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Canada breaks ranks on bankers’ bonuses
Canada likes to think of itself as the country that emerged from the financial crisis squeaky clean. Too bad it is abdicating a leadership role…
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Alternative Provincial Budget for Nova Scotia – balancing priorities
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. HALIFAX–The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia released its ‘alternative budget’ today. The NS Alternative Budget Working Group, which is…
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Nova Scotia Alternative Budget 2009
Responding to the Crisis, Building for the Future Download 1.05 MB39 pages
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Piecing together the puzzle: help us track BC government cuts
Since winning the May election, the provincial government has been steadily cutting public services, often without any public announcement. These cuts affect services ranging from…
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Fast Facts: The Councils of Women vs. the municipal corporate utility
Last fall there was growing concern about a proposal to convert the City of Winnipeg Water and Waste Department into a stand-alone municipal utility and…
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What should our government be spending money on?
One question that is missing from the public debate on deficits and debt is whether we’re getting the best bang for the stimulus buck. Even…
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That sinking feeling: BC’s forests and CO2 emissions
As everyone knows, BC has a lot of trees. From a climate change perspective the nice thing about trees (forests, really) is that they suck…
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Putting our government debt in perspective (now with graphs)
It turns out that our province is in a good fiscal position to engage in deficit-financing at this time. BC’s debt-to GDP ratio has been…
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