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Today’s conservatives Are Not Your Grandpa’s Tories
Co-ops, Credit Unions and Free Trade Policies On the Main Street in Morden Manitoba there are two gas stations: an Esso and a Co-op. During…
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30 years of neglect: a recent history of Canada-U.S. (de)regulatory co-operation
Name Affiliation Country Industry stakeholders Sarah Amick Rubber Manufacturers Association (RMA) US Tim Brown Consumer Specialty Products Association (CSPA) US Sandra Carey International Molybdenum Association…
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Not long ago, BC received huge annual royalty revenues from its growing natural gas sector. The revenues were often billed as paying for essential public…
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Trump’s assault on regulations and the NAFTA renegotiation
U.S. President Donald Trump’s January 30 executive action on reducing regulations has been obscured by the uproar in response to his Muslim immigration ban, Mexican…
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Brad Wall, SaskTel and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea
Brad Wall has a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea for Saskatchewan; privatizing SaskTel. While the suggestion of privatizing Sasktel has been floated by…
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From NAFTA to CETA: Corporate lobbying through the back door
Download 1.35 MB21 pages Business lobby groups have long complained of different consumer protection and health measures creating unreasonable “barriers” to trade and investment. They…
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Prairie Update: Doing Austerity in Saskatchewan and Manitoba
In the Fall 2016 Monitor, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA)Saskatchewan’s Simon Enoch penned Getting to Know Brad, introducing Canada’s most popular premier – Brad…
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La réforme sournoise du RRQ
Le sujet des retraites est rarement perçu comme étant palpitant. On en parle quand arrive la saison des REER, quand on veut montrer que les…
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Work Life: 900 Manitoba Hydro Workers Thrown Off Deck
The news that Manitoba Hydro will shed 900 employees hit the community like a tonne of bricks. The new government said cutbacks were coming, but…
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