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OCUFA stands in support of legal challenge to Ford government’s attack on workers’ rights
Thursday, January 16th, 2020
The Protecting a Sustainable Public Sector for Future Generations Act fundamentally undermines the constitutionally protected right to free and fair collective bargaining, threatens pay equity and benefits for marginalized workers, and will erode labour relations in the public sector… the Ford government has consistently rejected opportunities to lead constructive conversations about the future of education in Ontario.
Tags: budget, ideology, rights
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Stop celebrating capitalism and start celebrating sanitation for saving humanity
Thursday, January 16th, 2020
… things only truly got better… after ordinary people won the right to vote and to join unions that pushed for higher wages and helped secure public access to health care, education and housing… over the fierce objections of capitalists… it’s not capitalism but rather the forces fighting to curb capitalism’s worst excesses — unions and progressive political movements — that have improved people’s lives.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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In search of a less partisan approach: Let’s use Conservative-agreed upon climate targets
Monday, January 6th, 2020
… nearly every province in Canada has cut emissions consistent with the Copenhagen goal. It is only due to increased emissions in Alberta and Saskatchewan that Canada is not on course to meet the cuts promised by the Alberta team in Copenhagen… The start of the new decade would be a good time to accept that we have a target, a national commitment
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Capitalism is the greatest force for human advancement that we have
Friday, December 27th, 2019
… four-fifths of starvation-level world poverty had been eradicated since the 1970s… What happened? It was globalization… It was free trade… It was property rights and the rule of law… I am not a radical. I will not tell you that we need no regulations. I will not say that we do not need reform… Find better ways to regulate it. Tax people more… If we let capitalism thrive, if we share it… then we can lift up the next two billion people together.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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Never mind the GDP. How are the people doing?
Saturday, December 14th, 2019
“Economic growth accompanied by worsening social outcomes is not success”… the movement toward a well-being index is a long-term, intergenerational program – completely in contrast to the short-term political frenzy that comes with chasing certain economic goals. As Ms. Sturgeon said, GDP “values activity in the short term that boosts the economy, even if that activity is hugely damaging to the sustainability of our planet in the longer term.”
Tags: economy, featured, ideology, participation, standard of living
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Canada should enforce its own labour standards
Monday, December 2nd, 2019
Provinces like Ontario let employers avoid labour standards, such as the right to vacation pay, by pretending that their workers are self-employed, independent contractors. Provinces like Ontario have also deliberately not kept their labour laws in sync with the requirements of the new economy – one characterized by franchising, digital employment and part-time work… [They] don’t enforce the labour standards that do exist. Citing budget constraints and an aversion to red tape, they cut back workplace inspections and respond inadequately to real complaints.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, jurisdiction, rights, standard of living
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The great transformation: How to achieve a ‘Green New Deal’ for Canada
Sunday, November 17th, 2019
Key sectors of the economy – information and communications technology; power and electricity; transportation and logistics; real estate – are fast decoupling from fossil fuels in favour of ever-cheaper solar and wind energies and the accompanying clean technologies, green business practices and processes of circularity and resilience that are the central features of a Green New Deal… Canada needs to establish a bold new economic vision if it is to adapt and prosper.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, participation, standard of living
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Demographics and disruption demands new skills in Canada’s health-care sector
Saturday, November 16th, 2019
… health care can provide a career path for one million Canadians who are currently at risk of losing their jobs to automation… Properly designed, this mix of technology, skills and innovative management can soften the landfall of the silver tsunami, and further prevent the cresting cost of health care from overwhelming government budgets. In this new machine age, our society’s health will depend on it.
Tags: economy, Health, participation, standard of living
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Uncomfortable climate change realities from an energy executive
Friday, November 15th, 2019
… Canadians have the ingenuity and know-how to develop our resources while advancing environmental protection, reducing the carbon intensity of our energy products, enriching the communities where we live and work, and working respectfully with local citizens and Indigenous peoples, all while generating national and local economic growth. The export of liquefied natural gas from B.C. is a fine example of this.
Tags: economy, globalization, participation, standard of living
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The Happy, Healthy Capitalists of Switzerland
Sunday, November 10th, 2019
Capitalist to its core, Switzerland imposes lighter taxes on individuals, consumers and corporations than the Scandinavian countries do. In 2018 its top income tax rate was the lowest in Western Europe at 36 percent… A pragmatic country can have a business-friendly environment alongside social equality, if it gets the balance right.
Tags: economy, ideology, standard of living, tax
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