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Work Life: Reversing the Damage
How the Federal Liberals can restore hope on the prairies By 2013 the Conservative government had cut overall federal taxes and other revenues to the…
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Petronas’ Pacific NorthWest LNG: profile of a carbon bomb
I submitted the following in response to a call by the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency for public comments on the February 2016 draft environmental assessment of the…
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Minister McMorris and the Missing Math
It’s always nice to be recognized. So it was a pleasant surprise to see both Minister Don McMorris and the Saskatchewan Party address our latest study on the government’s liquor privatization…
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A Sober Reminder
Economic Impacts of Liquor Store Privatization in Small Town Saskatchewan Download 721.55 KB20 pages In 2014, the Saskatchewan government privatized four rural SLGA liquor stores…
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Why not put some Metro Vancouver property transfer tax into infrastructure?
When it comes to revenue for the provincial government from property taxes in British Columbia, Metro Vancouver is such a cash cow we should be…
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Five surreal moments in BC Finance Minister’s Q & A with journalists
OK, so we know what some of the problems are with the 2016 BC Budget. Economists have analyzed how empty it is of real measures…
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Housing budget? Not so much.
It was supposed to be the housing budget, with action to address a top issue facing the province. Today’s banner headline from The Globe and…
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Which is better: RRSPs or public pensions?
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How low for how long? The fall (and rise?) of the Loonie
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