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Baby Boomers, please don’t retire just yet
… An across-the-board increase in the age of eligibility for government retirement programs will hit hardest at poor Canadians and Canadians in physically demanding occupations that aren’t easy to carry on beyond age 65… A better strategy is to make CPP and OAS far more flexible – so that the later you retire, the greater the benefits… All kinds of experienced people in their 60s and 70s want to keep working, whether part-time or full-time.
Tags: economy, featured, participation, pensions, standard of living
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How to temper protectionism in Trump’s trade world
… our shared interest in infrastructure and job creation, may provide a unique opportunity to explore a much-needed change in a technical area of international trade known as anti-dumping – a change that considers the impact of anti-dumping action on workers and consumers on both sides of the border… The practical effect would be to reduce the duty to one that only corresponds to harm suffered, not more – a so-called “lesser duty” in the parlance of trade law.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, standard of living
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Canada’s participation rate could be the populist ‘canary in the coal mine’
what steps can the government take to support jobs and opportunity? … a pro-growth agenda that enables investment and job creation across the country… including low, competitive taxation, sound public finances, limited and predictable regulations… and key public investments in human capital and basic infrastructure… education and career training reforms, more flexible labour-market rules (including for working mothers), an expansion of the Working Income Tax Benefit, wage subsidies and work-sharing for people with disabilities
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Table scraps for the poor won’t end poverty
Hunger is what happens as a result of privation and poverty. Treating hunger through society’s waste compounds the indignity of hunger, and points us away from more permanent solutions… The millions of people going without food will only change with decent, liveable wages, affordable housing and strong social supports. These public policies can help people to live with health and dignity .
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Report on struggling news business is responsible, high-minded, and profoundly wrong
Most of the industry’s problems are self-inflicted, a series of bad choices in response to admittedly massive changes. But even if that were not the case, there is nothing whatever to prevent readers from paying for what we produce, if they so chose. They are simply choosing not to do so… My concern is not that such a fund would be partisan, or enforce a government line. I worry, rather, how it would affect our thinking… toward a certain vision of society, and of journalism.
Tags: ideology, participation, privatization, standard of living
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What are we talking about when we talk about social innovation?
… social innovation: undertakings that don’t neatly fit into conventional boxes, but deliver multiple social or environment benefits and even profits, all while holding out the potential for the sort of scalability that promises broader transformation… what are we talking about when we talk about social innovation? – could re-shape the relationship between governments, private investors, and civil society for a generation to come.
Tags: economy, featured, ideology, participation, philanthropy, standard of living
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Canada is doing well … but we could do so much better
I suggest (once again) a flexible HST — raise it on elective spending (luxury goods, complex financial transactions and the mere velocity of money in financial markets) to eliminate the deficit, and reduce taxes on small personal and corporate incomes to ease the conditions of the most vulnerable and provide affordable stimulus… and shift stimulus from the sterility of traditional welfare, other than where there is no practical alternative because of the acute needs of the seriously disadvantaged…
Tags: budget, economy, Health, jurisdiction, poverty, privatization, standard of living, tax
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Time for a new narrative on NAFTA
NAFTA captures the worst features of corporate-led, profit-driven globalization — providing transnational businesses unconditional access to markets with no requirement to invest where they sell and the right to scour a continent in search of the cheapest labour, weakest regulations and biggest tax breaks… It’s a set of rules designed to ensure the benefits of trade are enjoyed mainly by global investment bankers, multinational corporations and the privileged class. Job creation is an added (albeit secondary) benefit, but not the likely outcome.
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Play the Trump cards right, and Canada’s auto sector will benefit
By stopping the migration of industrial capital toward Mexico, Mr. Trump will actually help Canada’s auto industry – and other manufacturing sectors equally damaged by NAFTA… instead of trying to defend a flawed deal that has hurt working people in all three countries, Canada should enthusiastically endorse the principle that trade must go both ways – and take advantage of this opportunity to imagine a different way of managing globalization.
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, ideology, standard of living
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How Canada could actually become a world leader in pension innovation
Bill C-27, legislation to facilitate the offering of target-benefit (TB) pension plans… [which] integrates the best elements of the traditional DB and DC plans: an explicit target pension benefit; a recognition that long-term compounding of investment returns makes the target benefit affordable; and it offers fair and sustainable risk-pooling and clearly spelled-out property rights and obligations among the employer, employees, pensioners and the pension-management organization.
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