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Low income leads to poorer mental health
Statistics Canada recently published an interesting study on the relationship between low income and poor mental health. The paper, titled “Income and Psychological Distress: the…
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Time to Pee on P3’s
Maybe it’s the Baja sun; perhaps it’s the tequila I’ve been forced to drink down here. But I just cannot understand the Vancouver Sun’s angst…
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Chaoulli II?
So private surgical clinics, led by Brian Day, are suing the BC government so they can charge patients for services that they, the patients, already…
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The utter stupidity of P3s in BC
For the “we told you so” file. The BC government has been insisting on P3s (so-called “public-private partnerships” where the private sector builds and operates…
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Forensic auditors say P3s expensive, biased and secret
So who are you going to believe about public private partnerships (P3s)? One side of the debate says they’re swell. They save money for taxpayers,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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