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Resource Economics Project (BC)
Investing causes of social and environmental insecurity in resource-dependent communities
The B.C. Office’s Resource Economics Project is a special research desk staffed by award-winning journalist and researcher Ben Parfitt. This environmental justice initiative looks into the causes of economic and social insecurity in B.C.’s resource-dependent communities. It offers policy solutions aimed at meeting the joint challenges of environmental sustainability, jobs and social justice.
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Upstairs, Downstairs and in Between
The Assets and Debts of British Columbians Download 74.08 KB
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CCPA says pay equity report acknowledges need for government action
(Vancouver) The BC Task Force on Pay Equity’s report to the BC government, tabled in the legislature yesterday, repeats what researchers and women’s groups have…
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Leaked health ministry document shows cost transfer to sick, elderly
When the provincial government announced the sweeping income tax cuts last June, it promised British Columbians more money in our pockets. It sounded good on…
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No need to subsidize business by rolling back labour rights
“No pain, no gain” seems to be the preferred cliché of the new provincial government. While this approach may be well and good for Olympic…
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Our Schools/Our Selves: Spring 2002
Tales From the Crypt or Writing the Ontario Canadian and World Studies The nightmare began innocuously enough. Despite my best instincts and the negative opinion…
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Toronto’s Revenue Crisis
A Made at Queen’s Park Problem That’s Only Going to Get Worse Download 376.01 KB7 pages
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FastFacts: The Dismal Economic Legacy of the 1990s
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BC Budget more poison pill than tough medicine, says Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Budget shifts revenues from progressive income tax to regressive MSP and sales taxes Vancouver – “The government says it is giving us tough medicine for…
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Workers comp improvements badly needed
Injured workers bore burden of changes made during ’90s CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT Winnipeg — Manitoba’s Workers Compensation Act leaves thousands of…
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