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$30-Billion Tax Shift
Editorial by Nicola Ross
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friend of mine in Calgary just bought a home. The neighbourhood isn’t
fancy &ndash most houses are 50-year-old utilitarian bungalows
&ndash but it’s close to the university and not far from downtown.
Although my friend’s purchase is one of the more dilapidated specimens
on her street, she paid a cool $800,000 for it. Such is the situation
in this heated-up town where I lived for 16 years. Read more…
Friend, Foe, Wonder, Peril
Invasive species are all of these.
Brendan Larson
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few years ago, I interviewed a 92-year-old Haida elder about the
effects of introduced Sitka black-tailed deer on the ecosystems of
Haida Gwaii. Something he said struck me: “I look at deer the same way
as white man and what they’ve done to us.” This comment points to a
serious limitation in our usual perception of invasive species as a
problem in themselves, rather than a symptom &ndash a riffle within
a torrent of global change brought about by our species.
Even corporate executives are geared up for a green levy.
Lawson Hunter
When
the chief executive officers from some of Canada’s most influential
corporations encourage government intervention to tackle climate
change, you know change is in the air. And in this case, the change
involves a tax shift, a green tax shift, that is…
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