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New Year’s report card
I told you so Some newspaper columnists in Canada follow a New Year’s tradition of acknowledging in print the most glaringly inaccurate predictions they made…
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E-Commerce vs. E-Commons
Communications in the Public Interest Download 1.65 MB228 pages From privacy issues to intellectual property, from universal access to union activism, the essays contained in…
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BC Commentary: A Review of Provincial Social and Economic Trends
Winter 2001, Volume 4, Number 1 Download 295.44 KB4 pages Inside this issue: Trade Agreements: What the New Alphabet Soup Means for BC Powerless: Electricity…
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Our Schools/Our Selves: Winter 2001
Public Education and Moral Monsters: A Conversation with Noam Chomsky It is startling to learn that amidst the volumes of literature which addresses current trends…
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Why lock chaos into place?
Deregulation of electricity markets in California and Alberta has resulted in brown-outs, huge price increases for electricity users, and possibilities of future shortages that could…
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Mean Streets?
The Social Locations, Gender Dynamics, and Patterns of Violent Crime in Winnipeg Download 125.14 KB 27 pages
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December 2000: Profiting From Repression
Canadian firms in Colombia protected by military death squads Since 1990, 35,000 Colombians have been killed in a horrific escalation of political violence. An average…
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What are we going to do about Saudi Alberta?
Imagine a family with ten children. Some of the kids may be a little smarter or prettier due to the luck of the draw. But…
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Vehicle feebates should be considered
The response from the automobile industry to the provincial government’s discussion paper on vehicle feebates was expectedly swift and critical. Indeed, vehicle feebates–taxing the purchase…
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