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Raw log exports eliminating up to 1,500 jobs in BC
Increasing exports will undermine battered North Coast economy, says think tank READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Vancouver–The BC government is forfeiting hundreds of jobs and millions of dollars in revenue by allowing a dramatic increase in raw log exports. An estimated 800 forestry jobs, or $162 million in wages and…
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BC exports raw logs, jobs and revenue
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 year, passed an Order-in-Council allowing an additional 2.7 million cubic metres of raw log exports. The increased exports are to come from the battered…
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In service of business
BC’s new plan for the environment When analyzing the full array of plans to cut, privatize, and deregulate environmental protection, there is one clear theme that emerges. In its bid to improve the province’s investment climate, the BC government has put the emphasis on facilitating access to BC’s natural resources,…
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LNG’s threat to water sustainability
By Ben Parfitt and David Hughes One glaring problem with the provincial government’s strategy to turn British Columbia into a liquefied natural gas exporting juggernaut is that it scuttles any chance B.C. has to be a climate change leader. But equally problematic is how our government’s economically dubious fixation with…
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LNG’s threat to water sustainability
One glaring problem with the provincial government’s strategy to turn British Columbia into a liquefied natural gas exporting juggernaut is that it scuttles any chance B.C. has to be a climate change leader. But equally problematic is how our government’s economically dubious fixation with gas exports jeopardizes our irreplaceable water…
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La mondialisation, les accords commerciaux et les médicaments
CLIQUEZ ICI POUR CONSULTER LE RAPPORT. Les concessions du gouvernement canadien face aux grandes sociétés pharmaceutiques multinationales, y compris le prolongement à vingt ans de leur monopole sur les nouveaux médicaments, ont eu pour effet de faire grimper en flèche le coût des ordonnances médicales, éventuellement de bloquer la création…
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Looking Back on the Vancouver-Whistler Winter Games
British Columbians no doubt feel thankful that the costs, security and other challenges facing the Sochi Winter Olympic Games far surpass what B.C. and Canada faced with the Vancouver-Whistler 2010 Games. But the 2010 Games were not without controversy and still raise the question of whether it was all worthwhile.…
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Fast Facts: Community Development Manitoba – style
For fashion trends the world looks to Milan; Copenhagen has become synonymous with urban planning; but for community development, Manitoba is increasingly the source for inspiration and cutting edge policy. Manitoba’s home-grown approach to community development is being studied by other cities looking for ways to deal with the complex…
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Cui Bono?
Who benefits from government actions? Our corporate rulers Lucius Cassius, a consul whom the people of ancient Rome revered as a wise and honest judge, was often required to adjudicate disputes involving the laws or policies of the Senate. Time and again, his first question was “Cui bono?” which can…
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November 2001: Exporting Destruction
Report says EDC is putting people and the environment at risk The Canadian government’s Export Development Corporation (EDC) is assisting eight environmentally and socially disastrous projects in the Third World, says a recent report. These are the Antamina mine in Peru, the Chamera I and II dams in India, the…
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BC’s ferry tendering sailing in wrong direction
Buying Canadian is no longer government policy–at least not in British Columbia. The BC provincial cabinet has directed the BC Ferry Corporation to initiate, for the first time in its 43-year history, a completely open international tendering process for all ferry refits and new vessel procurement. This policy shift appears…
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Our Schools/Our Selves: Fall 2001
DIRT(1) Cheap: Students for sale and the tilting of a scale Abstract This paper illustrates how parents, teachers and school administrators have been quietly and unknowingly enlisted as accomplices in the sale of children to commercial interests. This facet of the economic imperative is obscured by the siren call of…