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The borders between art, entertainment and serious matters dissolve in dangerous ways in the world of popular high-speed communication.
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The bottom half of earners in Canada earn 22 per cent of all income yet pay only 15 per cent of all taxes.

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Residential property taxes are growing faster than real per capita income in many communities.

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The average Canadian worker now works a lot fewer hours to purchase common household items.

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Approximately 20 per cent of Canada’s GDP comes from exports to the U.S.

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B.C.’s has one of the highest overall tax rates on new investment in Canada and the developed world.

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Canada raised tariffs in the 1930s and sunk into the Great Depression.

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For my money—and for taxpayers’ money, too—“shovel worthy” is therefore a much better phrase than “shovel ready.”
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In 2014, Canadian physicians reported that patients faced an 18.2 week wait from referral by a general practitioner to receipt of treatment.

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In 2014, Vancouver residents and businesses used about 21 million gigajoules of natural gas-derived energy.