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Richard Shillington, Ph.D., is a statistician who specializes in the quantitative analysis of health, social and economic policy. He appears regularly before committees of the House of Commons and the Senate, and frequently provides commentaries for television, radio and newspapers on issues of taxation, human rights and social policy.

Newspeak on poverty
RRSPs can penalize lower-income workers
Why I reject our voting system and rejected my ballot
Canada's "Brain Drain" a trickle not a flood
What happened to representing the middle class?
"Little people" need not apply for Capital Gains tax cut
Dream of universal education access becomes more distant
Flat tax no help to average taxpayer
Supreme injustice?
Not all international agreements are created equal
Bafflegab battleground heats up as Harris, Chretien exchange attack ads
Brilliant spinning places welfare recipients in cottages
Poor but proud in Pakistan
Federal policy flip-flops kill politics
What I learned on my Pakistani vacation
Budget: something for everyone - with any political clout - and nothing for Canada's poorest families
Death by the rules
House Finance Committee gives more windfalls to wealthy; rotten apples to poor kids
Attn: Paul Martin - a REAL "children's budget", please
A poor measure of poverty
Are RRSPs really for you?