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The real impact of HST’s defeat on provincial finances
On Sept 8, Finance Minister Kevin Falcon released a much anticipated update on provincial finances. The Minster’s presentation focused on highlighting the cost of the…
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The Conservative Party’s Fair-Weather Democrats
With the results of the Canadian Wheat Board’s 2011 producer plebiscite now in, farmers have given the single-desk for wheat a rousing endorsement with 62% of the…
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Election 2011 UNSPUN: A Clock Worth Watching
The Winnipeg Free Press (September 7 editorial: Tick, tick, tick) correctly notes that Manitoba’s debt is a non-issue with voters. Maybe Manitobans get their information…
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So Where is the Science?
The headline in the Globe today was certainly ominous — “Clark’s Hydro policy threatens to collapse B.C.’s climate change progress, scientist says”. The purported policy…
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What the Right’s Rage Reveals
Jack Layton’s life and untimely death fundamentally changed Canadian political discourse. But both the public outpouring and its hyperpartisan response speak to another interesting shift…
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More carbon credit questions hiding in the trees
In January, a deal was struck between the Pacific Carbon Trust (the provincial Crown corporation responsible for buying carbon “offsets”) and one of British Columbia’s…
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Less on their Plate
Canada’s poorest people facing a frightful food crisis “The Federal Reserve has done, and will continue to do, everything possible within the limits of its…
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Financial Crisis as a Way of Life
Neoliberalism drives chronic worldwide financial instability From Wall Street to Iceland to Greece to Ireland, the world is lurching from one financial crisis to another.…
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Beware Private Water Speculators
Planned Ontario mega-quarry threatens crucial water supply Hedge fund manager and billionaire Seth Klarman reportedly has a cautious approach to risk-assessment when investing for the…
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