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BC unions have ramped up their efforts to increase BC’s minimum wage to $10 an hour. Unfortunately, last week B.C. Labour Minister Murray Coell stated that the Liberal government would consider an increase to the provincial minimum wage. B.C. Federation of Labour head Jim Sinclair cheered the move. NDP leader Carole James, highlighting her pedestrian knowledge of economics, declared that an increase in the minimum wage is “actually an economic stimulus.” If Mr. Sinclair, Ms James, and BC unions are successful, their efforts will rob young and unskilled workers of the chance to participate in the labour market and gain the skills and experience they need to increase their incomes. Read more... (143 words, estimated 34 secs reading time)
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Yesterday was one of those days when I listened to someone – in this case, a respected theologically conservative seminary professor – lament what he called the fear-mongering among conservatives about Obama and the left. And he sounds so reasonable in his warning. Then today I read an article from yesterday’s Financial Post, titled Barack Obama’s top 10 job killers, and I’m reminded through a rationale summary of economic issues just how illiterate, extreme and dangerous Obama and his fellow travellers are. There are right ways and wrong ways to be afraid, so some scare-mongering on the right is probably not helpful. I’m not anticipating the end of history, for example. But there is much to fear, as long as that fear mobilizes you to action rather than paralyzing you. Read more... (603 words, estimated 2:25 mins reading time)
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