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Showing posts with label corporate welfare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label corporate welfare. Show all posts
24 July 2011

The Politics of Public Spending

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Check the local media for the past week and you’ll see a sudden bunch of stories about the series of fire truck announcements provincial pol...
02 July 2010

When the quota of good news meets a failure to perform

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The provincial government’s business department issued a news release today crowing about an estimated increase of the province’s populatio...
24 June 2010

Public money in inflatable shelter company now hits $4 million in four years

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With a dose of $249,978 research money from the provincial government’s research and development corporation, Dynamic Air Shelters has now r...
22 June 2010

A Crown corporation by any other name

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A company that has received almost $3.5 million in federal and provincial government money since 2006 is getting another $300,000 from the ...
31 March 2010

Jobs that depend on tax money: stump of forest industry edition

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So the provincial government is pumping taxpayer cash to keep a paper mill in Corner Brook alive. Gee, like that hasn’t been done before....
21 March 2010

The Money Program

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Within the past 12 months, federal and provincial government sources have poured $2.0 million into a building expansion at Dynamic Air Shelt...
23 September 2009

Marine service facility in land-locked town gets free gift of taxpayers cash

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Rolls-Royce marine is establishing what is touted  - by the provincial government but not the company - as a $10.5 million service centre i...
22 September 2009

Public money coming for Rolls-Royce

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Paul Oram may be having trouble paying the health care bills but his predecessor, Ross Wiseman, apparently has cash for what appears to be ...