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Nobody’s Poster Child
Why the “Canadian Model” Cannot Be Used to Promote Financial Liberalization at the World Trade Organization Download 205.98 KB10 pages Despite the 2008 financial meltdown,…
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BC’s carbon tax turns two
With all of the attention focused on the HST implementation on July 1, most people seemed to miss the next increment of that other much-hated…
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On the economic impacts of the HST
My previous HST post focused on the impact of the tax on households and I concluded that it’s likely that it will cost families and…
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Statistics Canada’s Senseless Census Decision
Open letter to the Honourable Tony Clement, Ministry of Industry and Minister Responsible for Statistics Canada and Munir Sheikh, Chief Statistician, Statistics Canada June 30,…
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Our Schools/Our Selves: Summer 2010
The School as Community Hub: Beyond Education’s Iron Cage The summer issue of Our Schools/Our Selves, the third in the “Iron Cage” series, is edited…
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The “Unsustainability Myth”
Don’t believe claims Medicare is becoming unaffordable Total health care spending in Canada has been rising in recent years, taking larger shares of government revenues…
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Looking on the Bright Side
There’s still good reason not to become a pessimist You may have missed the news about a recent study by the Mayo Clinic on optimism…
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The Latin American Revolution (Part VI)
Public health care planned for all of Latin America [Editor’s Note: The first half of this article, which is about Latin American integration, was published…
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Democratic Media Reform in Canada
Campaigns, coalitions aim to democratize media system Faced with a corporate-dominated mediascape and perceived editorial indifference or hostility, trade unions and other progressive Canadian organizations…
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