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The ‘Ball’ or the ‘Bridge’
The stark choice for social assistance reform in Ontario Download 242.76 KB5 pages
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Taxation and Poverty
Injustice built into our tax system hurts poor the most U.S. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once famously declared: “I don’t mind paying taxes. They buy…
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The Latin American Revolution (II)
El Salvador the latest Latin American country to turn left Joining the revolutionary wave sweeping Latin America, the people of El Salvador in March elected…
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Investor Rights Trump Human Rights
The Investment Chapter of the Canada-Colombia FTA Download 133.46 KB6 pages
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Reading the entrails of BC’s election
Three-peat. Hat trick. The media is full of jubilation for the re-election of the Campbell Liberals. But looking at the numbers, it was actually quite…
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Watch out for that train
Is it too early to start talking about what happens now the election is over? Because that light at the end of the tunnel really…
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Bike to Work Week and our transportation culture
Pouring rain marked the start of Vancouver’s Bike to Work Week (May 11 – 17) this year, but those who braved the weather conditions are…
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Where’s Our Danny Boy (2)? Mayor of embattled town weighs in on needed forest reforms
Few British Columbia communities have been hit as hard by the forest industry crisis as Mackenzie. Some 1,500 jobs, by mayor Stephanie Killam’s estimate, have…
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BC government should heed its own report on childcare
Do you remember the 2008 Throne Speech in which the provincial government launched a feasibility study on providing full day kindergarten for 5 year-olds and…
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What are we going to do with the oil and gas industry?
That is the question no one seems willing to entertain in this election campaign. In today’s Vancouver Sun, David Collyer of the Canadian Association of…
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Why young children’s education and care are not priorities in this election
It seems clear that policy-makers in this province (and country, for that matter) are not prepared to invest in a quality early education and childcare…
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