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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Bill Vander Zalm and Chris Delaney will be speaking about the fight against the HST.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Bill Vander Zalm and Chris Delaney will be speaking about the fight against the HST.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Elections BC has approved a new HST petition - Link to CBC story covering this event.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:31:16 -0500</pubDate>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;BY ANDREW A. DUFFY, CANWEST NEWS SERVICE&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 14px; width: auto; line-height: 22px&quot;&gt;The implementation of a 12-per-cent harmonized sales tax in B.C. next summer will cost the tourism industry as many as 5,174 jobs and see visitor spending drop by as much as $545 million annually, according to an analysis of the tax&#039;s impact prepared by the Council of Tourism Associations.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:15:35 -0400</pubDate>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;TD Bank report examines effects of new tax&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; BY PAUL VIEIRA, THE FINANCIAL POST&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px&quot; class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;Consumers in Ontario and B.C. will see prices move up 0.7 per cent on a permanent basis due to the transition toward a harmonized sales tax, says a report released Friday from economists at Toronto-Dominion Bank.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:39:43 -0400</pubDate>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.strategicthoughts.com&quot; title=&quot;www.strategicthoughts.com&quot;&gt;www.strategicthoughts.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class=&quot;MsoPlainText&quot;&gt;HST as Federal Election Issue&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class=&quot;MsoPlainText&quot;&gt;Will Harper&#039;s minority government be able to make thechanges necessary in order to implement the HST in Ontario and BC? ConservativeMPs are doing everything possible to place responsibility for thefederal-provincial deal on the HST solely on the provinces, but it will take anamendment to a federal statute in order to implement the HST.&lt;/p&gt;
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From bclocalnews.com
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By Jeff Nagel
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Published September 18, 2009
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Thousands of B.C. residents joined forces Saturday to rail against the planned Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) and crank up the pressure on the provincial government to abandon it.
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A noon-hour rally led by former Social Credit premier Bill Vander Zalm was held outside the Vancouver Convention Centre in front of more than 3,000 raucous protesters.
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 <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:17:27 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title>BC Chamber President Says Province Will Benefit from HST</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;B.C.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <title>What is the HST?</title>
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