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Joint submission in response to Local Elections Campaign Financing Act
Download 1.34 MB17 pages BC’s provincial government recently released a “White Paper on Local Government Election Reform” and invited public comments about draft changes to…
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My Welfare Food Challenge: Day 7 – The End
Well, I’ve made it to the end of my week eating only what I could buy for $26. But eating the same thing for breakfast,…
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Lac-Mégantic: Where Does the Buck Stop?
Canadians trust that their government will take reasonable measures to protect them, their workplaces, communities and their environment. Like the young people partying at the…
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Lac-Mégantic: The buck stops at Parliament Hill—study
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA—A study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) points the finger at corporate negligence and regulatory…
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Résumé: Tragédie à Lac-Mégantic
Quand cesseront-ils de se renvoyer la balle? Download 217.56 KB14 pages Ceci est un résumé mettant en relief les principales conclusions de l’étude, The Lac-Mégantic Disaster: Where…
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The Lac-Mégantic Disaster
Where Does the Buck Stop? Download 1.08 MB 56 pages This study examines the Lac-Mégantic disaster, and points the finger at corporate negligence and regulatory…
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My welfare food challenge: Day 6
I can see now that I’m going to make it to the end of this week (last year, a number of people who took the…
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LNG: BC’s Quest for a New Staple Industry
I have a post as part of a new series from the Progressive Economics Forum celebrating 50 years of Mel Watkins’ publication of “A Staple…
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A windfall for BC’s five biggest forest companies?
Shortly before the May election, the provincial government withdrew legislation that could have handed de facto control of publicly owned forestlands to a handful of…
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