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Social spending gap to favour seniors: election analysis
… the four major parties have all promised a significantly higher amount of new investment dollars by 2019/20 to Canadians over 65-years-old compared to their younger counterparts… the Conservatives will do 18 cents per person under 45 for every dollar they put into a retiree, the NDP will do 27 cents, the Liberals will be 28 cents, and the Greens will do 34 cents… “There’s lots of challenges with having to delay family planning or home ownership, the possibility of that is much less…
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, pensions, standard of living, tax, youth
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Let’s throw off the yoke of patriarchy
Pay inequity is discriminatory – period. We don’t need a fancy show committee of experts to tell us this. More study is nothing more than a stalling tactic for society and governments to confront the real core equity problem in society – patriarchy… The question is why should we underwrite injustice in a supposedly democratic society? … Patriarchy has become so ingrained in our social culture and psyche that it has become normalized and virtually invisible – even when it is blindingly obvious
Tags: featured, ideology, participation, rights, standard of living, women
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The Inequality Debate: We can do something about it
The first step is to restore the welfare state. Since 1980 there has been an unwinding of redistributive policies in OECD countries, with adverse distributional consequences… It’s one of the reasons income inequality in Canada is greater than in France, Germany or Japan. To change this involves raising taxes… based on a return to progressive income taxation… But reducing inequality is not just a matter of taxes and spending… [It’s also] the market distribution of income: what people receive in wages, interest and other forms of capital income.
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Cast your vote: think tank unveils platform to end income inequality
The user-friendly platform, available at GoodForCanada.ca, lays out a four-plank strategy to tackle income inequality, focusing on good jobs, a good safety net, good public programs, and progressive taxation… “The platform also raises the question: how can we pay for it? It outlines a tax plan that asks those who have more to contribute more, for the good of Canada. Spoiler alert: there’s not a single tax cut in our income inequality platform because that’s not how Canada will ever reduce the growing gap.”
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5 reasons we can’t ignore Indigenous families and children this election
Half of all First Nations children in Canada live in poverty… Indigenous children trail the rest of Canada’s children on practically every measure of well-being: family income, educational attainment, poor water quality, infant mortality, health, suicide, crowding and homelessness… There have been no real increases in funding for social programs on reserves since 1996… A billion dollars would lift all Indigenous children out of poverty
Tags: budget, featured, Health, housing, Indigenous, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Good for Canada: A platform to end income inequality in Canada
Seizing on the first federal election in recent history where income inequality is a hot button issue, the CCPA recently launched a platform to reduce the gap… Good for Canada… highlights the high cost of income inequality in our country by telling the personal stories of real Canadians—and gives us a way to move forward. The platform, available at GoodForCanada.ca, lays out a four-plank strategy to tackle income inequality, focusing on good jobs, a good safety net, good public programs, and progressive taxation.
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Ontario government signs political accord with First Nations Chiefs
The Ontario government has signed a political accord with the Chiefs of Ontario that Premier Kathleen Wynne says will guide relations between First Nations and the province… It affirms that First Nations have an inherent right to self-government and that the relationship with Ontario is based upon respect for that right. It also commits the signatories to work together on a range of issues, including resource benefits sharing and jurisdictional matters.
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Narrowing the inequality wage gap
Up to now, top CEOs’ salaries are routinely compared with each other – which instead of naming and shaming companies that award the stratospheric pay, has created a super-elite club of managers who can trumpet the revelations as proof of their market worth… its overall effects can only be salutary in an environment where inequality has become an economic illness… With the slashing or repealing of inheritance taxes in the wealthy OECD countries, vast salaries are now converted to legacies for heirs who can use them for powerful political and economic leverage.
Tags: economy, ideology, standard of living, tax
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Bill C-24 is wrong: There is only one kind of Canadian citizen
Bill C-24… strengthens Canadian citizenship by making it more difficult to acquire… But the law has a flip side that is much darker. It gives the government the discretion to strip the citizenship of any dual citizen convicted of terrorism, treason or spying abroad. The consequences are disturbing and unfair for Canada’s 863,000 dual nationals. They run the risk of being treated as somehow less Canadian. There is an ugly, xenophobic side to this law
Tags: ideology, immigration, multiculturalism, rights
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Addressing inequality will take much more than tax code tinkering
In most countries there has been a move to lower top income tax rates and reduced taxation of corporate profits, as well as cuts to income support programs such as unemployment insurance, welfare and public pensions… If market income inequality is allowed to inexorably rise, one can expect even more resistance by the well off to redistributive policies. This suggests that more must also be done to equalize market incomes.
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