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Florida Center for Instructional Technology” style=”border-radius:0px;–objectFit:cover;–imagePosX:50%;–imagePosY:50%” decoding=”async” srcset=”https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/draw_bridge-web-1024×600.jpg 1024w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/draw_bridge-web-300×176.jpg 300w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/draw_bridge-web-768×450.jpg 768w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/draw_bridge-web-1536×900.jpg 1536w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/draw_bridge-web-2048×1200.jpg 2048w” sizes=”(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px” />Access to information in BC is about to improve. Except there’s just this one little catch.
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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Alvesgaspar, via Wikimedia Commons” style=”border-radius:0px;–objectFit:cover;–imagePosX:50%;–imagePosY:50%” decoding=”async” srcset=”https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Chicken-Little.jpg 1024w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Chicken-Little-300×176.jpg 300w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Chicken-Little-768×450.jpg 768w” sizes=”(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px” />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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Why American doctors are calling for Canadian-style medicare
In a dramatic show of physician support for deep health care reform in the U.S., more than 2,200 physician leaders have signed a “Physician’s Proposal”…
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Un expert conclut que nous n’aurons pas besoin de nouveaux oléoducs si les gouvernements fédéral et provinciaux respectent leurs engagements à l’égard du climat
(Ottawa) Une nouvelle étude signée par le vétéran géologue et spécialiste des ressources David Hughes conclut que le Canada ne peut respecter ses engagements à…
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New pipelines not needed if federal and provincial governments serious about climate commitments: earth scientist
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (OTTAWA) A new study by veteran earth scientist David Hughes finds that Canada cannot meet its global climate…
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Can Canada Expand Oil and Gas Production, Build Pipelines and Keep Its Climate Change Commitments?
Download 2.48 MB 38 pages Under the Paris Agreement, Canada has pledged to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 30% below 2005 levels by 2030.…
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Graph: More Than Enough
Under Alberta’s oil sands emissions cap (set at 100 million tonnes per year), growth in oil sands production would be limited to 45% over 2014…
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The promise of the living wage
They are among the growing wave of employers in Ontario who pay their employees a living wage, which is considerably higher than the provincially mandated…
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NY/The Blue Diamond Gallery” style=”border-radius:0px;–objectFit:cover;–imagePosX:50%;–imagePosY:50%” decoding=”async” srcset=”https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/tax-avoidance-may2016.jpg 1024w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/tax-avoidance-may2016-300×176.jpg 300w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/tax-avoidance-may2016-768×450.jpg 768w” sizes=”(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px” />How much does tax avoidance damage the public good? Even more than you think.
A string of revelations about tax avoidance have made headlines in recent months, from the Panama Papers, to KPMG Canada’s tax shelter business, to a…
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