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Delays and fees equal discrimination, law prof alleges in complaint
Sunday, April 3rd, 2011
April 2, 2011
“The Government of Canada decides how many immigrants and what type of immigrants, should be permitted to come to Canada each year. This decision is based on consideration of short and long term needs. The economy, social fabric of Canada and demographics of population are just a few examples… To deal with the huge backlog of applicants – there are currently 147,769 parents and grandparents waiting to fill 11,200 spots – “you either increase the size of the pie slice going to parents, and reduce the slice going to millionaires or skilled workers, or you increase the total size of the pie.”
Tags: Health, immigration, rights
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Tory legacy leaves little to attract women voters
Sunday, April 3rd, 2011
Apr 01 2011
“The whole message that we can’t fund social programs, that there isn’t enough money, is really a direct attack on women and families,”… So what’s going on? Andrea Perrella, director of the Laurier Institute for the Study of Public Opinion and Policy, suggests goal may in fact be to push more men to the right, a direction in which they started heading in the 1990s as traditional gender roles began to change… If men have turned angry in larger numbers, they tend to vote for that party that best articulates anger.
Tags: featured, ideology, rights, standard of living, women
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Tories will never cut income tax rates
Friday, April 1st, 2011
Mar. 31, 2011
To pay for the family cut, other Canadians will have to continue to pay marginal tax rates that are too high. The family tax cut, in some ways, is just another tax expenditure, a special tax treatment aimed at fulfilling some social-policy objective. The major beneficiaries are likely to be higherincome single-earner couples with children. Everybody else is out of luck.
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Ontario’s 3 simple questions
Sunday, March 27th, 2011
Mar 27 2011
Ontario voters should ask all parties… three very simple questions: • Will you ensure that Ontario gets the same deal as Quebec or B.C. or Nova Scotia? • Will you commit to treating Canadians in all provinces equally? • Are you committed to investing in Ontario’s economic transformation — just as surely as you are committed to investing in Atlantic or Western Canada? Principled, equal treatment of Canadians and provinces would return our federal-provincial financial arrangements to a principled footing. They would make Canada stronger. They would reduce divisiveness.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, standard of living
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Fiscal favours are eroding our tax system
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011
Mar 23 2011
… every one of the Conservative budgets since 2006 has announced an array of new subsidies to be delivered through the tax system. Though their individual price tags may seem modest, they add up to a major drain on revenues. This budget alone would reduce federal revenues by almost $300 million per year once the new personal tax credits are fully phased in. It is not easy to justify giving fiscal favours to some groups over others. Doing so erodes one of the most fundamental principles of our tax system: that people in similar circumstances should bear similar tax burdens.
Tags: budget, ideology, tax
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Luxury for the rich but ‘realism’ for the rest of us
Monday, March 21st, 2011
Mar 21 2011
As deficits pile up, we are soon to be inundated with the message that we are living beyond our means and must learn to do with less. Certainly, our small wealthy super-elite seems determined to ensure that nothing gets in the way of its right to fully indulge its greed, and that the burden of deficit-reduction is imposed on others. A conflict appears to be looming therefore between Canada’s elite, typified perhaps by Kevin O’Leary, and the aspirations of millions of Canadians who don’t want to see programs they value — health care, education, pensions — sacrificed to deficit reduction.
Tags: economy, ideology, privatization, standard of living, tax
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Women’s choices not the same as men’s
Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
Mar 15, 2011
What women want is not to benefit from “positive discrimination” policies or from convoluted figures under pay equity acts, but to be hired and compensated because they are the best for the job. What we want is simple. It has been proven over and over that what it takes to improve anyone’s lot on this earth are economic and legal freedoms enabling us to fulfil ourselves to the best of our abilities — nothing more and nothing less.
Tags: economy, ideology, participation, standard of living, women
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Equality for women? We’re not done fighting yet
Friday, March 11th, 2011
Mar. 10, 2011
To be a woman in the 21st century is to live with layers of contradictions. You can be anything you want, until you want to be a mother. You can do anything you want, but make sure you look terrific doing it… some privileged women and men decreed that the fight for equality and against sexism has been won and therefore we western women should all just shut up and stop our whining… Well-behaved women – women who don’t whine – are not the ones who make history or policy. They’re not the ones who got us this far. Take nothing for granted. Equality is never a done deal.
Tags: ideology, participation, rights, standard of living, women
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The modus operandi of the very rich
Friday, March 11th, 2011
Mar. 10, 2011
It is this ability to keep buying and keep building that marks the modus operandi of most of the billionaires on this list. It is perhaps the root of how capitalism works. Put capital to work and it begets more capital… Much has been made in recent years about the growing disparity of incomes and wealth. In the United States, for example, the top 1% of the population holds about 34% of the country’s wealth — defined as assets minus liabilities. The top 10% has about 80%, leaving 20% to the bottom 90% of the population.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology
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A different sort of tax revolt
Thursday, March 10th, 2011
Mar 09 2011
These protesters are not anti-tax. Rather, they are insisting that everyone, including rich individuals and corporations, pay their fair share of taxes… A public debate about taxes is urgently needed because it is fundamentally a discussion about the kind of society we want to live in. Tax policy no longer plays a role in redistributing income and wealth, and economic inequality in Canada has reached levels previously seen only in 1929. The Uncut movement appears to be the beginning of a public discussion…
Tags: featured, ideology, participation, rights, standard of living, tax
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