Five controversial lessons to cure health care from Jane Philpott
Wednesday, December 4th, 2024
Her goal in writing Health for All is to ensure “every person living in Canada has access to a primary care home, in the same way that every child has access to a public school.” But she acknowledges that it will require a transformation that challenges current thinking, practices and interests… 1. The federal government has a role in public health care, despite complaints from the provinces… 3. Phase out fee-for-service payments and put doctors on salary…
Tags: featured, Health, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, mental Health, participation
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Canadian CEO pay breaks all records, reflecting a new Gilded Age for Canada’s rich: report
Wednesday, January 17th, 2024
In 2022, the average worker in Canada got an average pay raise of $1,800, or three per cent. But, prices went up by 6.8 per cent in 2022… This report proposes that governments address the rampant income inequality between the rich and the rest of us through four taxation measures that both disincentivize extreme CEO compensation and redistribute CEOs’ extreme income to Canadians on the lower end of the income spectrum.
Tags: economy, standard of living, tax
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“Not broken, just underfunded”: for-profit care won’t reduce wait times, CCPA report says
Wednesday, November 15th, 2023
“Ontario does not lack the physical space and equipment to improve wait times for surgeries and medical imaging; what is missing is the health care workforce and funding necessary to do the work.” … Ontario is set to repeat the mistakes of Alberta, a province that saw wait times increase and total surgical volumes decline as public funding and staffing were diverted into investor-owned centres.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, privatization
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Alternative Federal Budget 2024 – Building Momentum: A budget for now and the future
Monday, August 28th, 2023
The AFB will tax extreme wealth by introducing a progressive wealth tax… restore the corporate income tax rate… to 20 per cent… [and] implement a windfall profits tax… Canadians really can have nice things – if we make our tax system more progressive and make smart investments in public services, income supports, and social and physical infrastructure.
Tags: child care, featured, Health, housing, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living, tax
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CERB: More than just an income program
Friday, June 16th, 2023
The introduction of emergency pandemic benefits offers a unique opportunity to examine important questions about Canada’s current income security safety net and how it works (or does not) to support individuals in their efforts to achieve greater economic security and enhanced well-being.
Tags: economy, ideology, participation, standard of living
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No Strings Attached: Canada’s health care deal lacks key conditions
Friday, February 17th, 2023
… despite provincial ad campaigns that show destitute doctors and nurses begging for federal funding, the question of who is responsible for the crisis in Canadian health care is not so clear cut. Health care is a provincial jurisdiction and the big provinces are flush with cash. It’s not money stopping them from fixing their systems, it’s political will.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living
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Where are your inflation dollars going? Inflation broken down by profit, wages and industry
Tuesday, January 24th, 2023
The data is clear—the largest driver of inflation is corporate profits… Of every dollar spent on higher prices in the last two years, 47 cents was converted into corporate profits in four industries, led by mining, oil and gas extraction, explains a new report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).
Tags: economy, standard of living, tax
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Canadian CEO pay soars to a new all-time high due to inflation: report
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2023
They now make 243 times more than the average worker wage in Canada… While inflation hurts workers, it’s great for corporate profit that have hit historic highs. When profits go up, executive bonuses are driven way up… This report proposes four policy solutions for governments to address this rampant income inequality between the rich and the rest of us through taxation measures…
Tags: featured, ideology, standard of living, tax
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Alternative Federal Budget 2023: Rising to the challenge
Thursday, September 22nd, 2022
… The ongoing impact of Covid-19, inflation gnawing at stagnant paycheques, a health care system squeezed to the limit, the climate crisis, and the ongoing need to dismantle colonialism and systemic racism… The AFB advances solutions and places the responsibility for change squarely on the federal government, working with the provinces and territories, to rise to the challenge…
Tags: budget, child care, economy, featured, Health, ideology, Indigenous, mental Health, poverty, standard of living
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Alternative Federal Budget 2022
Tuesday, November 9th, 2021
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ Alternative Federal Budget (AFB), now in its 26th year, calls for urgent policy priorities that would ensure a publicly led, inclusive pandemic recovery… Among the key issues in the AFB: implementing universal public child care, reforming Canada’s income security system, addressing the housing crisis, strengthening and expanding the existing health care system, stewarding a just transition away from the oil and gas economy, and moving foward on reconciliation.
Tags: budget, child care, economy, featured, Health, housing, ideology, Indigenous, poverty, standard of living
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