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April 1999 - Contents

	FEATURES
Laura Jones	Celebrating Earth Day: Gloomy Predictions and Rosy Realities Environmental doomsayers still claim that the world is on the brink of a major environmental calamity. Why do they still carry clout?
Elizabeth Brubaker	Privatizing Water Supply and Sewage Treatment: How Far Should We Go? In Canada, we face a number of water problems. The low prices most Canadians pay for their water do not help resolve these problems.
Filip Palda	The High Cost of Free Water Are federal and provincial concerns about bulk water exports simply the stirrings of a property grab?
Lydia Miljan	Watered Down Debate What has the debate been like so far on bulk water exports? Has the media’s attention to this issue affected public opinion?
Paul Coninx	Evaluating AirCare II BC’s AirCare program provides, at best, just over one cent’s worth of health and environmental benefit for dollar spent. Now the province is getting AirCare II.
	ARTICLES
Joel Emes	April Questions and Answers and the April Graph Who contributes to RRSPs? How much money do they shelter with these vehicles?
Chris Sarlo	Poorest of the Poor, Part II Among the poor, the real concern is not so much low income as low consumption levels.
Joel Emes & Michael Walker	Tax Burden Up 1,286 Percent Since 1961 Tax Facts 11 has just been released. The news is not good.
	EDITORIALS, ETC.
Filip Palda	The RRSP Iron Curtain
J. Clemens & J. Francis	Restrained Kudos to Mr. Broadbent
C. R. Hepburn & P. Basham	Don’t Cut Class (Size)
Martin Zelder	Learning About Canadian Health Policy… from an American?
William McArthur, M.D.	Federal Budget Offers No Cure for Ailing Health Care System
J. Clemens & F. Mihlar	Financial Sector Reform: Paul Martin Must Act Now
Karen Selick	Don’t Import this Bad US Law
Dexter Samida	The Chicken or the Egg
	Letters
Herbert Grubel	Economic Intelligence Briefs
David Gratzer	Wage Hikes are Good Politics, but Bad Economics
J. Clemens & F. Mihlar	Tax Cut for the Wealthy?
Owen Lippert	International Trade Liberalization: Canada’s Potemkin Village of Policy?

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