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4 year municipal elections: are we trading long term planning for accountability?
The BC government has announced changes to the way local government elections will be run. One of the changes will be that when local government…
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U.S. Guaranteed Share of Our Oil Growing
NAFTA oil/gas-sharing clause threatens our energy security Twenty-five years ago, when I first scrutinized the text of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA), I warned…
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Scorpions, Icebergs, and Cancers
We have to understand capitalism before we can challenge it Readers’ reaction to my “Cui Bono” column in the February issue has been mixed. Most…
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Our Deadliest Addiction
Oil drives our commerce, but could drive us to extinction “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river…
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Hennessy’s Index: March 2014
Tax Cuts 101 Hennessy’s Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy, about Canada and its place in the world.…
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Young Workers in Newfoundland and Labrador
Sinking, Swimming, or Treading Water? Download 795.15 KB 30 pages Young people today in Canada face a reality vastly different from the one 20 or…
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Work Life: A Province with No Poverty?
The so-called war on poverty has been an abysmal failure. Poverty rates in Canada remain at stubbornly high levels. Most provinces, including Manitoba, still have…
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Lac-Mégantic: Time for an independent inquiry
Almost eight months since the terrible rail tragedy at Lac-Mégantic, most questions about its causes and responsibility remain unanswered. Why did Transport Canada allow the…
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LNG’s threat to water sustainability
By Ben Parfitt and David Hughes One glaring problem with the provincial government’s strategy to turn British Columbia into a liquefied natural gas exporting juggernaut…
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