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BC’s publicly funded legal aid is in crisis
Imagine you are a woman who recently left your husband because he was assaulting you. Without a lawyer, fighting for the custody of your two…
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Federal spending cuts disproportionately focused on services: analysis
28,700 federal public service jobs to be cut by 2016 CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—Despite assurances by the federal government that spending…
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The Fog Finally Clears
The Job and Services Impact of Federal Austerity Download 333.85 KB10 pages This analysis provides new insight about which services federal departments are going to…
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Climate justice and BC’s political moment
The following is based on a talk at the Bring Your Boomers election forum on April 3 at the Rio Theatre in Vancouver, the fourth in a…
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Brief to House of Commons Finance Committee on Bill M-315
Download 102.73 KB 3 pages This brief was submitted on April 5, 2013 to the House of Commons Finance Committee for the hearing on Bill…
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BC’s Auditor highlights big differences between the Evergreen and Canada Lines
With all of the uproar over the British Columbia Auditor General’s report on the Pacific Carbon Trust in late March there was a second report…
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Powell River citizens talk forestry: democracy in action
With a provincial election just around the corner and municipal elections to follow shortly thereafter for many BC communities, this is a good time for…
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Absolving our Carbon Sins: the Case of the Pacific Carbon Trust
Last week’s report from BC’s Auditor General dealt a huge blow to the credibility of carbon offsets and claims that BC had achieved a state…
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The Age of Austerity
Despite austerity’s failure, politicians still won’t scrap it We are living in the “Age of Austerity” – or at least so says David Cameron, the…
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