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New report sets out bold 10-year plan for integrated public transit throughout BC
UNCEDED SQUAMISH, TSLEIL-WAUTUTH AND MUSEQUEAM TERRITORIES/BURNABY, B.C.—Within the next decade, British Columbia’s local transit systems could be united into an upgraded provincewide public transit network,…
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The Lottery in Which Everyone Wins?
Assessing the Latest Liberal Tax Cuts Download 126.66 KB About the authorHugh MackenzieEconomist Hugh Mackenzie is a Research Associate with the CCPA’s National Office. Follow…
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November 2000: Arming A Genocidal Force
Canadian military exports to Indonesia, 1979-1999 As the Indonesian army and its militias set fire to Dili and killed thousands of East Timorese in September…
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What happened to the national home care program?
In 1997, after wide consultation across the country, the federal government’s National Forum on Health concluded that home care should be considered an integral part…
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Private clinics no help to Canada’s public health care system
The election campaign has re-opened the debate about private clinics. Promoters of these clinics argue they will decrease waiting times and supplement, not undercut, the…
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The crumbling foundation of Medicare in BC
British Columbians are fed a stream of bad news about our public health care system. But there is one very common health story we rarely…
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Environmental tax shifting cannot replace regulation
The BC government released a discussion paper a few months ago on a relatively new policy tool: environmental tax shifting. The paper was intended to…
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Shifting Ground
A CCPA-BC Policy Brief on the Potential and Limitations of Environmental Tax Shifting Download 228.33 KB20 pages About the authorDale Marshall
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Environmental tax shifting cannot replace regulation
New CCPA report offers a framework for evaluating environmental taxes and cautions against using tax shifting as a panacea CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL…
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Internal trade negotiations a solution in search of a problem, CCPA says
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Ottawa) Federal-provincial negotiations to expand the Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT) should be stopped, according to a briefing…
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Are Taxes Behind the Hike in Gas Prices?
Download 153.26 KB About the authorHugh MackenzieEconomist Hugh Mackenzie is a Research Associate with the CCPA’s National Office. Follow Hugh on Twitter
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Reality Check: Alternative Economic Update shows Liberals have reneged on 50/50 spending promise
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA–An Alternative Economic Update released today shows that between the 1997 election and fiscal 2001, the Liberals will have spent…
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Pour faire le point
Une mise à jour économique alternative démontre que les Libéraux n’ont pas tenu leur promesse de consacrer 50 p. cent du dividende fiscal aux investissements…
