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Canada’s Broken Promises to Migrant Care Workers
VANCOUVER — The federal government must ensure that just-announced pilot programs for migrant care workers are not the latest in a series of failed such programs,…
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Profiting From a Manufactured Housing Crisis
Download 666.21 KB 17 pages About the authorMichael Shapcott
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Profiting from a manufactured housing crisis
New technical report reveals that investors bank tax-free earnings as tenants struggle to pay rent READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. TORONTO—The 4.8 million women, men…
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Trade rules create barriers to high quality municipal services
At the just-finished annual meeting in Hamilton of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) delegates were undoubtedly talking about municipal strategies for water protection in…
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Let Them Eat Cake
The Anniversary of BC’s Tax Cuts is No Reason to Celebrate Download 69.26 KB About the authorMarc LeeMarc Lee is a Senior Economist with the…
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Our Schools/Our Selves: Summer 2002
Seeking Social Justice through Media Literacy The media-literate student should “be able to make conscious critical assessments of the media, to maintain a critical distance…
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June 2002: A U.S.-Financed Military Dictatorship
Pakistan has long, bloody history as terrorist arm of U.S. The United States’ choice of Pakistan as an ally in its “war on terrorism” provides…
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There is No Case for Privatizing Hydro One
A Critical Assessment of the “Business Case” for Abandoning Public Ownership and Control of Ontario’s Most Strategic Asset About the authorsMyron GordonMike McCrackenDoug Peters
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Prominent economists challenge rationale for privatizing Hydro One
(Toronto) In a report released today, three prominent economists throw cold water on the “business case” that the provincial government has offered for privatizing Hydro…
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Evidence shows public-private partnerships not a solution, experts
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) A panel of experts from Britain, the U.S. and Canada on “public-private partnerships” (P3’s) say that British…
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From Global to Local
GATS Impacts on Canadian Municipalities Download 572.23 KB 50 pages About the authorMichelle Swenarchuk
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Trade rules may prevent municipalities from implementing Walkerton recommendations
Study READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. (OTTAWA) Municipalities may face unexpected barriers in implementing the Walkerton Inquiry recommendations to protect drinking water and agricultural lands…
