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Poverty Amid Plenty
A Slideshow About Welfare in BC https://vimeo.com/3593782 This is the first chapter from a narrated video slideshow about British Columbia’s welfare system. View the rest…
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Judy Graves on why welfare matters to everyone
https://vimeo.com/3670669 Judy Graves is a housing advocate with the City of Vancouver in BC, Canada. Judy talks about why welfare (or social assistance) is so…
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Ontario delivers a ‘hit and miss’ budget
Ontario’s 2009-10 budget is a substantial, complex budget. In some places the budget was bold, in some places it merely did what it had to…
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New report questions economic benefits of cruise industry for the Maritimes
Halifax, NS The Maritimes experienced an 1800 percent increase in cruise passenger numbers between 1990 and 2008. However, the author of a new Canadian Centre…
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Erna Calingasan: The struggle to get by on low pay
Erna Calingasan talks about the struggle to get by working two low-wage jobs. Part of a video series by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives…
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Wood wasted at BC logging sites would fill a cross-country truck convoy — twice
Costs include thousands of potential jobs, sharply higher CO2 emissions: report CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) A new report on BC’s forest…
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