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National Office

Economic Indicators
Employment & Labour
Government Finance
News & Commentary

Why Budget 2009 Leaves Canadians in the Cold
For Stephen Harper, the only thing that matters about the 2009 budget is that it meets the political imperatives he imposed on himself with his…
January 28, 2009
National Office

Alternative Federal Budget
Economic Indicators
Government Finance
News Release

Federal budget leaves unemployed in the cold
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA — Today’s federal budget leaves hundreds of thousands of vulnerable Canadians hanging on a very short rope…
January 27, 2009
BC

Income & Wages
Policy Note
The Economy

Poverty reduction plan: can we afford it?
Perhaps the more appropriate question is: can we afford not to have one? Public policy is always about choices, and there is no excuse for…
January 26, 2009
BC

Housing & Homelessness
Income & Wages
Policy Note

Burning down the house
Sometimes I see a letter to the editor that in one sentence captures the essence of what I was thinking but does it better and…
January 26, 2009
BC

Policy Note
Transparency & Accountability

Obama opens doors closed in BC
One of President Barack Obama’s first acts was to reverse an order from the Bush regime that undermined Freedom of Information requests. What a contrast…
January 26, 2009
BC

Policy Note
The Economy

Fiscal tipping points
Budget making is an art. An underlying reality of BC budgeting is that it takes very little to tip provincial finances from surplus to deficit…
January 26, 2009
BC

Income & Wages
Policy Note
The Economy

Poverty reduction: the time is now
There is a growing chorus calling for a BC poverty reduction plan, calling for commitments to this from all political parties ahead of the May…
January 26, 2009
BC

Policy Note
Public Services & Privatization

P3s: the cubic zirconium of public projects
Jonathan Fowlie and Lori Gilbert did a first rate job of looking at one facet of public private partnerships (P3’s) in the January 23 Vancouver…
January 25, 2009
BC

Policy Note
The Economy

Breaking free of the “balanced budget” chains
As the next provincial budget is prepared (and election platforms are written), a core reality is this: we face huge economic uncertainty, which makes forecasting…
January 25, 2009

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