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Submission to Law Amendments on BILL NO. 262: Interim Residential Rental Increase Cap Act
Submitted April 3rd, 2023, by Catherine Leviten-Reid and Christine Saulnier Download 296.86 KB4 pages Before the emergency pandemic cap and temporary extensions, Nova Scotia had been without rent controls since they were eliminated in 1993 when the province faced vacancy rates as high as 12%.[i] Due to the abolishment of…
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The real reason the BC government is spending $9 billion on Site C
From a lookout high atop a windswept bluff, the scale of work already underway at Site C is daunting. Large tracts of boreal forest logged. Vast amounts of topsoil stripped away for a trailer city to house hundreds of workers. Gravel from the fish-bearing river excavated to build a roadbed…
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Reciprocal but not optimal
CCPA comments on the government’s reciprocal procurement proposals This spring, Global Affairs Canada sought advice on the development of a reciprocal procurement policy that would “reduce access to Canadian federal procurement opportunities for foreign suppliers, goods, and services from countries that do not provide a comparable level of access to…
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Fast Facts: A Made-in-Manitoba Tragedy of the Commons
In February, a provincial news release about changes to agricultural crown advised that “The Manitoba government has launched a consultation focused on agricultural Crown lands, to ensure upcoming policy changes reflect the views of the livestock industry while improving fairness and transparency in the system […]”. How will these changes…
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Leaked data reveals new threat to BC’s old growth forests
BREAKING: officials in the Ministry of Forests have been working on a map that radically departs from the recommendations of a panel appointed by the provincial government to advise it on how to protect British Columbia’s imperiled old growth forests.
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Unlucky, lazy, or just female? Why there aren’t more women in the top 100
Imagine finding $7.96 million in your stocking on Christmas morning. For Canada’s top 100 CEOs, that happy day has arrived. These 100 Canadians earn more than 99.9% of the working population of Canada.[1] But if you are woman, odds are you are not on that lovely list. Not now, not ever. It…
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Keeping green energy local and public
The Ontario Green Energy Act was a creative effort to reduce the impacts of climate change and revitalize a faltering provincial economy. Though the Ontario government missed a self-imposed 2013 target of 50,000 new jobs, evidence shows the policy has attracted new manufacturing to the province while creating permanent employment…
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Foreign trade issues playing out in BC
Last week Premier Christy Clark took the unprecedented step of promising there would be public consultation regarding the Province’s position on the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between Canada and the European Union. If this really happens it would be an important opportunity. The current government has never allowed…
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Climate change and energy issues in the 2017 BC election platforms
From the fracking fields and Site C dam in BC’s northeast to an LNG terminal and Kinder Morgan’s pipeline and tanker expansion in the southwest, energy issues should figure prominently in BC’s 2017 election campaign. Climate change, the result of all that pollution from dirty energy development here and elsewhere,…
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Five things to know about the Canadian Free Trade Agreement
Late last week, federal, provincial and territorial governments jointly celebrated the conclusion of a new internal trade deal they’re calling the Canadian Free Trade Agreement. The CFTA replaces the Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT), which was completed in 1995 and updated a half-dozen times since to respond to business complaints…
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Straightjacket
CETA’s Constraining Effects on Ontario This report details the ways in which the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) could accelerate Ontario’s industrial decline and weaken the province’s economic future. The report finds that the trade deal could result in as many as 70,000 job losses in Ontario and would…
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28 years of waiting for safer construction sites
Anniversary of Bentall Tower deaths highlights need for worker involvement in safety management Twenty-eight years ago today, four construction workers plunged to their deaths when the flyform panel they were working on fell from the 36th floor of the Bentall Tower IV in downtown Vancouver. Every year, construction workers, industry…
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