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Entries Tagged as 'Municipalities'

Growing support for cities to adopt living wage

November 16th, 2011 · · Comments Off · Employment & labour, Municipalities, Poverty, inequality & welfare

New developments since my recent post calling on municipalities to lead the way on adopting living wage policies: First, over just over 100 candidates have responded to the Open Letter issued by the Living Wage for Families campaign, covering almost every Lower Mainland municipality. Almost all have expressed support for this proposal or at least [...]

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Corporations are people too

January 31st, 2010 · · 3 Comments · Electoral reform, Municipalities, Taxes

Advocates of democratic electoral reform are really out of step. Ideas like proportional representation and advertising spending limits are so retro, so 2004. The fashionable electoral reform idea this year is to give corporations a real say. It’s time for individual citizens to share their electoral democracy with corporations to give meaning to those old [...]

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