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Centre calls for social reinvestment and fair tax reform (Vancouver) The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives–BC Office (CCPA-BC) is calling on Finance Minister Paul Martin…
Anatomy of a needless war READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Nato leaders have hailed their war against Yugoslavia as a moral crusade in which they…
In these days of bloated stock prices and low bond yields, it can be tough to find a good investment. Speculating on the wild ups…
When the workers at the ill-fated Gold River pulp mill took their severance packages last week, it marked closure on a frustrating struggle to save…
Who pays for university education in BC? Who pays for BC’s universities? The usual answer is the taxpayer since tuition fees amount to only one…
For some, things just seemed better in previous times. Teachers stood in front of the class and taught. Students sat in rows and were polite…
After two years of Liberal rule in Quebec under Premier Philippe Couillard, it’s time for a mid-term review. Let’s look at empirical data to see…
Dans un roman intitulé La Citadelle, l’écrivain britannique A.J. Cronin raconte le parcours sinueux d’un jeune médecin qui, après avoir expérimenté plusieurs façons de pratiquer…
In the first post of this two-part series, I looked into traditional indicators, those that the government uses to assess its own policies: GDP growth,…
Récemment, l’Institut économique de Montréal (IEDM) publiait une note dans laquelle on concluait que la subvention gouvernementale pour financer la voiture électrique était une mauvaise…
In mid-September, the Liberal Party of Quebec —not to be confused with its federal counterpart— held its fourth Forum des idées (“Idea Forum”). Over the course of…
In the time it took the moderators the US presidential debate to shut down the last microphone, just over three hundred girls were born to…
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