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Ontario learned the hard way The recent Ontario provincial budget probably doesn’t sound like exciting summer reading to most people, but British Columbians might want…

One of this province’s great success stories is a decade of land-use planning. In most areas of the province, we have gone from a culture…

Summer 2002, Volume 5, Number 3 Download 137.93 KB4 pages Inside this issue: The Global is Local: Shrinking the Public Sector in BC by Marc…

The Case of BC Hydro Download 179.05 KB 24 pages

When the Liberals took power in BC, the first order of business was a massive tax cut. Promising to revitalize the economy by putting more…

It is hard to argue against freedom. After all, no one wants to be constrained from doing what they want to do. Free marketeers are…

READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA–When G8 leaders meet next week in Kananaskis, the plight of Africa will be at the top of their agenda.…

CCPA’s Response to the Federal Discussion Paper on Kyoto Ratification There is one option in the federal discussion paper that does not allow Canada to…

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) A panel of experts from Britain, the U.S. and Canada on “public-private partnerships” (P3’s) say that British…
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