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Back from the brink
Over the last three decades, no province in Canada has moved more aggressively, or more consistently, to cut public funding to universities than Ontario. Ontario’s…
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Minimum wage increase is good public policy
The BC government has asked for input on whether or not to increase the minimum wage, and business groups have responded with a three-pronged attack.…
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Private clinics won’t cut waiting times
Recent revelations about private surgical clinics in Vancouver offering quick service to patients willing to pay a “facility fee” have once again sparked debate about…
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BC Commentary: A Review of Provincial Social and Economic Trends
Summer 2000, Volume 3, Number 3 Download 1.24 MB4 pages Inside this issue: Working for a Living: The Union Advantage in British Columbia Reducing Overtime…
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The Last Spike? Another Look at the Canadian Rail Industry
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New CCPA report finds tax cuts no miracle cure for BC
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) The BC Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives released a major new study today on…
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Balanced budget legislation is bad public policy
Who knew BC’s NDP government was into bondage? What else can explain the strange desire to handcuff itself with proposed balanced budget legislation (BBL)? BBL…
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Are tax cuts a free lunch?
The oft-repeated message that tax cuts will not decrease government revenues has a definite appeal. It says that not only can you have tax cuts,…
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Ontario’s Bill 74
Clawing back democracy Bill 74 is the most recent step in the Ministry’s goal of centralizing control and decentralizing responsibility in education–so long as the…
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A Decade of Decline
Regulated Child Care in Manitoba, 1989 – 1999 Download 281.19 KB44 pages
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Hog report released
CCPA-MB publishes report of Brandon citizens’ hearings into hog production and the environment CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT The long-awaited report into the…
