyrocketing price of homes has become a source of enormous wealth…
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Living With Uncle
Canada-US Relations in an Age of Empire Download 79.72 KB | 279 pages About the authorEd Finn
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FastFacts: Attack on Wheat Board Exposes Authoritarian Predisposition of Harper Government
Download 33.46 KB About the authorKen Larson
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Selling the Family Silver: Oil and Gas Royalties, Corporate Profits, and the Disregarded Public
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. REGINA–The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and the Parkland Institute of the University of Alberta have jointly published a study…
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Selling the Family Silver
Oil and Gas Royalties, Corporate Profits, and the Disregarded Public Download 668.53 KB74 pages
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Ontario’s finances in better shape than Liberals let on, says Ontario Alternative Budget
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. TORONTO—Ontario’s finances are in much better shape than Finance Minister Greg Sorbara claims, says an Ontario Alternative Budget (OAB) Technical…
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A Spinner of Tales
Ontario’s Minister of Finance Prepares for His (Re-)Election Budget Download 110.85 KB8 pages About the authorHugh MackenzieEconomist Hugh Mackenzie is a Research Associate with the…
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For Finance Minister Flaherty – and for Bay Street – tomorrow is another day
For a politician, the only thing worse than having to use up political points cleaning up someone else’s mess, is cleaning up when the mess…
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Population aging not a demographic time bomb for health care costs: economist
(Vancouver) Fears that health care costs will spiral out of control as BC’s population ages are greatly exaggerated, according to a new study released today…
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Is BC’s Health Care System Sustainable?
A Closer Look at the Costs of Aging and Technology Download 403.25 KB29 pages Attachments SUMMARY: Is BC’s Health Care System Sustainable?
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Will an aging population bring BC’s health care system to its artificial knees?
One argument you are likely to hear in BC’s new “conversation on health” is that public health care is unsustainable because our population is aging…
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Conservative ideology dressed in rhetoric of fiscal responsibility
We expect governments to make decisions as to what programs have outlived their purpose or are deemed a waste of resources. We also expect governments…
