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BC’s Regressive Tax Shift
A Decade of Diminishing Tax Fairness, 2000–2010 Attachments A Decade of Eroding Tax Fairness in BC: Time for progressive tax reform
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Power Struggle
Manitoba Hydro and the Spectre of Privatization Download 1.04 MB 31 pages For the past 40 years political leaders — supported by the majority of…
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Not allowed to talk about poverty
BC Stats put out a release yesterday with the headline “Low Income Cut-Offs (LICOs) are a Poor Measure of Poverty” and author Dan Schrier gets in a…
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Fast Facts: What is a CETA, and why should we be worried about it?
The Canadian Government is well down the road, with the European Union, towards negotiating a Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). They tell us that…
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Hiding $5 Billion
A reporter from back East called me yesterday to ask about the B.C. Auditor General’s May report into a Vancouver Coastal Health Authority P3. As…
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Fossil fuel expansion as a crime against humanity
After 2010, which was one of the warmest years on record, 2011 has shown us astonishing patterns of extreme weather worldwide. It would take a…
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The Attack on Workers: Back(sliding) (in)to the Future
The public response to recent labour disputes has been a disturbing sideshow to the return of Parliament. What’s remarkable is the level of nastiness that…
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Fast Facts: McFadyen’s Bloated Numbers Make For Murky Bi Pole III Debate
As recorded in Hansard, since the beginning of the Legislative session on April 12, there have been ongoing relentless attacks, on Hydro, the West route…
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Summertime and the Reading is Easy
Staff at the CCPA would like nothing better than to curl up with a good book (or 10) this summer. Since today is the first…
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