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The Alberta Liquor Retailing Industry Ten Years after Privatization Download 597.94 KB62 pages

Albertans are paying the higher social, financial costs of liquor retail privatization CLICK HERE TO READ FULL REPORT. EDMONTON–Ten years after the government of Alberta…

Workers’ Capital in Canada Download 868.1 KB 272 pages The billions of dollars in Canadian pension funds belong to the workers for whom these funds…

Implications of International Trade and Investment Agreements for Non-Profit Social Services Download 205.13 KB186 pages Although Canada has vowed that its domestic social policies will…

READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA–This is the message of a paper released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. The paper, From Deep…

Managing Canada-U.S. Economic Relations under NAFTA Download 229.33 KB11 pages

An interview with John Rumbiak John Rumbiak is a supervisor for West Papua Institute for Human Rights Study and Advocacy (ELSHAM) based in Jayapura, the…

“Wherever you can, count,” said Francis Galton, founder of the late 19th-century Eugenics Society and one of the fathers of “mental measurement.” A hundred years…

The False Promises of Standardized Testing Download 863.53 KB 552 African-American high school students with low skills were expelled from school in Birmingham, Alabama, just…

Report OTTAWA–Nova Scotia’s record in post-secondary education has dropped that province to last place in Missing Pieces: An alternative guide to Canadian post-secondary education. In…

An Alternative Guide To Canadian Post-secondary Education Download 398.39 KB 80 pages Attachments Missing Pieces IV: Highlights

(Vancouver) The information Canadians get on new prescription drugs from a major and trusted source of information—daily newspapers—is incomplete and may promote unrealistic expectations about…
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