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Fuelling the tax revolt: What is wrong with the NDP's anti-HST campaign
The Canadian New Democratic Party (NDP) has devoted much of its energy in recent months to opposing the implementation of the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) in Ontario and British Columbia. The new taxes came into effect on July 1, 2010. The HST merges the Goods and Services Tax (GST) with the Provincial Sales Tax (PST) in both provinces. Items covered by the GST that were previously exempt from the PST are included under the new HST.
Much of the Canadian left has been supportive of the anti-HST campaign on the grounds that consumption taxes are regressive (i.e. people pay the same rate of tax regardless of income).
BP oil spill: A Louisiana fisherman's experience
Mike Roberts, a Louisiana fisherman, speaks to an audience in Vancouver about how the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has affected his livelihood and family.
Sign the petition to keep oil supertankers off B.C.'s north coast at: http://www.notankers.ca
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Save Compassion Farm
Grounded News headed over to the island to meet up with Dirk Becker who runs Compassion Farm, and who is curently facing possable jail time for what he does…growing food. Lantzville Council is proceeding with legal action -- taking the Beckers to court to shut down their "urban" farm which is located in a semi-rural area, on a dead end road.