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Comparing incomparables: Forget the elusive ‘gross domestic happiness’
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinions/Editorial – Comparing incomparables: Forget the elusive ‘gross domestic happiness’ – economists should stick to facts and figures
Jul. 07, 2009.
The world recession has somehow renewed attempts to quantify qualitative experiences such as pleasure and pain. Perhaps this is a sequel to the illusion that investment risk could be finally conquered by quantifying uncertainty – a belief that helped bring about the financial meltdown.
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Longer wait for election and for EI
TheStar.com – Opinion – Longer wait for election and for EI
June 23, 2009. Gillian Steward
If anything became clear last week when Stephen Harper and Michael Ignatieff agreed they didn’t want a summer election, it was that neither one of them has ever had to apply for employment insurance.
If they had, they would not likely have sloughed off EI reform to a yet-to-be selected panel that will report back in a few months, or however long it takes to figure out what needs to be done.
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Early learning makes business sense
TheStar.com – Opinion – Early learning makes business sense
June 22, 2009. Carol Goar
There was a time when early childhood education was a fancy name for daycare. Women knew they couldn’t convince politicians to support working mothers, so they made the case that investing in children was good public policy.
Then science caught up to semantics.
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Full-day kindergarten comes into play
TheGlobeandMail.com – National – Full-day kindergarten comes into play: McGuinty proposes ambitious plan to put Ontario’s four- and five-year-olds under the same roof all day – at a cost of $1-billion
Tuesday, Jun. 16, 2009. Caroline Alphonso, Dakshana Bascaramurty and Dawn Walton
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty’s self-proclaimed role as the education premier will be tested as he embarks on an integrated full-day kindergarten and childcare program with the province facing a mounting deficit and opposition from the country’s largest teachers’ union.
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This Is What the Recession Looks Like: June, 2009
recessionrelief.ning.com – RRC listserve – This Is What the Recession Looks Like: June, 2009
June 13, 2009.
On June 11th, the Recession Relief Coalition released, “This is what the Recession Looks Like,” a research bulletin that sounds the alarm as it tracks the harsh impacts of the Recession. The release of this Bulletin coincides with the Federal government’s release of its first “report card” on its multi-billion dollar “Economic Stimulus” January budget, and its announcement in Geneva that it doesn’t need to develop a national poverty reduction strategy.
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If we’re so equal, why aren’t we happy? [Women]
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinions – If we’re so equal, why aren’t we happy? For women, the desire to have it all comes with the obligation to do it all
Jun. 12, 2009. Margaret Wente
In 1963, an angry woman named Betty Friedan published a groundbreaking book about “the problem that has no name.” In it, she described the stifled lives of women in North America – talented, creative, and increasingly educated women who were trapped in the suburbs, leading lives of quiet desperation.
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The facts on the Free Trade Agreement
NationalPost.com – FPComment – The facts on the Free Trade Agreement: Herman and Chipeur are both wrong on procurement
Posted: June 11, 2009. By Bill Dymond
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There’s more to life than GDP
TheStar.com – Opinion – There’s more to life than GDP: Canadians need a new, holistic measure of societal progress that goes beyond economics
June 10, 2009. Roy Romanow
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