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While world leaders are increasingly saying out loud that the postwar liberal world order is dead, the ruling classes in the Global North have an answer for what will come to replace it: fascism. Will they be able to implement their vision?
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BC
Working toward a socially and economically just British Columbia
Established in 1997, the CCPA’s BC Office investigates key challenges facing our province through independent research, analysis and expertise. We propose real, workable solutions, and share our findings as widely as possible to advance social, economic and environmental justice – and to challenge the message that there is no alternative.
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Balanced budget legislation is bad public policy
Who knew BC’s NDP government was into bondage? What else can explain the strange desire to handcuff itself with proposed balanced budget legislation (BBL)? BBL…
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Are tax cuts a free lunch?
The oft-repeated message that tax cuts will not decrease government revenues has a definite appeal. It says that not only can you have tax cuts,…
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Policy Options for Progressive Health Care in BC
Proceedings of a CCPA-BC Workshop on the Future of Health Care Download 435.21 KB 38 pages
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Balancing two essentials: Public services and the right to strike
The provincial government’s recent decision to legislate CUPE school support staff back to work raises once again the issue of what constitutes an “essential” service,…
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Education on sale
At what cost? This week, Vancouver is host to the “World Education Market.” According to the Reed Midem Organization, the show’s Paris-based organizer, this event…
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Debunking the myth that free trade benefits the world’s poor
Shortly after external protests and internal conflicts hit the Seattle WTO Ministerial and stalled a new negotiating round, The Economist magazine ran a picture of…
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Key public services in BC threatened by call for further cuts
New CCPA report shows BC’s public sector already downsized, further cuts costly to British Columbians (Vancouver) A new report released today by the Canadian Centre…
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Why spending cuts and privatization are NOT the answer for BC
Business interests in BC are lobbying hard for tax cuts for corporations and wealthy individuals. These kinds of tax cuts are regressive, because they would…
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Fraser Institute ranking fails as a measure of school quality
Most parents want their children to have an excellent education. The Fraser Institute (FI) taps into this concern with their much ballyhooed “Report Card.” This…
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Never cry wolf
Putting BC’s debt into perspective The 2000 BC budget was accompanied by a great deal of howling over the size of the province’s debt and…
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