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There are more doctors that are women, but gender equity remains elusive
Wednesday, October 9th, 2019
… until we better support women in their roles as mothers and physicians, gender equality in medicine will remain elusive and too much of the money and effort we put into training doctors will be lost because we refuse to acknowledge that medicine is no longer a boy’s club.
Tags: Health, ideology, participation, women
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Where is the big idea in this election?
Monday, October 7th, 2019
… what would happen if our parties were focused not just on giving things to the middle class, but instead giving something for the middle class to believe in? Some say national pharmacare is just that: a vision for a changed society in which no Canadian goes without the medication she or he needs.
Tags: economy, Health, housing, ideology, participation, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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There’s something more threatening than Trudeau’s blackface
Monday, September 30th, 2019
Bill 21 in Quebec… restricts what job you can have based on your faith… There are those who say that this is about religious neutrality. Make no mistake. It is not. This is a law that targets three groups of people: Muslim women who cover their heads, baptized Sikhs and Jewish men who wear a yarmulke… What this ban says is that people of certain faiths, and only these faiths, can’t be trusted to do their jobs.
Tags: immigration, multiculturalism, participation, rights
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Ottawa willfully discriminated against First Nations children. Silence is no longer an option
Wednesday, September 11th, 2019
Greater numbers of Canadians are beginning to see the overwhelming evidence of federal government discrimination against First Nations children and are demanding action… Enough is enough. After 112 years, Canada’s piecemeal approach to equity is a proven failure. Now is the time for a comprehensive plan.
Tags: budget, child care, Health, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, rights, standard of living, youth
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Canada’s largest companies could easily eliminate pension deficits, but choose shareholder payouts instead: Report
Sunday, September 1st, 2019
”Year after year, companies are bringing in excess income, and year after year they decide to pay that out to shareholders instead of settling their pension obligations” … Most of the 10 companies with the largest pension deficits pay out far more annually to shareholders than the value of a one-time payment to eliminate their pension liability.
Tags: economy, ideology, pensions, standard of living
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It’s not an ‘affordability crisis,’ it’s a class conflict
Friday, August 30th, 2019
It’s not an affordability crisis, it’s a class conflict. It requires redistribution of wealth, not population… But they pin it on affordability, as if it’s a virus that calls for bed rest, rather than on the rich and their agenda since the 1980s, starting with with the panic over “deficits,” a word that came out of nowhere, too, so that public spending had to be slashed and taxes cut since “it’s your money and you should keep it” — as if you can build your own schools and public transit, once you’ve got a few more bucks in pocket.
Tags: economy, ideology, participation, standard of living
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How does the Canadian government spend your tax dollars?
Thursday, August 22nd, 2019
“Elections are dangerous time for taxpayers because the politicians will promise to spend, and the danger is they don’t explain how they’re going to pay for it,” Wudrick said. Those promises that require extra revenue would often lead to debt, which means future taxes or cuts in services for Canadians. A good question for the candidates, Wudrick suggested, would be: “how are you going to pay?”
Tags: budget, economy, jurisdiction, tax
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The road to real reconciliation will be paved by Canada’s youth
Monday, August 5th, 2019
While Canadian society has advanced on a range of issues – retiring a racist immigration policy in the 1960s, making substantial strides toward gender equality, embracing gay rights – the treatment of Indigenous peoples has been an area of conspicuous inaction. As with other significant movements of the past half-century, young people may now be preparing to show the way forward.
Tags: ideology, immigration, Indigenous, multiculturalism, participation, youth
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In Canada, the gap between the rich and poor remains stable
Wednesday, July 17th, 2019
… fewer people are climbing up the ladder into the next class — especially people in lower-income brackets. But while fewer people are getting ahead, they are also not falling behind much. Despite all the hand-wringing about worsening inequality and the rich getting richer while the poor get poorer, Canada’s income picture is one of stability, with incremental progress for some.
Tags: economy, participation, standard of living
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Governments can afford to make student debt disappear. So why don’t they?
Thursday, July 11th, 2019
In 2017-18, the federal government wrote off $6.8 billion in loans. The largest portion of that was $2.6 billion given to Chrysler after the economic crash in 2009… There is at least $14.6 billion per year estimated by the CRA that is withheld by wealthy Canadians. Recovering that money and giving it to Canadians to pay for their higher education would not only be popular, it would also redistribute wealth in an important way.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, ideology, participation, standard of living, youth
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