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Costs of Ontario climate plan would be double Liberal carbon tax, raise household costs: report
Tuesday, June 4th, 2019
The Clean Prosperity report found that the cost of the Ontario plan would be more expensive largely because it would “cherry pick” certain sources of emissions to cut and would cost $334 million in 2022, or $62 per tonne of greenhouse gas emissions removed. The federal plan would cost $214 million in 2022, or $40 per tonne… Economists say economy-wide taxes are the most efficient way to lower greenhouse gas emissions.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, tax
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Carbon tax smackdown: what is this argument really about?
Saturday, May 25th, 2019
… carbon taxes, so far as they raise the prices of things, impose an especially heavy burden on the poor. That would be a real concern, if the federal government were not also providing rebates covering the cost of the tax… The precedent for this was the GST tax credit, which like the carbon tax rebate more than compensates poor families for whatever it adds to the cost of living…
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, Health, ideology, tax
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Universities shine a light on Ontario’s failing schools
Thursday, May 2nd, 2019
… pedagogues K-12 are often in denial of the problem, because they are themselves in thrall to the “self-esteem” zeitgeist… They are giving good grades to work that does not merit it, because of the prevailing “all must have prizes” culture they operate within… two-thirds of university students believe that if they’re “trying hard,” their grades should reflect their effort, not their actual achievement… One-third… felt they deserved a B grade just for attending most of a course’s classes.
Tags: featured, ideology, participation, youth
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Canadian study identifies five most vulnerable groups for FASD
Wednesday, May 1st, 2019
The study identified five high-prevalence groups: children in care; people in correctional service custody; people in special education services; people using specialized services for developmental disabilities or psychiatric care; and Indigenous populations. The study was designed to help improve prevalence estimates and predictions with an eye to better public policy, and to allow for better planning and budgeting of health care, community and social services response.
Tags: child care, corrections, disabilities, Health, Indigenous, mental Health, poverty, women, youth
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‘A Broken System’: Adoptive Families Say Child Welfare Agencies Are Failing On Fasd
Monday, April 29th, 2019
In Canada, child welfare is a provincial responsibility and there is no national data on FASD among kids in care. But research published in 2014 on Alberta, Manitoba and Ontario found a prevalence rate three to four times higher than estimates for children in the general population. Broader research on child welfare systems across North America suggest the prevalence of FASD could be as high as 17 per cent… Respite options also tend to be crisis-oriented.
Tags: child care, disabilities, mental Health, youth
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Ontario’s health system needs change. But has Ford got it right?
Friday, April 26th, 2019
In the next layer, you will find 10 public-health organizations, down from 35, and 10 ambulance organizations, down from 59. One might have thought that these 10 new service areas might have been married up with 10 health regions, but alas, no… it’s still a simpler structure than what it replaced. What’s not yet known is how the Ford health-care regime will work in real life and how it will get local health professionals to work together.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, mental Health, participation
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Why The Most Common Developmental Disability In Canada Is Misdiagnosed Or Missed — And The Devastating Results
Friday, April 26th, 2019
There is no cure for FASD, but early intervention can offer critical strategies for symptoms ranging from mild speech and memory deficits to severe cognitive delays… Both FASD advocates and medical researchers are now trying to make sense of what’s been standing in the way of early detection and treatment — and whether emerging science might offer new solutions.
Tags: corrections, disabilities, ideology, mental Health, youth
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What people are getting wrong about this entire silly affair [SNC-Lavalin]
Friday, April 5th, 2019
… the option to Canadian prosecutors to impose a fine rather than lay a criminal charge is legitimate and sensible and the media and opposition should stop referring to it as a sleazy, partisan escape hatch for the naughty corporate friends of the Liberal Party… The argument that Trudeau had no right to review the case is spurious: he has an absolute obligation to discharge the duties of his office.
Tags: crime prevention, economy, globalization, ideology, rights
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Canada sees 300,000 new immigrants — the largest influx in a century
Saturday, March 23rd, 2019
The increase in international migration has helped fuel a surge in employment — even amid sluggish indicators in other parts of the economy…It’s been a welcome tailwind for an economy coping with aging demographics and other drags like record household debt… The strong immigration numbers also make up for slower natural population growth.
Tags: economy, immigration, multiculturalism, participation
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What Canadians need to know about the SNC-Lavalin affair
Friday, March 22nd, 2019
It is important to remind Canadians that the justice committee is not a court. We are neither a tryer of fact or a jury… We need to formulate clear rules as to appropriate interactions with the attorney-general as relates to prosecutions and remediation agreement considerations.
Tags: crime prevention, rights
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