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Three Amigos must revive the spirit of NAFTA
We need a more coherent negotiating strategy on trade. Just think how much better we would be as a united force using the highly integrated nature of our three economies, the human capital of almost 500-million people and our abundance of resources such as energy and agriculture as leverage to contend with China and other major economies… We should address shared concerns about environmental and climate change issues without jeopardizing the economic interest of any one partner.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, standard of living
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Harper finally gets it right on aboriginal education
The name of the new bill, “First Nations Control of First Nations Education Act,” signalled Ottawa’s acceptance that First Nations have authority over the education of their children… It came with a specific financial commitment… It empowered First Nations to incorporate their languages and culture into the curriculum… [but] The core funding… won’t flow until 2016-17.
Tags: budget, featured, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, rights, standard of living
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Experts say Conservatives have plenty of alternatives to income splitting
If the Conservatives want to provide tax relief for more families with children, there are some alternatives… Increase the universal child care benefit, which gives $100 a month to families with children under six… a national child-care program would cost about the same as the income-splitting plan, which is estimated at upwards of $2.5 billion a year.
Tags: budget, ideology, standard of living, tax
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Alan Borovoy, the man who was right
Over the course of the past few decades’ most divisive and closely contested struggles for civil rights and social justice in Canada… Alan Borovoy, best known for his 40-year role as general counsel for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association… [has published] a surprisingly elegant cross-genre fusion of legal history, political analysis and riveting memoir…
Tags: ideology, multiculturalism, participation, rights, standard of living
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Family income splitting: A costly perk for the rich?
Such a move would be costly in terms of lost government revenues, will increase rather than diminish family income inequality, and is bad social policy… 86 per cent of families would get no benefit at all, and that 60 per cent of the benefits would go to the richest 5 per cent of families… family income splitting would cost about $3-billion a year in forgone federal government revenues, and about $2-billion more if the provinces followed suit.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, standard of living, tax, women
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Marxism’s back, baby
As interconnected global markets get ever more interconnected, average incomes are converging. The last 10 years have seen developing countries grow far more rapidly than high-income countries, closing the gap in average incomes…. this means within the space of a generation, a good chunk of the world will soon be solidly middle class — and inequality within nations will return as the dominant source of global inequality… But that doesn’t mean the elite should breathe easily.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, participation, standard of living
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Ontario’s economic woes worry the West
Ontario fell into the ranks of Canada’s have-not provinces (joining the Maritimes, Quebec and Manitoba) four years ago; the result of a 20-year decline in its manufacturing sector followed by a punishing recession. Its loss of tax revenue made it eligible for equalization, a federal transfer program designed to ensure that Canadians in all parts of the country have comparable levels of public service… Revising the program to reflect current conditions may be messy, disruptive and fraught with difficulty. But that’s how federations stay fair.
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The Undeserving Rich
Since the late 1970s real wages for the bottom half of the work force have stagnated or fallen, while the incomes of the top 1 percent have nearly quadrupled (and the incomes of the top 0.1 percent have risen even more)… You almost never see apologists for inequality willing to talk about the 1 percent, let alone the really big winners. Instead, they talk about the top 20 percent, or at best the top 5 percent. These may sound like innocent choices, but they’re not…
Tags: economy, ideology, privatization, standard of living
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The Populist Imperative
“The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.” John Maynard Keynes wrote that in 1936, but it applies to our own time… soaring inequality helped set the stage for our economic crisis, and… the highly unequal distribution of income since the crisis has perpetuated the slump… high unemployment… has become a major source of rising inequality and stagnating incomes
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Davos 2014: There’s only one way to close the wealth gap
There is no big new idea, innovation or development, as there has been in the past, to galvanise Western business into a fresh wave of job- and income-boosting investment. In the Nineties, it was the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the end of the Cold War. Later, it was turbocharged globalisation, the internet and the wider tech revolution. Yet today, these things seem only to be part of the problem, steadily eroding jobs and incomes, and further entrenching perceived bastions of privilege and entitlement.
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