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Private Profit at a Public Price
Deciding the Future of the Public-Private Partnership Schools in Nova Scotia Download 992.28 KB 40 pages This study evaluates the P3 schools program in Nova…
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Foreign investor protections in the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Download 415.8 KB 20 pages This study examines the special privileges, enforced through investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), which would be given to foreign investors under…
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Ontario’s new climate plan needs bigger sticks, more carrots
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Gains in construction pull up Ontario employment in May
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Evidence-based Policy – wouldn’t that be a change
The case for personal care homes Budget 2016 pledges $160 million to create 1,200 new Personal Home Care (PCH) spaces. It is to be hoped…
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Toxic landslides into the Peace River continue, add to fears about impacts of Site C and fracking
Toxic heavy metals, including arsenic, barium, cadmium, lithium and lead, are flowing unchecked into the Peace River following a series of unusual landslides that may…
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Burdened by Indicators
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There was a fair amount of good news about Freedom of Information rules and a little bit of bad news last month. But the bad…
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3 problems with the Fraser Institute’s alarmist report on health care spending
A new report from the Fraser Institute declares: “Health care spending by British Columbia’s government is unsustainable.” But watchers of Canadian politics know to take…
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