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Accounting games of Olympic proportion
The long awaited 2010 security budget was finally unveiled today. The latest estimate pegs the cost of securing the Olympics at $900 million or just…
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Numerically Challenged
The BC budget just doesn’t add up once you look at some of the details. Since the 2009 economy is shrinking, how can revenues from…
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Government wage freeze damages economy
One more sign as to how out of touch the February 17 BC Budget is with the rest of the world. The BC Budget includes…
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The Budget: A Determinant of Health
I know this budget is supposed to be good news for health, but I want to argue here that the exact opposite is true. We’ve…
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Time to take the axe to province’s dubious forest-related budget projections
Two words sprang to mind this week when perusing the provincial government’s latest revenue projections from BC’s once healthy, wealth-producing forests – confusing and misleading.…
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Happy Birthday, Carbon Tax!
A year ago, in the 2008 BC Budget, a new tax was born. There was a hush over the House as its mother, the Finance…
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Why do BC kids need Finance Minister’s charitable donation to buy them shoes?
Minister Hansen donated money for shoes for poor children. Then he delivered a budget that doesn’t help parents who receive income assistance or who are…
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Talk of addressing homelessness in Throne Speech remains just that
Yesterday’s Throne Speech got me excited with its promise of finally addressing homelessness in BC. Like everyone else, I expected the economy to be the…
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