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Brigette DePape: Silently Speaking Truth to Power
Most Canadians will now have seen the striking image of Brigette De Pape. The determined solitary young woman, surrounded by the highest ranking public officials…
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Fast Facts: Silently Speaking Truth to Power
Most Canadians will now have seen the striking image of Brigette DePape. The determined solitary young woman, surrounded by the highest ranking public officials in…
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What would Stanley say about Brigette Marcelle?
For the last 30 years or so when confronted with a thorny issue I have often asked myself this question: what would Stanley say? This…
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Jack Mintz is Right on “Small” Business Tax
One of my main undertakings over at Relentlessly Progressive Economics has been to debunk Jack Mintz’s relentless advocacy of tax cuts for large corporations. However, I also…
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Throne Speech: Jobs Rhetoric, Not Job Creation
Perhaps the government’s new mantra for the budget and the throne speech is telling in its ordering. First priority is low tax, and then if…
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NDP propose BC Poverty Reduction Act
Today in the BC Legislature, the Official Opposition (MLA Shane Simpson) introduced a private member’s Bill proposing a BC Poverty Reduction Act. That Act, were…
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Oil and our coast – surely southern B.C. as important as The Great Bear
Like Mitch Anderson, in a must-read feature article in The Tyee, I am perplexed at the comparatively little attention that environmental organizations pay to the…
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Suspicion about private finance schemes growing in the UK
On May 16th British Columbia’s Auditor General published a report on Vancouver General Hospital P3 that raised serious doubts about public private partnerships in British…
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Does Capitalism Save Lives?
I was watching CNBC and happened to see this panel about how the number of Americans killed by natural disasters has declined over time. It was also…
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