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"B.C. Policy Perspectives" is the web log of Mark Crawford, a political scientist and writer who is currently an Assistant Professor at Athabasca University.
This blog is linked to BOURQUE NEWSWATCH, THE TYEE, and POLICY.CA. Check them out!!
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What Should an Auto Company Bailout Look Like?
In exchange for government aid, the Big Three's creditors, shareholders, and executives should be required to accept losses as large as they'd endure under Bankruptcy protection, and the CAW should agree to some across-the-board wage and benefit cuts...
3 views | aggregated: 4 days 6 hours ago
topics: unions
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Another Plug for Bob Rae as Liberal Leader
It's the delegates, stupid . When I appeared on CBC Radio's Daybreak program on the morning of Monday Dec.4 to read the entrails of the Liberal Leadership Convention, I had to admit that I was slightly surprised by the results. I shouldn't have...
5 views | aggregated: 5 days 22 hours ago
topics: business, candidate, economy, employment, federal-government
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What Price Budget-Balancing? Note the P3 Dimension
The federal government is on record as saying 'the time for study is over, this is the time for action' when it comes to Public-Private Partnerships (P3s). Yet a great deal of the research that has been done is ambivalent about the value of P3s, whic...
3 views | aggregated: 5 days 22 hours ago
topics: federal-government, political, unions
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Re: Carbon Taxes, including ones on gasoline: I TOLD YOU SO
Now that gas is back down to a dollar per litre, and no doubt that worrisome backlog of RVs, SUVs and snowmobiles are again moving off of car lots, and people are breathing a sigh of relief at being able to heat their homes for the winter without und...
11 views | aggregated: 4 weeks 2 days ago
topics: ndp, tax, taxes
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A Pragmatic Pluralist Response to Daniels & Trebilcock, Rethinking the Welfare State: The Prospects for Government by Voucher.
AbstractThis paper seeks to develop several observations and arguments made in my review of Daniels' and Trebilcock's book, which was published in Canadian Public Policy in 2007. Among the factors adduced that could limit the use of tied demand-side...
21 views | aggregated: 7 weeks 4 days ago
topics: health-care, liberal, ndp, political, politics
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How to Rate Canada's Team Performance in the Olympic Games
There was a lot of fretting about Canada's performance during the first week of the Olympics. It seemed that Canada was getting a lot of 4th and 5th place finishes, often missing the podium by the narrowest of margins. Now that the medals are startin...
12 views | aggregated: 13 weeks 2 days ago
topics: olympic-games, olympics
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How to Think about the Recent Row Over Bureaucratic Pay Raises
It is no coincidence that every time I take a summer vacation the BC government announces a major pay raise for top officials and the Opposition deplores it. It is August and the Olympics are on, so the Games begin, in more ways than one.Just over a ...
28 views | aggregated: 14 weeks 4 days ago
topics: bc-government, elected, employment, health-care, mla
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NDP Affirmative Action A Poor Substitute for BC-STV--but it's Better than Nothing
The NDP's new policy of restricting the first nomination of a retiring incumbent's constituency to female candidates is unlikely to improve the party's prospects of recruiting 'star' candidates that will help it win the next general election in B.C. ...
32 views | aggregated: 14 weeks 6 days ago
topics: elected, election, liberal, liberals, mla
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NDP Affirmative Action A Poor Substitute for BC-STV --but it's Better than Nothing
The NDP's new policy of restricting the first nomination of a retiring incumbent's constituency to female candidates is unlikely to improve the party's prospects of recruiting 'star' candidates that will help it win the next general election in B.C. ...
22 views | aggregated: 14 weeks 6 days ago
topics: elected, election, liberal, liberals, mla
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Gassy Jack
"Gassy Jack" by The Evaporators (SOCAN). Video directed by Jason Margolis from the CD/LP &...
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When Jesse Was Born
Explores the turbulent, sometimes painful, and often humorous lives of one blue-collar family as the...
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A Piece of Glass
With the 2010 Olympics rapidly approaching, many people are concerned about the issue of homelessnes...
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active: 2 hours 47 min ago |
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