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What is the “right amount” for local governments to spend?
Just how much money should a local government spend? If you ask the Fraser Institute, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) or the Canadian Federation of…
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Feds and provinces push billions in costs down on to towns and cities
It is all too easy to get lost in “today’s issue” when we look at things without realizing they are part of a larger pattern…
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Upcoming Municipal Elections: Business as Usual?
With municipal elections on the horizon in British Columbia, it is worth paying attention to the nature of political discourse in this province – and…
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How many will vote in the November 2014 local government elections?
In BC’s last local government elections in 2011 less than 30% of people bothered to vote. CivicInfoBC has a handy list of turnout information for…
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4 year municipal elections: are we trading long term planning for accountability?
The BC government has announced changes to the way local government elections will be run. One of the changes will be that when local government…
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Burning issues for Metro Vancouver
The front page story of today’s Vancouver Sun takes on Metro Vancouver’s waste incineration facility in Burnaby. The Fraser Valley Regional District has been strongly…
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Is the Fraser Surrey Docks coal port proposal in the best interest of BC?
Today’s CBC Edition Business Panel focused on the proposal by Fraser Surrey Docks to build a new coal terminal on the Fraser river to export…
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CFIB spokesperson blames downloading for muni cost increases
The Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) published a report this week talking about the alarming rate of increase in municipal spending and blaming it…
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Phony numbers, screaming headline
An enormous error in a report by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) led to a screaming headline in Wednesday’s Vancouver Sun suggesting spending…
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Expert Panel on Business Taxation sides with local governments
Hundreds of mayors, municipal councilors and regional district directors are meeting this week in Victoria at the annual gathering of the Union of BC Municipalities.…
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Hail to the Chief? Or Bailing on the Chief?
A leaked provincial Cabinet document indicates that the provincial government is contemplating “suspending” the powers of one of its most powerful public servants in order…
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And they all fall down: The day of reckoning in B.C.’s over-cut interior forests looms
For more than a quarter century, logging companies at the government’s blessing have been on a tear through British Columbia’s expansive interior forests. In the…
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