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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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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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The fateful summer of 1962
Foes of Medicare turn Douglas’s dream into a nightmare As a witness to the birth of Medicare in Canada, and as someone who played a…
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Beware the tax cut siren song
It’s finally summer, and heat waves have replaced “tax rage”–for the time being anyway. The campaign for lower taxes and smaller government is sure to…
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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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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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