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Rags, Meet Riches: Celebrating the growing gap’s real unsung heroes
I have to admit that lately I’ve been thinking maybe some of us in the 99% have been just a teensy bit unfair. And it…
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Ontario’s Mining Tax Barely Scratches the Surface
Minerals Extracted Revenue Public Return Saskatchewan $ 7,084 $ 650 9.2 % Northwest Territories $ 2,033 $ 108 5.3 % British Columbia $ 7,074…
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Comparing two carbon bombs: LNG plants vs Enbridge pipeline
With the spotlight on the federal government’s aggressive push to export tar sands bitumen via the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline to Kitimat, and from there…
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Old Age Security: Can We Afford It?
Download 169.46 KB4 pages Old Age Security (OAS) is the basic building block of Canada’s retirement income system. Canadians build on that foundation, saving for…
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Fast Facts: Labour-Management Conflict in Brandon’s Public Sector
Chapter 2 Labour-management conflict has once again taken centre stage in the city of Brandon. The first episode involved the Brandon University Faculty Association (BUFA)…
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Canada’s Incredible Shrinking Population?
On CTV yesterday, human resources minister Diane Finley said (45 seconds into this interview): “As we go forward, we’re going to have three times the expense…
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Whatever happened to gender identity and expression?
A year ago this week, Bill C-389, An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code (gender identity and gender expression),…
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The OAS Eligibility Age and Employment
It is argued that eligibility for OAS/GIS discourages older Canadians from remaining in the workforce, and that we need to keep them working to avoid…
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After Self-Sufficiency — Will the Public or Private Interests be Served?
It was, I suppose, too much to expect the government to acknowledge that the self-sufficiency and insurance requirements it had imposed on BC Hydro was…
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