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Ontario plans big boost to minimum wage, update of labour laws
Cabinet will soon decide on the biggest overhaul to Ontario’s labour law in a generation — raising minimum wage up to $15 an hour, boosting private sector unionization and targeting companies that rely unfairly on part-time or contract work… it could have far-reaching effects for people of all ages and all walks of life who worry about vacation time, job security and wage transparency as temporary workers are increasingly treated like second-class citizens.
Tags: economy, featured, ideology, rights, standard of living
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Time to turn inclusive innovation rhetoric into reality
… given that economies are no better than the societies in which they are embedded, it is critical that business leaders turn their attention to them. We desperately need to maximize both growth and equality in society – the consequences of not doing so are dire. DSIPs offer a venue of constructive private-public experimentation.
Tags: disabilities, economy, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Encourage seniors to keeping working
For seniors, for the economy, for all of us, the government must adapt its policies to the changing demographic reality. The steps government has already taken, both by rolling back the age of eligibility for Old Age Security and beginning to expand public pension coverage, are a good start – but only a start – toward ensuring that older workers who want to retire can.
Tags: economy, ideology, participation, pensions, standard of living
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How to fight a trade war
It’s time to disenthrall Trump from thinking his reckless behavior has no consequences… Our surest protection against epic maladministration at home, and that which is directed at us from abroad, is to deeply entrench best practices now, to enact sound policies with which even the most determined future buffoons in high places cannot tamper. The time to get moving on that is right now.
Tags: economy, globalization, standard of living
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Let’s make human rights central to a new NAFTA
What the world desperately needs is a system of global rules fair to both capital and labour. Such a system would require all World Trade Organization members to respect and ratify basic labour rights, notably the right to independent unions as defined by the International Labour Organization. Such a system would also entail an enforcement mechanism with sanctions such as those which now exist to protect corporations’ rights.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, rights, standard of living
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Basic income is an opiate for the masses, not a sustainable solution
In recent decades, the neo-liberal agenda… has created enormous amounts of wealth but not for everyone. Vast numbers of losers have also been created. A basic income would allow the neo-liberal agenda to remain intact. Job destruction could happen more easily. There would be less incentive for governments and the privileged to build a balanced economy that shrinks that wealth divide.
Tags: budget, economy, globalization, ideology, privatization
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No evidence that ‘Canada works’ in new internal free trade deal
Not only are whole sectors walled off for future negotiations (financial services, alcohol) or simply excluded (supply management) but more than half of the 329-page agreement… is taken up listing all the other exceptions insisted upon by one government or another. Even the chapters devoted to freeing trade are riddled with limitations, caveats and exemptions…
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology
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Free trade within Canada gets a boost from new deal
Critics have long complained Canada has better free trade deals with other countries than within its own borders… The centerpiece… is a framework that will help provinces and territories agree on joint regulations and harmonization of standards. “That’s going to help make Canada one of the easiest places in the world in which to do business. It’s going to make us more competitive. It’s going to create jobs,”
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, standard of living
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Trump’s ‘leaked’ NAFTA letter is a gift to Canada
Ironically, half the things the United States is demanding of Canada and Mexico (e.g. access to local government procurement, meeting international labour standards) would be on Canada’s list, too. “Transparency, efficiency and predictability,” “fair, equitable non-discriminatory access,” “eliminate artificial or trade-distorting barriers to investment.”… trade negotiations do not take place in a vacuum… Does the United States want a failed state on its southern border? Does the United States need Canada’s support here or there on the world stage for a secure and prosperous North America?
Tags: budget, economy, globalization, ideology
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Don’t blame foreign workers when the problem is locals who prefer EI over working
… between December 2015 and September 2016… 67,440 temporary foreign workers were granted access to Canada to work in areas where unemployed Canadians with relevant prior work experience lived close by. That isn’t how the system is supposed to work. The temporary foreign worker program is meant to be a last resort for employers; the EI program is intended to be a safety net, not a permanent crutch.
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, ideology, immigration, standard of living
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