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  • If the Taxpayers Federation gets its way, we can be just like California

    The Canadian Taxpayers Federation’s Maureen Bader is inciting a tax revolt for municipal taxpayers.  If she gets her way, maybe we can be just like California. Last Friday the Globe and Mail published an article in their business section outlining how Los Angeles area apartment owners in the mid 1970s…

  • Public Interest Research Project (BC)

    Eliminating unfair MSP premiums doesn’t have to be complicated

    In an interview with Vaughn Palmer earlier this summer, the Premier confirmed her government has changed its tune on the Medical Services Plan (MSP) tax, finally admitting that it’s unfair and in need of reform. MSP is an unfair tax because it takes a bigger share of income from lower-…

  • How Workers’ Compensation cut costs for employers and benefits for injured workers

    A report published by the BC Federation of Labour last week finds that since 2002 employers have saved hundreds of millions of dollars in Workers’ Compensation expenses at the cost of reduced benefits to injured workers. I never cease to be amazed that such a report, which outlines the hardship…

  • ‘Green’ Summer Reading

    As I was wandering through the airport this spring I succumbed to my one true addiction: books.  Yes, I know that a good environmentalist uses the local library, but I’m working on it….. Anyway, as always, I try to pick up something that I’ve read a review on or something…

  • Mobility pricing in Metro Vancouver must be fair for drivers and public transit commuters, says new report

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Congestion-induced delays have become the norm on Metro Vancouver roads and bridges and problems will worsen with a growing population and additional cars, says a new report on mobility pricing. Mobility pricing is a solution to the region’s transportation challenges depending on how it is…

  • Election 2011 UNSPUN: A Clock Worth Watching

    The Winnipeg Free Press (September 7 editorial: Tick, tick, tick) correctly notes that Manitoba’s debt is a non-issue with voters. Maybe Manitobans get their information from more reliable sources than the Canadian TaxPayers Association who simply throws out numbers without putting them in context. The Association’s latest initiative is a…

  • An Open Letter to Margaret Wente

    We need to think more analytically about harm reduction This is an updated form of a letter I sent to Globe & Mail columnist Margaret Wente in response to her attacks on Vancouver’s harm reduction program. Her first four columns on this topic appeared in the Globe and Mail in…

  • Tea Party North

    Last week, Travis Fast noted Terry Corcoran’s strained argument that over-regulation of banks is what ails the global economy. Terry’s next column went even further off the deep end, endorsing the hard-money libertarianism of gold bugs like Eric Sprott. Today’s column is a full-blown defence of the US Tea Party. I have the following response to the…

  • The BC Human Rights Commission and Mental Health

    In BC the human rights of people experiencing mental illness are routinely violated through the use of Section 28 under the BC Mental Health Act which is implemented when a person is thought to be a danger to themselves or others. A recent Globe and Mail article indicated that these…

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    Fast Facts: The Tough on Crime Strategy Has Not Made Our Communities Safer

    Crime rates in Canada have been steadily declining for more than a decade, yet prison populations have been increasing in recent years. Commentators have attributed this disconnection between dropping crime rates and rising incarceration numbers to the Harper government’s tough on crime strategy. Since 2006 the Harper Conservatives have implemented…

  • Dangerous Cargo

    Nuclear waste to be transported through the Great Lakes Critics on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border are slamming a plan by Bruce Power, Canada’s private nuclear generating company, to ship 3,500 tonnes of nuclear waste through Lake Huron, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario, the St. Lawrence River, and the Atlantic…

  • Back-to-Balance

    “The Government of Nova Scotia has a serious problem,” states the Back to Balance website, “and needs your help to solve it.” The serious problem, according to the government, is an impending 1.4 billion dollar deficit facing the province in 2013 unless revenues are increased and spending is curbed. The…