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BC Commentary: A Review of Provincial Social and Economic Trends
Winter 2011, Volume 14, Number 1 Download 1.89 MB8 pages Inside this issue: Cuts to Forest Service are too Deep by Ben Parfitt How BC’s…
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CCPA Review: Critics of Hydro/Government plans for Bipole III lack credibility
Last month the Winnipeg Free Press published a full page of criticism regarding the decision to run the Bipole III transmission line down the West…
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Over a decade, average BC wages fall below Canadian average
Every week the government publication BC Stats Infoline publishes a summary of usually pretty interesting things going on in British Columbia. They have a nice…
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The problems with the textbook analysis of minimum wages
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the sorry state of the BC minimum wage, stuck at $8 after nine years two months and still…
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BC’s $8 minimum wage sets another record (low)
Did you know that BC, the home of the lowest minimum wage in Canada, just recently became the province with the longest minimum wage freeze…
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Harmonization of drug standards may put private profit before public health
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—As Health Canada begins its final consultations on proposals to “modernize” standards on prescription drugs, a study released…
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Who’s Calling the Tune
Harmonization of Drug Regulation in Canada Download 328.71 KB18 pages Harmonizing standards on drug regulation among countries makes sense since it can reduce the workload…
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New Brunswick Tax Reform – ineffective, regressive and unsustainable
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT The government’s tax reform package is based on the belief that income tax cuts have the power to…
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The Fiscal and Economic Implications of Tax Reform in New Brunswick
Download 605.09 KB30 pages This report reviews the Liberal government’s 2009 New Brunswick income tax reform. On the personal income tax side, the main change…
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