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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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Fast Facts: Sustainable health care begins with the social determinants of health
It’s time to get it right On May 13, 2011 the Conference Board of Canada announced the formation of the Canadian Alliance for Sustainable Health…
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An Ugently Needed Change in Monetary Policy
Borrowing from Bank of Canada would make governments debt-free Through the publicly-owned Bank of Canada, which was established in 1935, the federal government can borrow…
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Four Years to Rebuild Democracy
NGOs and unions must unite to set stage for 2015 revival The 2011 federal election was historic in many ways, and most of us are…
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The “Alberta Road”
Next door offers a cautionary lesson for Saskatchewan In his 2010 Throne Speech, Premier Brad Wall talked of the “new road” Saskatchewan has taken —…
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