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VIDEO: Guess who wants “carmageddon” over public transit in Vancouver?

Meet the group leading the charge against improving public transit in Canada. The right-wing Canadian Taxpayers Federation has done everything but come out with torches and pitchforks in the current Vancouver transit referendum — becoming the public voice and face of the ‘No’ side, positioned against a 0.5% sales tax to improve transit in the Metro […]

B.C. gives juicy tax cut to the rich even though they’re already the wealthiest in Canada

Maybe Robin Hood needs to retire to Victoria, B.C. — just to help even things out a little. The B.C. Liberal government is giving a tax break to the province’s richest residents — even though B.C. is already home to the highest concentration of wealth in Canada. Conveniently, those hikes provide a key source of revenue in […]