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National Office

Economic Indicators
Government Finance
International

Contagion and Collateral Damage
The Aftershocks of Global Financial Crisis Just when the world economy appeared to be settling down, Greece — that cradle of civilization, the birthplace of…
June 24, 2010
Saskatchewan

Media Analysis

Faux News North?
It now seems a certainty that we will soon have our very own “Fox News North” cable channel as Quebecor is poised to launch “SUN…
June 23, 2010
BC

Energy Policy

Clean Energy Act will cost billions for BC
While the HST has captured all the attention, the province’s passage of the Clean Energy Act in the recent legislative session is a far more…
June 22, 2010
BC

Infrastructure, Cities & Transit
Policy Note
Tax Policy

If the Taxpayers Federation gets its way, we can be just like California
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation’s Maureen Bader is inciting a tax revolt for municipal taxpayers. If she gets her way, maybe we can be just like…
June 21, 2010
National Office

Economic Indicators
Government Finance

Message to Britain: Don’t Follow Our Lead on Austerity
In his column today in The Guardian, Will Hutton is the latest pundit to suggest Canada’s example from the mid 1990s is the right way to…
June 21, 2010
National Office

Economic Indicators
Employment & Labour
Income & Wealth Inequality

Canada’s Poverty Hole
New income data suggests troubling poverty trends are unfolding in Canada Every recession ushers in a rising tide of poverty. As jobless and underemployed people…
June 21, 2010
BC

Health Care
Policy Note

New BC generic drug plan could save millions – but maybe not for everybody
Very, very quietly, the BC provincial government is negotiating new arrangements for the purchase of generic drugs that could save the province hundreds of millions…
June 18, 2010
BC

Income & Wages
Policy Note
Transparency & Accountability

A new era for measuring poverty in Canada
Last Thursday’s Statistics Canada release of individual and household income data for 2008 marks a new era in the study of poverty in Canada. Instead…
June 18, 2010
National Office

Health Care

Medicare Sustainability: Facts & Myths
Canadians are being told that public health care financing is not sustainable, and that the solution is a shift to more private health insurance and…
June 17, 2010

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