Environment and sustainability
Inside this issue:
The Great BC Tax Cut Giveaway
An Investment Strategy for BC's Resource Sector
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Trade - A British Columbia Perspective
After MacMillan Bloedel: How will Merger-Mania affect British Columbia?
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The Ebb and Flow of Environmental Policy in BC
Softwood Lumber and the Failure of Free Trade
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Spending cuts are the wrong choice for BC
Reckless and Unnecessary: BC's January 17 budget and job cuts announcement
In Service of Business: BC's New Plan for the Environment
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Beyond the Staples Economy
BC Exports Raw Logs, Jobs and Revenue
(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 benefits, for BC's hardest hit communities are currently being lost due to these exports from public land--a figure that may increase to 1,500 jobs and $306 million in wages for the next three years.
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Who's Cutting Classes: Untangling the Spin about K-12 Education in BC
Are Welfare Time Limits Constitutional?
BC's Incredible Shrinking Environment Minister
BC's Budget: Balanced Fiscally not Socially
Vancouver--A new economic study shows that industrial salmon aquaculture will deliver no or few new jobs in BC, even if the industry doubles in size. What's more, the industry produces relatively few jobs and minimal economic benefits to the provincial economy right now, according to the CCPA study.