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July 1st: Tenants Have No Reason To Celebrate
Each year, Canada Day coincides with Moving Day in Quebec. For the luckiest in the lot, the celebrations include heat and sweat, heavy boxes, cumbersome household appliances, laughs with pals, beer and pizza. However, still too often, when leases expire families end up on the street, unable to find adequate and…
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Our Schools/Our Selves Summer 2003
Private dollars in Canada’s “public” colleges and universities: Who really pays? This spring the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives released its annual guide to Canadian post-secondary education—a study comparing the provinces’ commitment to higher education and ranking them accordingly. This is the fourth year of Missing Pieces: An alternative guide…
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Fish farms no cure for BC’s economic ills
There is a mistaken perception among many British Columbians that BC’s wild fish stocks are dying and that we need salmon aquaculture to replace the jobs and economic benefits they provide. With all the attention being paid to fish farms lately, some may even think that BC’s salmon farming industry…
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Why You Should Care About Austerity
Québec’s government has radically reduced its spending growth because it has decided that we need to tighten our belts collectively. Since spending growth in some areas of healthcare and education is inevitable in order to maintain certain services, drastic cuts must be made elsewhere. The government maintains that it will not impact…
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The P3 approach to financing transit projects will cost us more
It is more than a little mischievous for the provincial government and regional politicians to welcome the private sector contributing to the massive cost of the transportation infrastructure planned for the province in the coming years. The private sector does not ‘contribute’ — it invests. And the amount it invests…
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March 2003: Lula Bows to Wall Street
Brazil’s new “leftist” President moves right to keep U.S. happy Forty years after Brazil’s last leftist government was overthrown in a U.S.-backed military coup, the left appeared to have regained power there on January 1 when Luiz Inacio (“Lula”) da Silva, the candidate for the left-leaning Workers’ Party (PT), was…
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Poverty Reduction Act tabled by Opposition in the BC Leg
The following news release was issued today by the BC Poverty Reduction Coalition: Opposition proposes BC Poverty Reduction and Economic Inclusion Act: Now is the time for bi-partisan collaboration in addressing the root causes of poverty (British Columbia) Today in the BC Legislature, the Official Opposition (MLA Michelle Mungall) introduced…
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30 Reasons for Better Pay
Watch the video below and click here to visit CCPA-Ontario’s Working For A Living website—a storytelling project to convey the value of a decent minimum wage and a living wage. 30 Reasons for Better Pay
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Olympics won’t bring employment boom
Bid Committee’s estimates overstate likely impact CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) The Vancouver 2010 Olympic Bid Corporation’s claims that hosting the Winter Games will generate an employment boom are wildly exaggerated and not born out by the experience of previous host cities. David Green, a Professor of…
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How many will vote in the November 2014 local government elections?
In BC’s last local government elections in 2011 less than 30% of people bothered to vote. CivicInfoBC has a handy list of turnout information for all of our local governments here. I was curious about how this compared to local election turnout in other provinces. I don’t have turnout information…
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