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Activity Based Funding won’t solve waitlists and overcrowding in hospitals, creates barriers to needed reforms: Study
READ THe REPORT summary HERE. VANCOUVER–As Canada’s premiers meet in Victoria to discuss different approaches to health system reform, a new study raises serious concerns…
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Making health care funding sustainable
The BC Legislature’s Select Standing Committee on Health is currently investigating the sustainability of BC’s health care system (with a focus on demographic / aging…
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Who’s really “skewing” the pipeline debate?
Apparently the Harper government and its echo chamber in the blogosphere (e.g. Vivian Krause) think that philanthropic funding of environmental groups is “skewing” the debate…
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The BC government could start with local purchasing to build jobs in our communities
The BC government has been heavily promoting its “jobs plan” over the last week on television, radio and on the internet. On twitter they invited…
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Tackling inequality means rethinking upper-income tax rates
2011 was the year rising inequality finally exploded into the mainstream discourse. A few year-end reading recommendations: Victoria Times-Colonist editorial writer Paul Willcocks wrote a…
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Reflections on the year past and the year to come: Inequality explodes into the public discourse
If this past year — marked by the Arab Spring and the fall arrival of the Occupy movement — has taught us anything, it is…
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Business dominated think tank winds up with report showing little progress in BC
The British Columbia Progress Board came out with its last report today. Gordon Campbell started the think tank in 2001 and now Christy Clark has…
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Just who should be putting who under trusteeship?
I am the first to admit that, lamentably, I know very little about the problems that face First Nations people. That did not stop me…
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Inequality and Climate Injustice: A Durban Post-Mortem
The United Nations climate change talks in Durban, South Africa, ended 2011 with a whimper. After a year in which climate disasters rolled across the…
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Is it P3s or the 3 Stooges? A tale of two cities
For those of us not fond of the expensive and secretive public private partnerships (P3s) promoted by the BC and Canadian governments, the last few…
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On climate, Canada is a rogue state
On Sunday, CTV leaked Canada’s intentions to pull out of the Kyoto treaty process on climate change. What is significant about Kyoto is that it is a…
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The New Politics Initiative: Ten Years After
Rabble.ca is running a series of reflections on the tenth anniversary of the New Politics Initiative, which sought to create a more democratic politics in…
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