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Omnibus Crime Bill an Injustice
This fall the Harper government will pass an omnibus crime bill that will imprison thousands more Canadians and cost billions of dollars. It will not…
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Plugging the Gap
Sustainable Power Options to Complement Wind and Solar Download 1.22 MB 23 pages In the debate over sustainable energy options for the future, wind and…
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The Internet Tree
The State of Telecom Policy in Canada 3.0 Download 1.71 MB218 pages In this collection, committed public interest advocates and academics present primers on provocative…
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BC’s Regressive Tax Shift
With much of the talk on taxes in BC about the HST, we issued a new report today that looks at the bigger context for BC’s tax…
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BC’s unfair tax system means richest households pay lowest overall tax rate
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Vancouver – Public debate about taxes may be focused on the HST, but a new report released by the Canadian…
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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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