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BC

Health Care
Policy Note

What the FCUCC?!
More on the culture of entitlement… Mark Godley is the founder and head honcho of False Creek Surgical Clinic, one of the largest companies in…
February 11, 2009
BC

Alternative Federal Budget
Economic Indicators
Income & Wealth Inequality
News Release
Tax Policy

2009 budget deficit likely to be in $1-$2 billion range – before needed stimulus plan
BC Budget must do heavy lifting on jobs, protecting vulnerable in coming recession READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. VANCOUVER – Next week’s provincial budget should…
February 11, 2009
BC

Alternative Federal Budget
Economic Indicators
Income & Wealth Inequality
Reports
Tax Policy

BC Budget Reality Check 2009
Planning for a Recession
February 11, 2009
BC

Children & Youth
Education
Policy Note

School ranking: public shaming with a statistical veneer
By printing the Fraser Institute rankings of elementary schools the Vancouver Sun gives unwarranted attention and a gloss of respectability to a cynical attempt to…
February 10, 2009
BC

Environment & Sustainability
Policy Note

Getting in Hot Water: A Lesson in Climate Subsidies
My hot water tank blew out just before Christmas. I had no idea, just went down to the crawlspace to get some wrapping paper and…
February 10, 2009
Manitoba

Economic Indicators
Housing & Homelessness
Income & Wealth Inequality
Infrastructure, Cities & Transit
Reports

“We got evicted…did I leave that out?”
Stories of Housing and Mental Health Download 1.43 MB52 pages Attachments Fast Facts: “We got evicted”
February 10, 2009
BC

Health Care
Policy Note

The culture of entitlement
Don Copeman, of the infamous Vancouver clinic that bears his name, was plugging his business in Parksville’s local paper, the Oceanside Star. While doing so…
February 8, 2009
BC

Environment & Sustainability
Policy Note

The biggest forest crisis? A lack of imagination.
Everywhere you turn it’s bleak news for BC’s forest economy. Sawmills and pulp mills shuttered left and right, and a provincial government whose lame response…
February 7, 2009
BC

Policy Note
The Economy

About that unemployment rate
A couple days ago I was musing about big job losses on the horizon. Today, there is good news and bad news. The good news…
February 6, 2009

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