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(OTTAWA) International trade agreements and other market-driven reforms in recent years have stripped nation-states of many tools to implement the activist industrial policies needed to…

As I write this, CBC Radio is broadcasting a Memorial Day service to honour the Canadian men and women who lost their lives in defense…

Inequality in the global economy The growing gap between the world’s haves and have-nots is one of the most pressing issues of our time. Recently,…

More raw logs–along with jobs and revenue–will be shipped out of BC over the next three years. That’s because the BC government, in February of…

This is Affordable Housing Week in BC–a week dedicated to ending homelessness. Thankfully, two weeks ago, the BC Housing Corporation dropped proceedings against the 54…

READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA–Social policy in Canada should go further to address the needs of Canada’s poorest, according to a new report from…

How Canada Can Abolish Poverty and Unemployment, Even in a No-Growth Economy? Download 59.3 KB

Fall 2002, Volume 5, Number 4 Download 485.1 KB4 pages Inside this issue: Beyond “Haves” and “Have-nots”: A Closer Look at BC and Equalization Memo…
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