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Olympics – ‘Rousing Financial Success’?
Though not a true believer myself, I can think of a number of positive impacts from the 2010 Olympics. There was, without question, a community…
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Missing the Vote: Democratic Reform in BC
I’ve long thought that we should lower the voting age to 16, so thanks to Mike deJong for raising it in the BC Liberal leadership…
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UNICEF shames Canada for inequality among children
In an earlier blog Shannon Daub reported on Mark Milke’s assertion that inequality was a lot of humbug. UNICEF has published a report that shows…
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Mortgage financing reform needed to avoid another crisis: report
OTTAWA—In a report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), two prominent economists propose changes to U.S. and Canadian mortgage finance polices…
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How fossils fuel campaigns
Kevin Falcon’s tour of northeast BC, heart of the province’s oil and gas industry, and his dissin’ of BC’s (modest but important) climate measures was…
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Opportunity will solve poverty, we can all get stinking rich if we work hard enough, and my pet unicorn is real
Mark Milke argues in today’s Vancouver Sun that massive and growing inequality is not a serious problem. In his mind, anyone concerned about the growing…
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The Halifax Convention Centre – a bottomless money pit?
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT HALIFAX, NS – The proposed new convention centre has the potential to be a bottomless money pit, cautions…
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Convention Centre in Nova Scotia
Economic Wellspring or Bottomless Pit? Download 958.81 KB34 pages Over the past several months, there has been a divisive public debate over a proposal to…
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