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Manitoba

Health Care

Fast Facts: Health Care – A Timely Reminder
Last month the Commonwealth Fund – a United States organization promoting evidence-based quality health care in that country – published a study comparing the U.S.…
July 22, 2010
BC

Government Finance
Human Rights
Income & Wealth Inequality
International

Canadians want real security, not $18 billion fighter jets
The recent unilateral decision by the federal government to spend up to $16 billion on the purchase and maintenance of new fighter jets is both…
July 21, 2010
Manitoba

Child Care
Human Rights

Protesting the G20: A Waste of Time?
During the G20 ministerial meetings in Toronto, the sensational images of burning police cruiser cars and broken shop windows dominated the newspaper headlines. This is…
July 20, 2010
BC

Energy Policy
Environment & Sustainability

Fossil fuel peddling impedes BC’s progress toward a green future
Based primarily on the creation of a carbon tax two years ago, the BC government has been propelled into the position of North American climate…
July 20, 2010
Saskatchewan

Infrastructure, Cities & Transit
Saskatchewan

The Fraser Institute’s bizarre stance on census long-form
Virtually alone in the growing outrage over the federal government’s decision to scrap the long-form mandatory census, the Fraser Institute threw it’s support behind the…
July 19, 2010
BC

News Release

BC’s fossil fuel exports have huge hidden carbon footprint
GHG emissions from exported coal and natural gas generate more than double BC’s combustion emissions: study READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Vancouver – BC must…
July 16, 2010
BC

Energy Policy
Environment & Sustainability

Peddling GHGs
What is the Carbon Footprint of BC’s Fossil Fuel Exports? Download 369.41 KB8 pages
July 16, 2010
BC

Policy Note
Transparency & Accountability

The Census: Evidence based decisions better than decision based evidence
There is beginning to be a lot of discussion about the decision by the Federal government two weeks ago to drop the compulsory long form…
July 14, 2010
National Office

Government Finance
Public Services & Privatization

Harper fiscal austerity plan repeats mistakes of the 1930s
Canadians trying to recover from the post-G20 blur have yet another worry on the horizon: the aftershock of the G20 leaders’ austerity plan. Two years…
July 14, 2010

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