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It’s time for a massive reset of capitalism
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2020
The Great Reset agenda would have three main components. The first would steer the market toward fairer outcomes… The second… would ensure that investments advance shared goals, such as equality and sustainability… The third and final priority… is to harness the innovations of the Fourth Industrial Revolution to support the public good, especially by addressing health and social challenges.
Tags: economy, Health, ideology, participation, standard of living
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What COVID-19 has taught us about the nature of the way we work, and what we must do to fix it for the safety and betterment of us all
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2020
… the important lessons of this pandemic, which is people doing even the most humble jobs in society — the cleaners, the care aides and the retail clerks — actually have a critical role in public health and public safety, and we have to recognize that and start to value that properly.” … “A key ingredient in building a better future for work after the COVID-19 pandemic must be a stronger role for mechanisms of voice, representation and bargaining power for workers in all industries and all statuses,”
Tags: economy, Health, ideology, participation, rights, standard of living
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Engineering a ‘green recovery’ is a terrible idea
Monday, June 1st, 2020
The Liberals… should resist the temptation to design a conventional economic stimulus package until it is absolutely clear that one is necessary. As for any planned green recovery, they should avoid costly policies that involve picking winners and rely instead on a rising carbon price to do its job.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, standard of living, tax
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What Kind of Economic Recovery do Canadians Want?
Friday, May 22nd, 2020
Canadians, by a 2 to 1 margin, want governments to spend whatever is required to rebuild and stimulate the economy, even if it means running large deficits for the foreseeable future… Building Canada’s ability to produce key products like food and medical supplies domestically… Investing in strengthening the health system, including universal public pharmacare… Not letting richer Canadians off the hook for contributing their fair share… Helping people who need it the most…
Tags: economy, featured, Health, poverty, privatization, standard of living, tax
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We must ensure the post-COVID world does not fall prey to socialism
Wednesday, May 20th, 2020
There is a titanic political struggle about to come. The right must start thinking about how to fight it… It will be a conflict in which the natural supporters of free enterprise as the foundation of human progress, and fiscal responsibility as the bedrock of a confident economy, will suddenly find themselves on the back foot… if people are left to turn only to socialist ideas in the wake of these terrible weeks, today’s tragedies will turn into the lifelong torment of tomorrow.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, privatization
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Ontarians getting income support aren’t gaming the system
Wednesday, May 13th, 2020
The suggestion that Canadians are choosing not to work — and not simply out of a job because of, you know, a global pandemic — seems to imply that folks would rather take money from the government than put in an honest day’s work. The real problem isn’t that $2,000 might disincentivize people from looking for work. The real problem is how people can live on that amount, considering, for example, that the average rent in Canada, as of March, was $1,842.
Tags: ideology, participation, poverty
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Child care is essential to our economic recovery
Tuesday, May 12th, 2020
Even before the pandemic there wasn’t enough regulated child care, and in most communities it was far from affordable. This is the time to change that. Government funding for child care provides direct jobs for women, who have suffered higher job loses and reduced hours in the pandemic, and it enables other women to rejoin the workforce… How Ottawa and the provinces move forward will be evidence of whether governments have learned from this crisis…
Tags: child care, economy, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, women
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Canadians need child-care benefits to withstand a COVID-19 recession
Monday, May 11th, 2020
… our national child-care support program – the Child Care Expense Deduction (CCED) – has two flaws that will make it unsuitable for an uneven economic recovery, as predicted for Canada, as well as for primary caregivers with school-aged kids at home… The CCED must be claimed by the lower-income spouse and the amount deducted cannot exceed two-thirds of their income… As a result, the CCED is stingy for low-income families and significantly more generous for higher-income families…
Tags: child care, economy, ideology, participation, standard of living, tax
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Pandemic proves value of guaranteed incomes
Saturday, May 9th, 2020
We know that we will emerge from this crisis with higher levels of unemployment than we have seen in two generations. We should be prepared for a winter ahead into which millions of Canadians will be headed broke, unemployed and close to despair… It might lead to the most transformational changes in today’s rich but increasingly divided and unequal economies since Bismarck invented the public pension system, nearly 140 years ago.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, ideology, mental Health, participation, poverty, standard of living, tax
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A progressive approach to COVID-19 recovery
Sunday, May 3rd, 2020
a COVID-19 recovery strategy, governed by progressive principles and values, would look something like the following : 1. Prioritize the needs of people… 2. Reinforce people’s economic and social rights… 3. Public investment… 4. Transition to greater national self-sufficiency in some sectors… 5. Spend what it takes… In implementing all of the above, dogmatism should be avoided.
Tags: budget, economy, housing, ideology, participation, standard of living
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