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Let’s Talk About How My Job at Bell Gave Me Mental Health Issues and No Benefits
… the concept of raising awareness, reducing the stigma and giving millions of dollars to mental health initiatives is great and important… What isn’t so great is how Bell’s failure to acknowledge how it participates in the systemic problems affecting the mental health of its own staff. If I needed to take a sick day for a cold or a panic attack, I would lose a day’s pay. No benefits… For many, casual, contract and hourly work is a necessary stepping stone or means to pay basic bills, especially when layoffs and closures continue to mount.
Tags: disabilities, economy, Health, ideology, mental Health, standard of living
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A better deal – for Canada, the U.S. and Europe
The Europeans’ concern has to do with the process for investment arbitration, and the quality of the adjudicators selected to render decisions… a permanent investment-court system is likely to mean “greater uniformity of jurisprudence and a greater measure of public confidence.” Fixing CETA in this way would respond to critics of the deal, while improving it.
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, jurisdiction, standard of living
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Shovel-ready economic stimulus? That’s employment insurance
… the most shovel-ready and targeted fiscal stimulus is employment insurance. Meaningful infrastructure spending can take months or years to get off the ground, but unemployed workers get (and spend) EI benefits within weeks… Increasing access to benefits will make the stimulus more effective and equitable. The Liberals’ EI election promises aren’t scheduled to take effect until January, 2017, but some would be straightforward to implement now.
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Why outdated thinking means Canada spends too much money on policing
… dozens of best practices that have allowed police departments around the world to reduce staffing while increasing the effectiveness of their patrols… it makes no sense having an armed, trained police officer earning $100,000 a year directing traffic, investigating bylaw infractions, typing up notes from a taped interview, providing courthouse security, or doing any number of jobs that are below their pay grade.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, featured, ideology, standard of living
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Ottawa looks to speed up EI reforms as job losses mount in West
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s mandate letter to Ms. Mihychuk suggests significant changes are coming to the EI program. The Employment Minister has been asked to undertake “a broad review of the EI system.”Specific changes the government is looking at include reducing the wait time for new recipients from two weeks to one week and working with labour unions to fund training facilities.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, participation, standard of living
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EU quietly asks Canada to rework trade deal’s thorny investment clause
The investor-to-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanism Canada negotiated on CETA was consistent with other deals… But critics point to how expensive things can get for taxpayers when corporations sue governments for interfering with trade. Americans have proven particularly skilled at winning, or dragging out, these disputes. And that’s the problem… Anti-American suspicions have fuelled an anti-trade movement… in key countries like Germany and France.
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, ideology, privatization, rights
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Ontario not facing ‘debt wall,’ says study of province’s fiscal health
“The Wynne government was elected with an activist mandate, yet it has always allowed concerns about debt and deficits to hamstring that agenda… Part of the debt increase is due to the changes in accounting rules, not a result of profligate public spending (which is, per capita, the lowest in Canada)”… the province’s economy grew at an annualized rate of 3.5. per cent in the third quarter of 2015… with household spending, business investment, and net exports all contributing to the overall increase
Tags: budget, economy, globalization, ideology, standard of living, tax
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Educate employers on responsibilities to workers
… inspections of temporary work agencies in 2015 and 2013 that found three-quarters of those audited had broken regulations in the employment act… not paying employees overtime, public holiday or vacation pay – or even their basic wages… Either three-quarters of companies that provide precarious employment are knowingly breaking the law, or they are unaware of all the regulations… the most vulnerable workers… 52 per cent of workers in the GTA and Hamilton region — are paying a price.
Tags: crime prevention, disabilities, economy, Health, ideology, rights, standard of living
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How should Canada see the TPP? Depends on how we see the world
… to ensure that Canadian patent rights are fully protected in parts of the world where legal systems are less mature. That’s what TPP does… Canada could, and should, be a global powerhouse in dairy – like tiny New Zealand. Instead, dairy, poultry and egg producers fight for the right to remain small… critics take the standard defensive view, a limited zero-sum analysis by looking only at the concessions and ignoring the gains and potential benefits.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, standard of living
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Keys to developing a domestic growth strategy for Canada
The current personal and corporate tax systems have become too complex and inefficient… This means moving to a model that depends less on income taxes and more on consumption taxes… In 2014-15, personal income taxes accounted for 48.1 per cent of total revenue and corporate income taxes 14.0 per cent. GST tax revenue accounted for 11.1 per cent of total revenue. This mix needs to be changed.
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